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Use allow in a sentence

Sentences starting with allow

Allow me again to thank you for this magnificent reception, and bid you farewell. [7]
Allow no one to enlist colored troops, except upon orders from you, or from here through you. [7]
Allow no one to assume the functions of confiscating property, under the law of Congress, or otherwise, except upon orders from here. [7]
Allow me to thank you for this splendid reception, and I now bid you farewell. [7]
Allow me--I will run my eye through it. [5]
Allow me to remain with Prince Bagration's detachment. [2]
Allow me to present to you--Colonel Sevier. [9]
Allow me to present to you, Major, Mr. David Ritchie. [9]
Allow me to occupy your time a moment with what he said. [7]
Allow me to make you acquainted with Mr. Widgeon of Hull. [9]

Sentences ending with allow

At first I was for talking with them, but this Dorothy would not allow. [9]
I was willing to make almost any sacrifice rather than offend him, but this I could not allow. [9]
Sometimes we're going to have a delicate little landscape like this, and sometimes we're going to have an indelicate little figure, or as much so as the law will allow. [8]
Keraunus responded to their morning greetings with nods as friendly as Arsinoe's tongs, which held his head tightly by the hair, would allow. [10]
These descriptions do really state the truth--as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. [5]
I mean to put a case no stronger than the truth will allow. [7]
At least we ourselves are, so far as the difficulties of life allow. [10]
Leaving Farrar and one of Mr. Cooke's friends to take care of the yacht, the rest of us went ashore, built a roaring fire and raised a tent, and proceeded to make ourselves as comfortable as circumstances would allow. [9]
This one makes it sing mighty small, I'm willing to allow. [5]
Egyptology, on the contrary, not only attracted me but permitted me to devote my whole strength to it so far as my health would allow. [10]

Short sentences using allow

Will you allow me? [10]
Allow yourself some latitude. [11]
Do not allow it. [7]
We can't allow it. [5]
I won't allow it. [2]
Allow me to convey...." "No! [2]
Allow me to continue. [5]
I can not allow this. [5]
You must not allow it. [7]

Sentences containing allow two or more times

However, on our way to invite the others, I said: "You must allow me to have these friends come; and you must also allow me to pay the costs. [5]
I appoint the Members myself, and they can't help themselves, because I don't allow them to vote on their own appointment and I don't allow them to resign! [5]
There was a brisk wind blowing from the south--he must allow for that; but the wind was stopped somewhat in its course by the Perch Rock--he must allow for that. [11]

More example sentences with the word allow in them

When the fiery youth had performed the task which now claimed all his powers, he hoped to find him more inclined to allow himself to be led farther along the path which he had entered. [10]
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived by him. [10]
Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
Mr Witherden, Sir, your handkerchief is hanging out of your pocket--would you allow me to--, As Mr Brass advanced to remedy this accident, the Notary shrunk from him with an air of disgust. [12]
An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
Glaucus proposes for your choice that you should either allow me to conduct you to his wife or return to the temple to which you are attached. [10]
We shall telegraph Young's Hotel for rooms Saturday night, in order to allow for a low average of pedestrianism. [5]
Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
I trust that you will allow me to add that I have learned from my daughter to respect and admire you. [9]
We cannot allow you to resign until things shall be a little more settled in East Tennessee. [7]
So I beg you to allow me to return to Rome. [10]
The sleep that you know so well how to give to others, you scarcely allow to visit you. [10]
I shall allow you a small pension. [11]
In these circumstances would policy allow her to consider us? [5]
The loyal people would not sustain or allow it. [7]
But this he would not allow, and as he seemed pleased to have her there, she remained, busying herself with her work. [12]
And Caracalla?--No, she would not allow the contentment which filled her to be troubled by a thought of him. [10]
It restores--" Virginie would not allow him to go on. [11]
Still the matron would not allow herself to be persuaded, and after the chief priest had been called away to the service of the god, Euryale reproved her sister-in-law for her too great zeal. [10]
But if you would like to defeat Buchanan and his gang, allow me a word with you: Does any one pretend that Fillmore can carry the vote of this State? [7]
If my conscience would allow me to make a change, but that is out of the question. [5]
Though Thyone might wonder that a man pursued by Nemesis could allow himself to be borne along so thoughtlessly by the stream of pleasure, Daphne certainly did not grudge him the festal season which, when it had passed, could never return to the blind artist. [10]
She must allow Wolf to restore peace to Dona Magdalena's troubled mind. [10]
But everything connected with those two is so base and shameful that I will not allow it to cloud this pleasant hour. [10]
He warned her, with special earnestness, not to allow herself to be used by others to win favour or pardon for themselves or their kindred. [10]
And he hoped, with an admixture of anxiety such as he had never known before, that the painter's demeanor would be such as should allow him to show mercy. [10]
I do not wish to dwell at great length on this branch of the subject at this time, but allow me to repeat one thing that I have stated before. [7]
I hope Mr. Wilson will soon allow me to dispense with the nurse; she is well enough, no doubt, but somewhat too obsequious; and not, I should think, to be much trusted; yet I was obliged to trust her in some things. [14]
As your aunt will have you until you are married, which, I may say, without denying your attractions, is likely to be for some time, I intend to write to her to-night--with your consent--and ask her to allow you to remain with me all summer. [9]
For to-day we will close the temple gates, solemnize the festival among ourselves, and allow no one to enter our precincts for sacrifice and prayer till the fate of the sisters is made certain. [10]
This once I will allow you to go to the field without a wife. [10]
I hope you will allow me to say that your guild, when you take the conventional, you have got it at second-hand. [5]
And going the whole figure, I have no doubt, would be more popular with some thoughtless people than that which has been done, But I cannot assume this reckless position, nor allow others to assume it on my responsibility. [7]
But this, Martin, who was only intent upon loading the return ship with "his phantastical gold," opposed, and Nelson did not think he had authority to allow it, unless they would bind themselves to pay the hire of the ships. [4]
He it was who arranged with my creditors to allow me to roam the face of the earth for four years and persecute the nations thereof with lectures, promising that at the end of four years I would pay dollar for dollar. [5]
Woe to those who allow themselves to be tempted on board by the magnificence of its decorations! [10]
The length to which this paper has extended does not allow me to enter into the consideration of this most important subject. [3]
He must decide whether I dare allow thee to await the return of the Persian prince, or whether I must entreat thee to forget him and become the domestic wife of a Greek husband. [10]
In the shadows where his nature dwelt now he would not allow her good innocence and truth to enter. [11]
If the patient were brought into a warm room, heat would be applied very rapidly, were not something interposed to prevent this, and allow its gradual admission. [3]
This knightly patrician well knew--as did every lover of horses--the owner of the finest stable in Alexandria, and was quite willing to allow Gorgo and Apuleius to remain with their patient; at the same time he warned them that a great catastrophe was imminent. [10]
For all that, we know there is a school of writers who will not allow that Pope deserves the name of poet. [6]
And even if we had the disposition to name them, in order to fill up a gap when we were short of ideas and arguments, our magazines would not allow us to do it, because they think that such words sully their pages. [5]
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. [5]
Then, if ever, we allow ourselves to go out to others in sympathy expressed by gifts and good wishes. [4]
But why should we allow him to pay that out of his private pocket? [5]
Dear old darling, we all think the creditors are going to allow us to resume business; and if they do we shall pull through and pay the debts. [5]
This fact it was, which more than anything else, convinced me that by plan and plot I was purposely made powerless in Mr. Winters' hands, and that he did not mean to allow me that advantage of being afoot, which he possessed. [5]
How acutely he was suffering could be seen in his drawn mouth and sad eyes, but he would not allow himself to be interrupted, often as the abbess and the gardener entreated him to lay aside the stylus. [10]
But while she was still searching hastily for another he returned the first, saying: "I understand only too well your reluctance to allow such confidential effusions to play the part of defender. [10]
But Emperor Charles was not the man to allow matters which aroused his wrath and strong disapproval to pass unpunished. [10]
Mrs. Midas Goldenrod was not a bad woman, but she loved and hated in too exclusive and fastidious a way to allow us to consider her as representing the highest ideal of womanhood. [6]
