The young lady had many suitors but preferred the company of a young man from the East, sent to Louisiana on business.

"Most ladies prefer to choose their own husbands."

"When your lady prefers your arm to leather, you'll find you've changed your mind on that."

"Single ladies usually prefer one of the small extra bedrooms upstairs in the main house," he says.

In the early nineties, the slogan was turned around as "The lady prefers Hanes".

Some ladies prefer their desserts small, you know, and it does pack a powerful punch.

The young lady will prefer not to return until the body of the deceased has been removed to the mortuary.

I think the ladies would prefer some privacy.

All were young but ugly; his lady preferred her servants so, he knew, to heighten by contrast her own beauty.

'The lady prefers not to have us reveal any details, only to say that she is doing this out of love for her late husband,' he said.