When it was allowable to halt, what a glorious time it was!
Before the play, or the programme, begins, social conversation is usually allowablein quiet tones that do not disturb the surrounding people.
A personal call isallowable if intimacy warrants it.
Similarly, professional or business cards that bear ever so slight an advertisement of occupations are not allowable for social purposes.
After any entertainment other than a dinner it is allowable to leave or send cards instead of paying a personal call.
The "cut direct" is the rudest possible way of dropping an acquaintance; and is allowable only in the case of some flagrant offender who deserves public and merciless rebuke.
Bonaparte was not the man to conceal a fact which would have afforded him so excellent and so allowable a text for talking about his fortune.
From this absolute stand-point we must, after all, decide what is for us allowable or forbidden, what is expedient and what inexpedient.
For from this standpoint alone can we finally decide what is allowable and what is forbidden, what is advantageous and what is disadvantageous.
By no reason of law, or favor of equity, is itallowable for us to interpret harshly, and render burdensome, those useful measures which have been enacted for the welfare of man.
Wherefore Innocent III says in the Decretal quoted above that "it is more easily allowable for a monk to ascend to the episcopacy, than for a bishop to descend to the monastic life.
But it would not be allowable for anyone to observe the rites of idolatry, in fact Christian princes at first caused the temples of idols to be closed, and afterwards, to be destroyed, as Augustine relates (De Civ.
For when we love the good which we have acquired, with an unchangeable love, without doubt, if it is allowableto say so, our fear is sure of avoiding evil.
Now it is always possible to further one's spiritual welfare otherwise than by cutting off a member, because sin is always subject to the will: and consequently in no case is it allowable to maim oneself, even to avoid any sin whatever.
Show me, with all your directing of the intention," returned I, "that it isallowable to fight a duel.
But when the person is not of such a wretched disposition as this, we try to put in practice our method of directing the intention, which consists in his proposing to himself, as the end of his actions, some allowable object.
Was it allowable for a consistent socialist to accept the place of tutor to the son of a peer and a landowner?
The word is perhaps not allowable in speaking of the earliest time (the reign of Alexander Severus) assignable for the erection of separate buildings appropriate to Christian worship.
This use of the past tense is not allowable now, but was common in Elizabethan English.
This change occurs very rarely in the tenth syllable, and seldom in the fourth; and it is not allowable in two successive accented syllables.
But to 'assume a virtue if you have it not' is more allowablethan to assume a vice which you have not.
It is, of course, allowable towards those who take a decidedly responsible and confidential situation in a household.
A conversation of a moment or two is all that is allowable in such meetings.
It is allowable to look over a newspaper in the interval at breakfast; but the habit, quite common, of carrying a novel to the table is not lady-like.
At this point, it would be very allowable for us to stop our philosophical researches.
If you think, that the appearances of things prove such causes, it is allowable for you to draw an inference concerning the existence of these causes.
This it is not allowable for us to do, because we are undertaking to trace deductive truths not to prior deductions, but to their original inductive foundation.
In like manner it is allowable to say, suppose that a were a mark of b, b of c, and c of d, a would be a mark of d, which last conclusion was not thought of by those who laid down the premises.
Indeed, without condemning a family to betake themselves to particular rooms at stated hours, it may be allowable to decorate and furnish apartments on such a supposition, by way of ensuring a marked and agreeable variety of character.
Why, then, Socrates, do they say that it is not allowable to kill one's self?
The different aspirates notwithstanding, it is scarcely allowableto separate the man Haran from the town Haran and to make him die elsewhere.
It is not allowableto take down the books from a library; but we may, and we even ought to read the titles, in order to praise the good taste which has been shown in the choice of the works.
It is notallowable to be urged, except when we are requested to dine with someone whom we have seen only at the house of a third person, or when we are invited on a visit or other similar occasion.
But what is especially insupportable in this sex is, an inquiet, bold, and imperious air; for it is unnatural, and not allowable in any case.
That is merely "fast deliberate aim," in fact is as slow as allowable for practical shooting, slower is mere target shooting.
Five degrees of variation below these temperatures will be allowablewithout any injurious effects; even more may be borne, but not without more or less check to the plants.
It is rarely, if ever, allowable to place formal beds in the lawn in home grounds.
In such a case, then, the lady having received a bite, 'twas allowablein her wittily to return it.
Which, being brief, are much more proper for ladies than for men, seeing that prolixity of speech, where brevity is possible, is much less allowableto them.
But on being disentangled they did limp away, and it is allowable to hope that they suffered no serious dismantling of their vital organs.
Although a highly chivalrous chap in questions of the fairer sex, I am yet to see why it is allowable to render the female bird a bereaved widow, but totally forbidden to make the male a widower!
If free inquiry on religious subjects is allowable and right, is a man to be held blameless if he arrives at false conclusions in respect of the fundamental articles of faith?
Only the one insisted that the compilers of them were of their mind; the others simply argued that theirs was a lawful and allowable interpretation.
