Synonyms for choosing

Beauty must be the first law of life to the sex that has not the privilege of choosing.

He was a gentle soul, and she had always been able to guide him in paths of her own choosing.

She gave him no answer; it, was as if she were choosing words.

Choosing among them, he presently found a sapling to his liking.

God says, 'Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil, and choosing the good.'

For a messenger some of them thought of choosing one Old Good Deed.

Of course it must be understood that she was choosing the subject.

I must say, Godmother, that you have strange taste in choosing friends.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

So that sometimes it is a case of choosing the lesser of two evils, and choosing immediately.