would sooner

Being pro-life is all fun and games until you realize the movement would sooner endorse witchcraft over science, apparently.

She would sooner have cut off her hand than oppose her, but she could not cast herself on her neck as she often wished to do.

If those who are going to go in for our hateful business only knew what it really was they would sooner be chambermaids.

I felt that Alla would sooner or later urge me on to be the humble means of a retributive justice overtaking him.

This was especially hated; and some of the boys declared that they would sooner leave than submit to it.

Look then I do not commit madness; I suppose ye would sooner have me indifferent, than desperate.