Why so much ado," said the Master, "at my merely permitting his approach, and not rather at my allowing him to draw back?
The disciple replied, "Certainly Heaven is allowing him full opportunities of becoming a sage, in addition to the fact that his abilities are many and varied.
Tom has no business allowing that fellow around; if he don't know this some one ought to tell him!
He bewailed that they had risked pollution by allowing any inhabitant of that region to set foot on the raft--he feared for the innocent minds of their children, and he implored her pardon.
Her father had planned these grounds which he was allowing a riotous second growth to swallow up.
Therefore, the American people have wisely established a custom against allowing any man to hold that office for more than two consecutive terms.
We adhered strictly to field equipment, allowing no luxuries or anything else unnecessary, and so we were able to move off the field when ordered, with our own transportation, leaving nothing behind.
Some one of their number would have obtained a pass from the Indian Agent allowing him to travel off the reservation, which pass would be flourished whenever their action was questioned by bodies of whites of equal strength.
He closed a bank without allowing it the time to liquidate.
He went up to Moliere, and said: "Monsieur de Moliere, will you do me the honor of allowing me to help you to make the king's bed?
Besides, I am not doing rightly inallowing James to grow up without any discipline, and I think he should be placed in a Catholic school, where he will be taught his duty.
She implores him to be reconciled to his wife, and they part without her allowing her hand to meet his.
Instead of allowing the weary nation a rest after a strife where centuries were condensed into a few months, and fabulous armies shattered in days, the military laws are made more stringent than ever.
Amelie nursed him with the tenderest affection, never allowing her devotions or her work amongst the poor to interfere with her first duty to him.
Would the horrible courage she had felt in him prevail to the extent of allowing him to give her to his son?
The idea was to divert the stream of emigrants to Fiume--instead of allowing them to cross the national frontiers uncontrolled--and to carry them from that port to the United States by direct steamers.
This machine was run by water-power, thus doing away with hand-power and allowing the operator to attend entirely to the spinning.
On the left hand of a vertical line are set down the dates, allowing the same space for each ten years, the close of each decade being shown in larger figures.
Men have more active and interesting lives than women, as a rule; and so have the less excuse for allowing age to creep upon them.
The very sensible plan was adopted ofallowing the Company to make some of their incomplete purchases good by additional payments.
Allowing for the enormous difference in his arena, he managed to be nearly as mischievous.
More often, however, patents were granted to printers allowing them the sole privilege of printing certain classes of books.
Having commenced the work, he now toiled persistently on, allowinghimself neither pause nor rest until he had disposed of every spar which his unaided strength would allow him to move.
By the time that he had been at the wheel a quarter of an hour he discovered that the ship was steering herself, and he accordingly relaxed his vigilance, allowing his thoughts to travel away whithersoever they would.
Then will you actually remain a victim and keep silence, allowing these people to thus misjudge you?
The unfaithfulness of the church to Christ in permitting her confidence and affection to be turned from Him, and allowing the love of worldly things to occupy the soul, is likened to the violation of the marriage vow.
He had no intention of allowing his son to follow the idle and worthless life of the monks.
Satan is constantly accusing Christians as the cause of loss, misfortune, and suffering, instead of allowing the reproach to fall where it belongs,—upon himself and his agents.
To ROOSE fish, to throw a large quantity of fish together, with salt among them; allowing them to lie in that state for some time, before curing them, S.
For allowing it to be true, as it is not, that the ridiculous is never accompanied with pain, yet we might produce many instances of such a fault or turpitude which cannot with any tolerable propriety be called ridiculous.
He had made all his money himself; he had worked hard for it, allowing himself no luxuries and little comfort for the best part of life, and deferring marriage until he was well on in years and had given up active business.
Fancy, allowing my illness to stand in the way of your success!
You are not annoyed with me, Alfred, for allowing him, are you?
With pleasure," said the manager, opening the gate, and allowing his merry companions to pass into the meadow.
He sate down and wrapped himself up in his great Viennese travelling-coat; allowing Will and Miss Brunel to promenade the deck.
So pre-occupied was the Count, indeed, that he broke the ash off the end of his cigar upon the edge of his wine-glass, allowing the ash to fall into the port.
But the English had no intention of allowing Stirling Castle to fall into the hands of the Scots and before the stipulated date a strong army advanced into Scotland, led by King Edward the Second in person.
And instead of allowing her women to be her attendants, her only jailers were rough men at arms, who were constantly with her.
As a matter of fact, he was one of the first champions of woman's suffrage, for in preparing his platform he said that he was for allowing all whites to vote who bore the burdens of the Government, including the women.
While the packers make a profit of, say, two cents on the dollar value of commodities, it represents double the profit per pound over pre-war, even after allowing such items as interest on the larger capital involved.
They also handed him a memorandum pointing out that there was needed a permit from the British Government allowing the immediate exportation of about 2,500 tons of wheat, rice, beans, and peas to Belgium.
Before allowing a lady to mount, the entire furniture of her horse should be carefully examined by her escort.
When once off, he must bring both feet up together, and strike again, as soon as he finds himself steady enough, rarely allowing both feet to be on the ice together.
Any person who has seen negro features convulsed with rage, may form a slight estimate of what the result would be of arming a vast number of blacks, rousing their passions, and then allowing them free scope.
Ibrahim displayed great energy and tenacity, sharing all the hardships of his army, and never allowing himself to be discouraged by failure.
The last mention we have of him, as schoolmaster, occurs in December 1583, when a member of the congregation was reproved for allowing his workmen to set a bad example to Master Vincent's scholars.
The master should repeat the lesson two or three times before allowing the child to say it, and be ready to explain difficulties, and not wait for the child to guess.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "allowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
