Were such low houses suddenly put down, what an outcry would be raised of favouritism, tyranny, and so on!
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
It is done to some extent by a kind of, I can hardly call it favouritism, but there are houses in England that if they begin to buy from one party, they will not afterwards buy from another.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
But, until the moment when old and dying, he placed himself in the strong hands of his natural daughter, Charles Edward seems to have been, however obstinate in his favouritism, incapable of any real affection.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)