In like manner, Aristophanes could afford to trifle with the asseverations of his own Athenian audiences.
If I could think they would in any degree repay your loss, or rather that they could afford you pleasure, I am sure I should be much honoured by your accepting them.
It is not therefore likely that this heir, be he who he may, will afford us assistance in making a discovery which may turn out so much to his own prejudice.
Old Hicks was entirely dependent on what Jarvis brought in at night, and they could neither of them afford to have the cab idle a full day.
If he went light on food, he could afford to keep right at the play until he finished it.
But I think that until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
We can't affordto have any misunderstandings between us.
Yes, I can't afford to waste ideas, suggestions, thoughts.
It's as thrilling as modern warfare when they get started, but I can't afford to let them go, because they get so excited.
The mails, as we have seen, affordfacilities to the rogue for carrying out his designs as well as to the honest man in the prosecution of his business.
I am sorry you had not the candor to say as much to my face, and thus afford me the opportunity of satisfying you as to my standing and character among those who have known me best and longest.
It was of course expected by the deviser of this scheme that the package would be preserved by the person who stole it, in order to afford the necessary evidence of crime!
As whiskers are not an expensive article of luxury, even post-office clerks can affordto wear them.
Carleton expressed some surprise, but cheerfully promised to afford the Department any assistance and information in his power.
I, "but I feel rather empty about the epigastric region, after such a pull as you have given me, and I should think you might afford to treat a fellow.
The instruction they afford their young is varied.
Let this incident afford us great encouragement to love our enemies, and to return good for evil, since we find the feeling implanted in the breast of a dog to save the life of his antagonist, and to cherish him afterwards as a friend.
It was simply because they couldn't afford to keep me on.
You see, if Geoffrey had to sign a check for that amount, it would mean selling out some of his stock, and in his position, with every movement watched by enemies, he can not afford to do it.
Put your money--" he sank his voice to a compelling whisper, "put every penny you can afford into Wildcat Reefs.
Hence the letters can afford no proof of subsequent adultery.
But this cause rather increases the offence to the most atrocious crime of laesa majestas, because of the utter security which the Pontifical Majesty wishes to afford to all litigants in the City.
Also, by witnesses then living, she could afford conclusive proof of the pretence of the birth.
Deeming it improper for himself to afford her relief, he urged his friend Caponsacchi to accompany her.
The use also of laic garb, in which the Canon was found clothed, can afford no proof, because, as he is no priest, he cannot be said to be forbidden to do so on a journey.
Nor can it afford any proof of this pretended complicity that when Guido had made pretence of delivering a letter sent to them from the Canon, the doors were immediately opened by Violante to the assassins.
As therefore she fled to escape deadly peril, her flight canafford no proof of dishonesty nor of the violation of conjugal faith; for it is attributable to a lawful rather than to a criminal cause.
He killed them that he might afford wives an example that the sacred laws of marriage should be religiously kept.
But the same response recurs, that for the Accused this exception on the plea of pretended injury to honour can afford no refuge, because this plea has no foundation in fact and is irrelevant in law.
How could he afford to retain so eminent a lawyer?
Considering the present high price of provisions, it is really as low a price as we can afford to receive.
It will afford me sincere pleasure if, by reliable testimony, you can defeat the wicked conspiracy into which Mr. Roscoe has entered, with the object of defrauding you of your inheritance.
It would if I went to a boarding house, but I can't afford that.
The story of the action is perpetually varied by discussions on topics illustrating its progress, so as to break up the monotony of the narrative, and afford an agreeable relief to the reader.
The good qualities commemorated by the cognomens of most of the Peruvian princes afford an honorable, though not altogether unsuspicious, tribute to the excellence of their characters.
This island, he thought, would afford him a convenient place to encamp until he was prepared to make his descent on the Indian city.
The streets were to be much wider than usual in Spanish towns, and perfectly straight, crossing one another at right angles, and so far asunder as to afford ample space for gardens to the dwellings, and for public squares.
But it was not easy to still the tempest; and the people now eagerly looked for some one whose interests and sympathies might lie with theirs, and whose position in the community might afford them protection.
But the blood-stained annals of the Conquest afford no such example of cold-hearted and systematic persecution, not of an enemy, but of one whose whole deportment had been that of a friend and a benefactor.
The Greek, the Egyptian, the Saracen, the Gothic, - what a key do their respective styles afford to the character and condition of the people!
If people think we can afford to be independent, that is the very best advertisement we could have, for you know the old saying, 'Nothing succeeds like success.
It was my mother's money; and the interest has helped to buy my clothes, because father could not afford to give us much pocket-money.
