Such a sequence is therefore indicated preferentially in the Estimate Form, and next discussed.
"Sound Military Decision"
U.s. Naval War College
There was about his manner, methods, gestures, voice, a species of nervous force, the product of restlessness rather than vitality, which attracted the sort of persons to whom he specially appealed, when they had nothing better to do, and held them, if not so firmly as the music-hall and theatrical performances which they preferentially patronised, still, with a sufficient share of interest.
"A Second Coming"
Richard Marsh
They build, so far as I know, always in holes, in trees, rocks, and walls, preferentially in the latter.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume