Favour in example sentence
He said to himself, like his master Tartuffe, whose part he knew by heart:'I might suppose these words an honest artifice Nay, I shall not believe so flattering a speech Unless some favour shown by her for whom I sigh Assure me that they mean all that they might imply.'(Tartuffe, Act IV, Scene V)'Tartuffe also was ruined by a woman, and he was as good a man as most ...My answer may be shewn ... a mishap for which we find this remedy,' he went on, pronouncing each word slowly, and in accents of restrained ferocity, 'we begin it by quoting the strongest expressions from the letter of the sublime Mathilde.