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Example sentences for "will allow"

  • I fancy he was more hurt in that little affair than some people will allow.

  • I will allow nothing of the kind, George.

  • He wouldn't let it to us; he will allow my mother and sisters to live here for nothing; and I don't think he has said anything to Mr. Knox about you.

  • The Baroness, when she desired to be-little the doctor, always called her a female.

  • But the courtesy which surprised and annoyed her most was a visit from Adelaide Houghton.

  • Those who wished to sympathise with her should send her money,--not go to the hall to hear that loud imbecile American female!

  • A catamount is a skeary animal, I will allow, but then it is nothing in the hands of a practysed hunter.

  • That towns and settlements lead to sin, I will allow; but our lakes are bordered by the forests, and one is every day called upon to worship God in such a temple.

  • They talk different tongues, and live under different kings, I will allow; but both are human, and feel like human beings, when there is occasion for it.

  • Do you imagine that we will allow ourselves to be trampled under foot, that we will permit our religion to be destroyed, our faith undermined, our priests abused and expelled?

  • Every one, of course, will allow that we modern men, in many branches of natural science, have attained to a degree of information vastly superior to what the ancients even dreamed of.

  • Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold th' opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam.

  • It was possible, he will allow, in him to have given these children knowledge without pain, at least if he continues to him the attribute he allows of omnipotence.

  • Priestley perhaps, will allow him to be better than a sceptic, as any principles for systematising nature are better than none at all.

  • I have asked my brother Henry to arrange the conditions under which he will allow us to enlist men for my army in his duchy.

  • Under certain conditions he will allow that he should escape secretly from prison.

  • Yes, Trude, I will allow you to stay," she replied, very graciously.

  • The public, where it costs them nothing, are extravagantly liberal; yet I will allow with Dr.

  • But a judge and a commodore, for instance, are characters whose duties are so utterly at variance in human affairs, that I will allow I find the conjunction, even in a monikin, a little extraordinary.

  • Except me, if he will allow me, and the clergyman, not a soul in the country will visit at Bartram-Haugh.

  • I was to demand to Mr. Ruthyn the permission to go to Feltram, and I think he will allow.

  • All I can do, you may be sure I will, and perhaps he will allow you to come to me, now and then, for a short visit.

  • I will allow you to make me hateful, but I will prevent your rendering me ridiculous, and, above all, I forbid you to ruin me.

  • Some one has vexed you; I will allow no one to annoy you.

  • But I will endeavor to give them you; and I am sure you will endeavor to learn them, as far as your youth, my experience, and the time we shall pass together, will allow.

  • He will allow none to cross his post leaving the guardhouse except when passed by an officer or noncommissioned officer of the guard.

  • Unless otherwise ordered by the commanding officer, he will allow no one to touch them but the color bearer.

  • He will allow no one to communicate with prisoners without permission from proper authority.

  • As soon as he will allow you to hold him by a tolerably short strap, and step up to him without flying back, you can begin to give him some idea about leading.

  • Shod with adhesive sandals which later on, in my laboratory, will allow it rapidly to climb a vertical sheet of glass, the elephant-beetle is solidly established on the smooth, steep curvature of the acorn.

  • I, a benevolent ratepayer, will allow it to take its dues; it is precisely to benefit it that I have sown a few rows of the beloved plant in a corner of my garden.

  • It is said that young birds, paralysed with terror by the gaping mouth of a serpent, or fascinated by its gaze, will allow themselves to be snatched from the nest, incapable of movement.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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