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Sentences ending with allowance

In regard to the water, however, I think we have got ten days' supply at our present rate of allowance. [5]
And for all the things that these men did--Fielding Bey and Donovan Pasha--they got naught but an Egyptian ribbon to wear on the breast and a laboured censure from the Administration for overrunning the budget allowance. [11]
I should think that was a pretty liberal allowance. [6]
Yet my father sent him his annual allowance. [10]
There are not quite so many "awfuls" and "awfullys" as one expects to find in young ladies' letters, but there are two "weirds," which may be considered a fair allowance. [6]
It would be difficult to find a pleasanter traveling party one that shook off more readily the artificial restraints of Puritanic strictness, and took the world with good-natured allowance. [5]
After paying father's debts, we've come out here with only a few thousand dollars, and the nine hundred I saved out of this year's Law School allowance. [9]

Sentences containing allowance two or more times

Sir William at once said that he would give him a liberal allowance, with, of course, the run of his own stables and their house in town: and when he married acceptably, his allowance would be doubled. [11]

More example sentences with the word allowance in them

I therefore beg you to make allowance for the circumstances in which I have been by surprise brought before you. [7]
Miss Cynthia, to whom Myrtle made a generous allowance, had gone to live in a town not many miles distant, where she had a kind of home on sufferance, as well as at The Poplars. [6]
I know not what your allowance may be. [9]
I know very well that she can live on a small allowance, but I am not so sure about myself. [5]
But the point we wish to make is that neither society nor the law makes any allowance for the aberrations of human nature caused by dull and unpleasant weather. [4]
Mr. Hopkins was treated to the full allowance of time, as being introduced by Professor Gridley. [6]
Now after making this allowance, the truth remained that if I could find out something about a castle before ringing the door-bell--I mean hailing the warders--it was the sensible thing to do. [5]
As to strength, the woman's righters believed that, weight for weight, their crew was as strong as the other, and of course due allowance would be made for the difference of weight and all other accidental hindrances. [6]
I am confident that land can be made to produce for Mother at least $30 a year, and I can not, to oblige any living person, consent that she shall be put on an allowance of sixteen dollars a year. [7]
They had but ten days' short allowance of food; the long-boat was towing the others; they could not depend on making any sort of definite progress in the doldrums, and they had four or five hundred miles of doldrums in front of them yet. [5]
This should be taken with allowance, for doubtless there is more or less brag about it. [5]
Public opinion made some allowance for frailties in other professions; in the ministry, none: he would be committing himself to be good the rest of his life, and that seemed too vast an undertaking for any human. [9]
Under date of September 7th he says that the Council demanded a larger allowance for themselves and for some of the sick, their favorites, which he declined to give without their warrants as councilors. [4]
Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled. [2]
When he considered on what a spare allowance of food she lived, how neglected and untaught she was, and how her natural cunning had been sharpened by necessity and privation, he scarcely doubted it. [12]
Whoever erects a new house has a yearly allowance of corn, and in order to attract folks of our stamp--of whom he cannot get enough--he promises entire exemption from taxation to all sculptors, architects, and even to skilled laborers. [10]
She spends no money but her usual year's allowance, and she spends nearly every cent of that on other people. [5]
This was to make fair allowance for winter storms and snows, and other unavoidable causes of detention. [5]
He had a little money of his own, left by an uncle of his mother, and he had also an allowance from his mother--none from his father--and he was satisfied with life. [11]
There was a liberal allowance of pretty waterfalls, too, on the Te^te Noir route. [5]
Even with this liberal allowance of pastime a great part of the colony still sulked. [4]
What with one job and another, there's lodging--and good lodging too--pretty well all the year round, rent free, and a weekly allowance besides, Kit, that would provide her with a great many comforts she don't at present enjoy. [12]
Even Henry, who is naturally a good water-drinker, can save half of his allowance from time to time, when I cannot. [5]
Party bias may help to make it appear so, but with all the allowance I can make for such bias, it still does appear to me that just such, and from just such necessity, is the President's struggle in this case. [7]
Manners from my heart, and made every allowance for her talk with me, knowing the sorrow of her life. [9]
Stephen remembered that he had something over nine hundred dollars in his pocket (which he had saved out of his last year's allowance at the Law School). [9]
A piece of ground large enough to furnish bread-root for ten persons is allotted to each head of a household, allowance being made for the possible increase of families. [6]
The trees were farther up than he had estimated, though he had from long habit made allowance for the deceiving nature of distances in that country. [13]
It was evident enough that her pitiful allowance did not proceed from the Emperor's avarice; Charles only wished to force her to obey his wish to shut her for the rest of her life in a cloister. [10]
Despite Count Bezukhov's enormous wealth, since he had come into an income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him an allowance of ten thousand rubles. [2]
We know the effect of damp weather upon rheumatics, and of the east wind upon gouty subjects, but too little allowance is made for the influence of weather upon the spirits and the conduct of men. [4]
If there be different reasons for making an allowance to Vermont, let them be presented and considered. [7]
A pearl or diamond necklace or a blushing bouquet excuses the liberal allowance of undisguised nature. [6]
It varies from day to day, and expert allowance has to be made in sighting every time it is fired. [11]
It changed every day in the year; consequently the amount of the daily variation had to be ciphered out and allowance made for it, else the mariner would go utterly astray. [5]
The United States consul-general at Havana was consequently instructed to confer with the consul of France on this point, and they have determined that the sum of $9,500 is an equitable allowance under the circumstances. [7]
While it appears by the letter that no reimbursement of expenses or compensation was promised him, I submit whether reasonable allowance should not be made him for them. [7]
He despised her, but he could make allowance for her. [11]
Of course I am not the most impartial judge; yet, with due allowance for this, I venture to hope that the article entitled "The President's Policy" will be of value to the country. [7]
You must make allowance, Miss Eschelle, for a person from the country. [4]
She had an allowance from the first. [9]
Still, making due allowance for this, I am yet unwilling to stand upon it as an entirely sufficient explanation of the great disparity. [7]
It makes full allowance for other causes besides personal transmission, especially for epidemic influences. [3]

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