Use allowing in a sentence
Sentences starting with allowing
- Allowing them to run three hundred days in the year (which none of them more than do), this makes their work average $1,000 a day. [5]
- Allowing for duplication of membership, these three organizations --according to Mr. Sidney Webb--probably include two fifths of the population of the United Kingdom. [9]
- Allowing for the natural variation of the needle, it was absurdly wrong. [4]
- Allowing that when he first died, he died at the age of 95, he was 151 years old when he died last, in 1864. [5]
More example sentences with the word allowing in them
- As the two whispered to one another and looked tenderly at each other--for Diodoros had insisted on her allowing him to kiss not only her hands but also her sweet red lips--Berenike had pictured her dead daughter in Melissa's place. [10]
- When we had watched long enough to see that Jake was getting along all right and working his signs very good, we loafed along again, allowing to strike the schoolhouse about recess time, which was a three-mile tramp. [5]
- And allowing both these to be true, neither has the remotest affinity to the third new doctrine, that which declares seven eighths of all chronic diseases to be owing to Psora. [3]
- Now, where is the use of allowing all those riches to lie idle, while half of that community hardly know, from day to day, how they are going to keep body and soul together? [5]
- I was allowing the umbrella to remain lost, but the men murmured, and with reason, for in this exposed region we stood in peculiar need of protection against avalanches; so I went into camp and detached a strong party to go after the missing article. [5]
- Do you suppose the noble woman who was the original of that divinely chaste statue felt any scruple about allowing the sculptor to reproduce her pure, unblemished perfections? [6]
- We are in the habit of allowing a certain arrogant assumption to our Roman Catholic brethren. [6]
- Half way down the column was a picture of Mr. Allen, a cut made from a photograph, and, allowing for the crudities of newspaper reproduction, it was a striking likeness of the Celebrity. [9]
- But even allowing the centre of perception to be double, I can see no good reason for supposing this indefinite lengthening of the time, nor any analogy that bears it out. [6]
- So it happened that this time the magistrate was robbed of the little nap which usually followed the meal, and yet, in spite of the best will to yield, he could not do his wife the favour of allowing himself to be convinced. [10]
- It was a tempting creed for shameless men, allowing them to have half a dozen wives or more without regarding it as a sin. [10]
- He has done so much for me, and I did not think I was doing wrong in allowing him to live a few hours longer, that he might. [10]
- Don't think Kirby Smith took Milliken's Bend since, allowing time to get the news to Joe Johnston and from him to Richmond. [7]
- In vain she resolved against allowing herself any society or change of scene until she had accomplished her labour. [14]
- If we now recognize this doctrine by allowing the seceders to go in peace, it is difficult to see what we can do if others choose to go or to extort terms upon which they will promise to remain. [7]
- Not that the powers of the Empire had permitted debates on most subjects, but there could be no harm in allowing the lower House to discuss as fiercely as they pleased dog and sheep laws and hedgehog bounties. [9]
- He kept the peasant families together in the largest groups possible, not allowing the family groups to divide into separate households. [2]
- You see this peaceful way of dealing with it as a wrong, restricting the spread of it, and not allowing it to go into new countries where it has not already existed. [7]
- But Gamaliel went on without allowing himself to be checked. [10]
- Gwendolen was ashamed of herself for allowing her disappointment to so depress her spirits and make her so strangely and profoundly miserable; but feeling ashamed of herself didn't improve the matter any; it only seemed to aggravate the suffering. [5]
- To the governor's mind it was dangerous allowing me freedom, a man convicted of crime, who had been imprisoned, had been a mutineer, had stolen one of his majesty's ships, and had fled to the Caribbean Sea. [11]
- And I have met the objection that they have no share in the enterprise by allowing them, on favourable terms, to acquire stock in the company. [9]
- This time the loquacious man was allowing the Bishop of Arras to speak, and Barbara listened to his words and the councillor's answers with eager attention. [10]
- Edith made a little calculation that on a flush average of ninety cents a week earned, and allowing so many cents for coal and so many cents for oil, the margin for bread and tea must be small for the month. [4]
- Meantime that other lawyer got up excited and began to protest against allowing new witnesses to be brought into the case at this late stage. [5]
- If she delayed it, she would be making him guilty of a fresh crime by allowing two blameless men to perish in misery. [10]
- Just the same is done by a concourse of people, allowing those who do not take a direct part in the activity to devise considerations, justifications, and surmises concerning their collective activity. [2]
- The high officials in his train bowed down nearly to the ground, allowing their arms to hang loosely at their sides. [10]
- This justified me in allowing you to eat the quince with her; this induces me now to entrust to you, without fear, what I have always looked upon as a sacred pledge committed to my keeping. [10]
- Beside a beautiful image which he treasured in the sanctuary of his memories, only allowing his mind to dwell upon it in his happiest hours, sought to intrude. [10]
- So communing with himself, Huck stepped out and glided along behind the men, cat-like, with bare feet, allowing them to keep just far enough ahead not to be invisible. [5]
- But Mr. Browne had no intention of allowing her to do so if he could help it. [9]
- Not until, far from allowing herself to be softened, she, too, threatened him, did he attempt to escape, but both litters were in his way, and when he had successfully passed around them the gardener, suddenly emerging from the darkness, seized him. [10]
- He visited the Foundling Hospital and, allowing the orphans saved by him to kiss his white hands, graciously conversed with Tutolmin. [2]
- For his part, even allowing the Senator to be guilty, he did not think his continued presence during the few remaining days of the Session would contaminate the Senate to a dreadful degree. [5]
- Now as they did not refuse the swift death, a hopeful young thing like Joan would naturally cherish that fact and make the most of it, allowing it to grow and establish itself in her mind. [5]
- You have no blame for the lucky few who naturally decline to vacate the pleasant nest they were born into, you only despise the all-powerful and stupid mass of the nation for allowing the nest to exist. [5]
- While Klea had been listening to the conversation between Euergetes and Eulaeus, Cleopatra had been sitting in her tent, and allowing herself to be dressed with no less care than on the preceding evening, but in other garments. [10]
- Don't bother to answer now, (for you've writing enough to do without allowing me to add to the burden,) but tell me when you see me again! [5]
- We see it, and to us it appears like principle, and the best sort of principle at that--the principle of allowing the people to do as they please with their own business. [7]
- Well, I've been allowing you to wear yourself out hunting for work for me when there's been a chance open to me all the time. [5]
- The shame, gentlemen,' added Brass, allowing himself to be slightly overcome, 'if there is any, is mine. [12]
- But, as he accepted great gifts without ever allowing himself to be tempted to treason or forgetfulness of duty, so he did not reject little tokens of friendliness from Barbara, and of these she showed no lack. [10]
- Too often, if a person would know what has taken place in a given case, he must read the reports in half a dozen journals, then strike a general average of probabilities, allowing for the personal equation, and then--suspend his judgment. [4]
- Mr. Ives had a natural aversion to being laughed at, and as he walked back on the darker side of the street he wished heartily that he had stuck to his original Gamaliel-advocacy of no interference, of allowing the Supreme Judge to decide. [9]
- I measured off 817 feet of the road-way in our farm grounds, with a foot-rule, and then divided it up among the English reigns, from the Conqueror down to 1883, allowing one foot to the year. [5]
- He took the "lay" of the place with a pocket-compass, allowing two seconds for magnetic variation. [5]
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