A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon PoetryNumber of occurrences in corpus: 14
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 865 | now a sacred prayer. / Whoever | preferred | to proclaim the Lord’s prai |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 550 | ne Christ, / thinking that they | preferred | the worship of a terrifying s |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 778 | home. / An unfaithful relative | preferred | to fool this innocent man / by |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1683 | virgin’s undefiled heart , / | preferred | that this virgin should give |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1800 | ally / and that as a virgin she | preferred | to spurn a bridegroom’s bed |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2072 | lays, / and, being uncorrupted, | preferred | to serve the High King / rather |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2390 | in a great seething mass, / now | preferred | to abandon the city poisoned |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2397 | dy slaughter, so long as they | preferred | to believe in Christ. / When th |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 311 | readful torments. / [Cuthbert] | preferred | to go himself; they undertook |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 644 | desert of his hermitage, / he | preferred | rather to be assailed by the |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 896 | . / Thus although the holy man | preferred | his last words to be private, |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 59 | eted his fourteenth year, / he | preferred | to escape from the harsh furi |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1055 | ing to keep his keel unmoved, / | preferred | to abandon the lofty arroganc |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 217 | y darkness. / But almighty God | preferred | swiftly to destroy the guilty |