As the wind was every moment increasing, the skipper sheered away to allow plenty of sea-room between the boats. [4]
But, as it was a fair presumption that most colonial gentlemen made a visit home at least once in their lives, I did not allow the dust to get into my eyes. [9]
If you can wait till then--I mean without discomfort, without inconvenience--it will be a large accommodation to me; but I will not allow you to do this favor if it will discommode you. [5]
She did not vouchsafe them a word, yet neither did she allow any of them to render her even the most trivial service. [10]
But at his vehement shout, "I will not allow it! [10]
Bekleshev and Theodore Uvarov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, as the guest of honor, to enter first. [2]
I have learned utterly to distrust them, and never allow them to bully me out of a thought or line. [6]
But gentlemen, let us beware how we allow mere human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity, to influence us at a moment so solemn as this. [5]
So you give up your trains of thought, capitulate to necessity, and manage to lug in some kind of allusion, in place or out of place, which will allow you to make use of bars. [6]
Once he plucked up courage and said imploringly as he went close up to the Emperor: "Go down earlier to-night my lord; you really do not allow yourself enough rest and will injure your health. [10]
But it seemed ungallant to allow a woman to put herself to so much trouble for me, and so I said: "It is not worth while, madam. [5]
I hold myself under constitutional obligations to allow the people in all the States, without interference, direct or indirect, to do exactly as they please; and I deny that I have any inclination to interfere with them, even if there were no such constitutional obligation. [7]
No, for his uncle would not allow that--he was all-powerful and could and would crush such a movement, of course. [5]
You must not try to resign, for the laws of the Club do not allow that. [5]
The men who treasure their dead for thousands of years, and would rather lose their last loaf than allow a single bone belonging to one of their ancestors to be taken from them, are not constant, they are foolish. [10]
On returning to town Dr. Courtenay had begged her mother to allow her at the assemblies, a request which Mrs. [9]
On the side toward the room the curtains were drawn back far enough to allow those who were permitted to approach the regent to see her head and the upper portion of her body, which was wrapped in an ermine cape. [10]
It would be too humiliating to allow the same hand that had smitten her so ruthlessly to uplift her to heaven; it would be treason against herself. [10]
I think I told you she had a prostrating week of tonsilitis a month ago; she has remained very feeble ever since, and confined to the bed of course, but we allow ourselves to believe she will regain the lost ground in another month. [5]
He exposed himself to the sun too much yesterday, but since it came of his earnest desire to learn, and to make this journey as useful as the opportunities will allow, no one seeks to discourage him by fault-finding. [5]
But allow me to suggest that you should avoid speaking of this; for it probably would induce some of your friends in like manner to cast their votes. [7]
Did you happen to remember that though he does not allow that he is deaf, he will not deny that he does not hear quite so well as he used to? [6]
Don't allow yourself to regret your generosity, friend Lienhard. [10]
If Lowell cares to read this letter, will you allow me to "make it over to him jointly," as Captain Cuttle says. [6]
But to return to myself, if you will allow me; if I am so fortunate as to win Miss Debree's love, I have no fear that she would not win the hearts of all my family. [4]
However, in order to keep up the spirits of the Fisher family, the Auditor concluded to go back and allow interest from the date of the first petition (1832) to the date when the bill of damages was awarded. [5]
Try to contribute to it all that your capacities allow you achieve. [10]
When Sabina represented to him what a large outlay these new measures would entail, he replied: "We do not allow the veterans to perish who placed their lives, and limbs at the service of the state. [10]
She had stood to him a second time as a model for his work, had spoken to him many times, and when last they parted had promised to allow him this very evening to study once more the folds of her mantle. [10]
I'll allow you to cry, laugh and scream for joy as much as you will, but you're forbidden to ask a single question until I have finished. [10]
If she ceased to care for life, she could allow death to take her, just as we dream ourselves asleep. [10]
Don't allow yourself to believe any such nonsense as that. [5]
However, I seem to be going counter to my own Private Philosophy--which Livy won't allow me to publish--because it would destroy me. [5]
Now allow me to assure you that no word or intimation from that rebel army, or from any of the men controlling it, in relation to any peace compromise, has ever come to my knowledge or belief. [7]
Is it best to allow the bridge to stand? [5]
I am willing to allow my history and action for the last twenty years to speak for themselves as to my political principles and my fidelity to political obligations. [7]
He asked Fulbert to allow him to call. [5]
We couldn't bear to allow anybody to help in this service, so we two stood watch-and-watch, day in and day out. [5]
At the same time my conscience will not allow me to--. [5]
To the elder this was always the pleasantest hour of the day; but now Philippus would hardly allow himself more than just time enough to eat, even at their principal evening meal. [10]
What do you think--would it not be right to pour out half a cup of wine to the gods, and allow ourselves the other half? [10]
In a way, they will be her own; for, no matter which member of her clerical staff shall furnish the explanations, not a line of them will she ever allow to be printed until she shall have approved it, accepted it, copyrighted it, cabbaged it. [5]
I took care, therefore, to allow sufficient time in Liverpool, before sailing for home, to meet such friends, old and recent, as cared to make or renew acquaintance with me. [6]
He don't allow them to have but two hacks now, and sometimes only one. [5]
After disclosing to them his desire to allow the judges to decide and, should the verdict go against Biberli, release him from punishment by a pardon, both undertook to justify the absence of the accused from the trial. [10]
But or cross-examination their counsel would not allow them to tell whose week of power the current week was. [5]
The Vekeel, like the Persian lovers, did not allow the heat of the day to interfere with his plans. [10]
No matter if the object of this kind wish is a centenarian, it is quite safe to assume that he is ready and very willing to accept as many more years as the disposing powers may see fit to allow him. [6]

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