preferred

The restaurant was not so showy or pretentious as the one further down Broadway, which he always preferred, but it was nearly so.

As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked.

I asked her to go into the ladies’ waiting room, but she informed me gravely that she preferred to stay outside.

Anne would have infinitely preferred a whipping to this punishment under which her sensitive spirit quivered as from a whiplash.