The officer on duty, when requested by the convict to allow him to ascend the ladder, coolly drew his gun, and told him if he dared to ascend he would send buckshot into his body.
The board refused to allow him this, and Hicks bade them good-by.
He begged them to allow him to build a shanty in a part of the prison in which he could sleep and call his home.
Perhaps he had come to see that a conflict with Anselm could not be avoided, and chose not to allow him any, even merely formal, advantages.
He came in before he was attacked, and gave up his castles, and with great difficulty persuaded the king to allow him to send home his foreign troops.
But he thought only of the welfare of the State, and pressed the King to allow him to depart to Flanders.
For his part he sincerely desired repose, and he pressed the King to allow him to take it, but all in vain.
We understood that she had something important to say to him, and when he was a short distance from her, we stopped so as to allow him to join her alone.
The attendants had accustomed themselves to let him have this honour, on account of his distinguished voice, so as to allow him to speak by the way, and retired respectfully so as not to hear what he said.
But he said that what he now saw emboldened him to make a new request, and as the difficulty had now been overcome, to ask whether I might be persuaded to allow him still to retain his present quarter and enjoy another victory.
He possessed too high a sentiment of honor to allow him to trifle with truth.
Whatever were the offences of Carlos, those who had the best opportunities for observation soon became satisfied that it was intended never to allow him to regain his liberty, or to ascend the throne of his ancestors.
The Spanish minister, Feria, desired his master to allow him to mention Mary's jealousy, as an argument to recommend his suit to the favor of Elizabeth.
In 1813 he had the good feeling and the good sense to refuse the treacherous offer of the Allies to allow him to retain his kingdom if he joined them against his brother, a snare his sister Caroline fell into at Naples.
He was in a profound sleep, and this was one of the days on which I had been desired to allow him to sleep a little longer than usual.
He asked me to allow him to go to Paris to be examined by the Minister of Police.
Especially, to allow him to hand over the two statues that remain to be done to the said Raffaello da Montelupo, or to some one pleasing to his Excellency, for a good price, which it is thought would be 200 scudi.
But whoever has such a complexion both because the force of his duty demands it, and because of his having been born with a dislike of ceremony and dissimulation, it seems very foolish not to allow him to live.
The tempest howled frightfully about the house of the painter, and Wolkenlicht found some solace in listening to the uproar, for his troubled thoughts would not allow him to sleep.
Not once did he allow him to proceed thither alone, and not once did he leave him there without locking and bolting the door on the outside.
By these means Thaddeus slowly acquired sufficient strength to allow him to quit his dressing-gown, and prepare for a walk.
The widow opened it the moment he knocked; and seeing some one with him, was retreating, when Thaddeus, who found from the silence of Butzou that he was faint, begged her to allow him to take his companion into her parlor.
His excessive transports had sufficiently subsided to allow him to enter into her feelings, and he affectionately answered, "What would my dear sister?
He has neither by himself, nor by his representatives, consented to the Covenant; and his equal and free rights allow him to reject it.
Fouquet to allow him a pension, and will go and compose verses at Fontainebleau, upon some Mancini or other, whose eyes the queen will scratch out.
They say he threw himself at his mother's feet, to beg her to allow him to marry her.
He lacked the courage to tell Lady Glencora to mind her own business and to allow him to do the same.
His connexion with the property and with the family was of a nature toallow him to take almost any liberty with the Eustaces.
Mr. Emilius had found the necessity of coming to the point by some direct road, as the lady had refused to allow him to lead up to it in the manner he had proposed to himself.
But Mr. Camperdown isn't the law and the prophets, nor yet can we allow him to be judge and jury in such a case as this.
Still the English pressed them hard, and Douglas, from the distance, seeing how hotly the pikemen were pressed by the cavalry, begged the king toallow him to go to Randolph's assistance.
Archie, however, persuaded them to allow him to organize a band of two hundred men under his immediate orders.
He begged his foster-parents to allow him to earn his bread with his own hands, and said, "I have strength and understanding enough to keep myself without your help.
He often implored his beloved to allow him to fast with her on Thursdays, but all to no purpose.
He therefore asked the king to allow him to visit the garden to make his observations without the knowledge of the guards.
The conversation interested him too much to allow him to sleep.
He felt responsible for his nephew, and did not intend toallow him to be captured if caution could save him.
Donald Ward refused, as long as possible to allow him to get out of bed, and even when Neal was up and dressed, peremptorily forbade him to leave the house.
Her father had no intention of living up to his agreement with Dakota and intended to allow him to be hanged.
She certainly could not walk to the Double R ranchhouse, even to satisfy a desire to show him that she would not allow him to place her under any obligation to him.
She was relieved to find that Doubler had received no injury, and she paused long enough to allow him to tell her that Duncan had entered the cabin shortly after she had left it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "allow him" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