I have been so happy lately that I can afford to have a little drawback like that.
When Ralph has got the business well established he will be able to affordmore help.
They can afford no luxuries, no hobbies, and there is little wonder they go to the public-house.
I can afford to do so now," she added, "much better than I could at the beginning of the summer.
Nor does Comus afford only a specimen of his language; it exhibits likewise his power of description and his vigour of sentiment, employed in the praise and defence of virtue.
A fiction, not only detected but despised, can never afford a solid basis to any position, though sometimes it may furnish a transient allusion, or slight illustration.
This is sufficiently peevish in a man, who, when he mentions his exile from the college, relates, with great luxuriance, the compensation which the pleasures of the theatre afford him.
I can't affordto have your advice, John," he said.
I can afford to miss a dinner," laughed the other.
What we find is, that the great series of formations represents a period of time of which our human chronologies hardly afford us a unit of measure.
The whole series of fossiliferous stratified rocks must be referred to the last two days; and neither the Carboniferous, nor any other, formation can afford evidence of the work of the third day.
The disadvantage is, that the witness may be false and corrupt, and the case may not afford the means of detecting his falsehood.
Last of all classes, can we afford to consider trimming our political sails to catch a chance breeze.
Can our voters afford to indulge in a prospect of profit to be obtained from their franchise?
We cannot, then, afford to go on, confident that justice and wisdom will prevail; for the best among ourselves know how difficult it is to be just and wise.
Having left his pursuers far behind, he felt sure that he could afford to rest for a few moments.
Mr Stuart walked up to the fire and turned his back to it, as if to offer it a deliberate insult, while yet he accepted all the benefit it could afford him on that cold December morning.
Yes, but mamma never really approved of it; only she had to give way because she couldn't afford to keep me at home, and I scorned to go out as a governess.
He could not afford to drive about London for ever with her; he dared not take her home; and he was afraid of being seen with her!
I was wishing as I came along I could afford to buy it at once, it struck so cold coming out of our place; and you had actually bought it for me all the time!
I can't afford to have it traced--it's not worth it!
Had not Kathleen asked how Evelyn could afford to wear such smart clothes?
Could sheafford to rent a room in town and come here for her meals?
How can a girl who can't afford to pay her college expenses wear such smart clothes?
Suppose some one were ill-natured enough to say that a girl who could afford such expensive gowns ought to be able to pay her own expenses and give her place in Harlowe House to some one more needy.
But political excitement was intense throughout the whole of Queen Anne's reign; Defoe could afford but small space for scandal, and his Club was often occupied with fighting his minor political battles.
Lyell states that as many as six hundred species of shells have been found in the principal limestone of the Paris basin alone; and the lower Eocene beds afford remains of fishes, of reptiles, of birds, and of mammals.
These great fishes afford a good reason for the spines and armour-plates of the contemporary trilobites and smaller fishes.
However, many characters of the form and venation of leaves are well-known to be characteristic of certain genera, and can therefore afford us characters of great value for their recognition.
The Belemnites must have swarmed in the Mesozoic seas; and as squids and cuttles now afford choice morsels to the larger fishes, so did the Belemnites in their day.
He says: "In conclusion, I beg to offer a few remarks on the amount of certainty in identification which the determination of fossil plants is able to afford us.
In the present condition of our civilization, coal is the most important product which the bowels of the earth afford to man.
I should dearly love to take it just as it is--this furniture is far more fitting for it than mine--but I cannot afford forty dollars a month.
I tell you Mrs. Armstrong thinks she can't afford to pay forty a month.
Mrs. Armstrong and Barbara, the latter an only child, had continued to occupy the house at Middleford, but recently the lady had come to feel that she could not afford to live there longer, but must find some less expensive quarters.
Neither Babbie nor I could afford to lose that head; it and its owner have been too thoughtful and kind.
It had become a struggle, no longer in the dark, between the most resourceful of Continental sovereigns and myself, and that being so, I realized that I could not afford to rest long on my oars.
The romantic story of John Smith, also includes many other poems, all of which afford suitable material for "Field Readings" and general school and church entertainments.
The canopies of the arches are dog-toothed, and end in curiously-carved heads, which afford interesting illustrations of the head-dresses of the time.
Recently, on the west side, some of the arcading has been opened out to afford access to the new vestry, which has been constructed by roofing in the space between the vestibule and the north transept.
On one of the buttresses of the choir on this side is an ancient image of a female figure, but it is too much decayed to afford any clue to the character represented, though it remains a very charming instance of Gothic sculpture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "afford" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
