But my house occupied so sunny and sheltered a position, and its roof was so low, that I could afford to let the fire go out in the middle of almost any winter day.
I could offer him only ten dollars a week, with a promise to raise his salary as soon as I could afford it, and he accepted the job "temporarily.
I accepted the challenge, offering to reduce the price by four dollars and a half before I had any idea whether I could afford to do so.
The cause continuing to operate, he was desirous to raise his rents above what his lands, in the actual state of their improvement, could afford.
In every period its revenue might have been the greatest which its capital could afford, and both capital and revenue might have been augmented with the greatest possible rapidity.
All this, however, could afford but a poor resource for maintaining a foreign war, of great expense, and several years duration.
He could afford to, since Johnny was not in service and therefore need not be reminded constantly of the difference between officer and man.
Johnny dined on "coffee and sinkers" so that he could afford Bland's steak and "French fried" and hot biscuits and pie and two cups of coffee.
She was a vulgar, garish little creature, and he could afford to smile satirically (and perhaps too consciously) at the powdered shoulder which she jerked up at him.
And from all that he had heard of Prothero he very much doubted whether he could afford to take him up.
He could afford, being extremely happy himself, to make Jane happy too.
He could afford to show his approval, to admit that, even as a woman, she had points.
It was becoming a serious problem what he could afford.
An' well he could afford to, seein' how he kep' thirty-four hundred fer himself.
If we can be sure of getting the entire eight million in one lump, we could afford to pay more--much more, in fact, than we could if there was anything short of eight million feet.
If I owned this trac' an' could afford to pay taxes I'd never lay down a stick of it fer ten year--mebbe twenty.
I could afford to wait for a day or two and I waited, but by and by things became pressing.
But in the failing light of Friday evening the great rock on which Philipopolis is built came into sight and I could afford to make the last stage of my journey at a foot pace, with the certainty that I held a good nine hours in hand.
So they cantered and trotted, and trotted and cantered away, Sponge thinking he could afford pace as well as Jawleyford.
In the meanwhile the lady, intent on her dancing, did not glance in my direction, but I could afford to wait.
I had won thirty pounds weight of gold, and I could afford to let fools talk.
They themselves were poor men with families to support, while David was a bachelor and could do as he pleased; he would have plenty one of these days; he could afford to take things easily; whereas .
Rastignac had made and held his position by very similar means; but so careful had he been of appearances, that he could afford to treat scandal as slander.
For a long while he looked about till, finally, in the Rue de Cluny, close to the Sorbonne, he discovered a place where he could have a furnished room for such a price as he could afford to pay.
His generosity to poor students was well known; but he could afford to be liberal, as his share of spoliated Church property had made him one of the wealthiest men in Denmark.
We could have put them all off the floor of the Exchange and to a small degree it would have been to our advantage to do so, but they had our sympathy in their trouble and we could afford to lose the money.
I could afford to wait for better times and meanwhile did not worry, knowing that we were getting more than our share of what business there was.
It strengthened us greatly with the large dealers, who now secured most of it direct, and that we could afford to part with so many customers, small though they were, added much to our prestige.
I sent her, clad as handsomely as I could afford, with a slave to carry the baby, and two other slaves to attend upon her; and I waited the result of the interview between her and her father with no little anxiety.
But Ali, though he took whatever presents we could afford to give him, did nothing, having no doubt received from Moussa still handsomer presents than it was in our power to afford.
But she would not see the hand that he could afford to hold out to her now; and as for going near his chambers, never, never, though she starved!
And for once the stranger in their midst, the man with more outward distinction than any one of them, the unknown man with the snowy hair, could afford to listen to what they had to say.
Wallie agreed that it was an idea, but he was privately of the opinion that there would be a limit to the pleasure which the company of chipmunks, however accomplished, could afford him.
He wished for a well every time that he panted in from a trip to the creek, and meant to have one as soon as he could afford it.
He meant to have a windmill as soon as he could afford it, for whatever else the country might lack there was no dearth of wind for motive power.
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