She cowered away from him, favoring her hurt wrist.
By giving the king the ecclesiastical patronage they not only made a docile instrument of him, but endowed him with a mine of wealth, even more productive than the sale of offices, and a power of favoring and rewarding that transformed a needy and ill-obeyed king into an absolute monarch.
She'd survived another time, but she couldn't count on fate favoring her much longer, not when madness had begun to take its hold of her.
He wasn't able to track the Others, a set of creatures known for favoring the Black God's dominance of the human world.
It may be that in particular cases particular modes of cultivation disfavour the host; or that the soil, climate or seasons do so; but overwhelming evidence exists to show that the principal causes of epidemics reside in circumstances which favor the spread, nutrition and reproduction of the pest, and the lesson to be learnt is, that precautions against the establishment of such favoring conditions must be sought.
