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It allowed of no delay.

It was only by the personal intervention of the young king that some arrangement was finally made that allowed of these Muranese glass-workers returning unmolested after working off part of their contract.

This allowed of time for absorption.

Egypt had from the first a broad road driven through it from end to end—a road seven hundred miles long, and seldom much less than a mile wide—which allowed of ready and rapid communication between the remotest parts of the kingdom.

Carefully concealed passages connected the chamber with the outer world, and allowed of its being entered by those in possession of the "secrets of the prison-house.

Bounderby felt it necessary to get on: foreseeing that if he allowed of details, he would be beaten.

As yet, however, this scale allowed of no transposition of a mode to another pitch, in order to accomplish this the second tetrachord was used as the first of another similar system.

It is almost as though at some period in the past the unconscious mind of the race had made a hasty inventory of experience, committed itself to a premature classification that allowed of no revision, and saddled the inheritors of its language with a science that they no longer quite believed in nor had the strength to overthrow.

But, in compositions where liberty is allowed of fiction, it must be want of genius, if the mind is not sufficiently exercised, till it acquire the greatest sensibility, and the most confirmed habits of virtue.

The covering from Cold as well as from Shame, said Faddle, may be allowed of some sensible Use, with respect to Dress; at least among us who are placed so far North of the Tropic.

I may be mistaken in asserting, that we have no idea of any other connexion in the actions of body, and shall be glad to be farther instructed on that head: But sure I am, I ascribe nothing to the actions of the mind, but what must readily be allowed of.

Slop had laid down, to treat the accident by, no way allowed of such a mode of enquiry.--He sat down.

It will not, nevertheless, thence follow that those methods are useless; but only, that they are not to be allowed of as Premisses in a strict Demonstration.

But this is a point you will not permit me to expatiate upon: pardon me therefore, and I have done.--Yet, why should I say, pardon me? when your concerns are my concerns? when your honour is my honour? when I love you, as never woman loved another? and when you have allowed of that concern and of that love; and have for years, which in persons so young may be called many, ranked in the first class of your friends, Your ever grateful and affectionate, ANNA HOWE? Whatever was his motive for a patience so generally believed to be out of his usual character, and where the object of his address was supposed to be of fortune considerable enough to engage his warmest attention, he certainly escaped many mortifications by it: for while my father suspended his approbation till my brother's arrival, Mr. Lovelace received from every one those civilities which were due to his birth: and although we heard from time to time reports to his disadvantage with regard to morals, yet could we not question him upon them without giving him greater advantages in his own opinion than the situation he was in with us would justify to prudence; since it was much more likely that his address would not be allowed of, than that it would.

But you were always for making excuses for other people, in cases wherein you would not have allowed of one for yourself.

They knew it well, and so did the legislators in America; but, still they allowed of no use of soldiers.

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