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allowing

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Allow \Al*low"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Allowing .] [OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F. allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. ...

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vb. (present participle of allow English)

Usage examples of allowing.

However well sprung the Bracket arrangements, these Walls were fix'd ultimately to the Sea, whose Rhythm must have affected the Pendula of both clocks in ways we do not fully appreciate, the Pendulum as is well known, being a Clock's most sensitive Organ of communication, here allowing the two to chat, in the Interval between the one's being taken from its Shipping-Case and the other's being nail'd up in its own, to go with Dixon to the Cape.

Small numbers of people go on telling much larger numbers what to do with their precious Lives, among these Multitudes, all but a few go on allowing them to do so.

Accordingly, Dixon's Dossier is flagg'd in Yellow, which means, "Caution, may be connected dangerously," allowing him to go on as ever at the Cape, running before any wind of Sensory delight, as the Church-Faithful carouse, Slaves conspire their Freedom, and Functionaries flee the Castle, and head for open Country.

Thus at the instant of first Exterior Contact, before Immersion of the Gift into a Coat-Pocket, all Honor Mason might take in the Moment is drain'd away, as even his Daydreams turn upon him, allowing among them Clive Anointing Maskelyne, as if in some particularly tasteless Painting destin'd to hang at the Greenwich Observatory, "It has its Elements of Excess," Maskelyne will admit, "dive's Tunick in partickular, and one or two of the attending Dignitaries' Hats.

In his mature person, tho' he will seem from time to time to allow his Gaze to refocus upon something more remote, yet 'tis as little Fidgeting as Reverie, something purposeful, rather, allowing him to remain attentive to the Topick at hand.

Franklin now throwing back his hood, to reveal Lenses tonight of a curious shade of Aquamarine, allowing his eyes to be view'd, yet conveying a bleak Contentment that discourages lengthy Gazing.

As soon as they shall have taken Measurements enough to yield trustworthy Mean Values of the Zenith Distances of Algol, Marfak, Capella, and their other Latitude-Stars, allowing them at last to compute the exact Latitude of the southernmost point of Philadelphia, they can pack up and go looking for the next Observatory Site, someplace in that same Latitude, to the west of here.

In April Mason and Dixon, using fir Rods and Spirit Levels, measure exactly the fifteen miles southward, allowing for the ten and a half Seconds off at the north end.

Soon he is allowing her to prepare salads, and confiding minor Arcana of French Haute Cuisine, its historical beginnings among the arts of the Poisoner, its need to be carried on in an Attitude of unwavering Contempt for any who would actually chew, swallow, and attempt to digest it, and come back for more, the first Thousand Pot-lid settings, from Le Gastreau's fam'd article in the Encyclopédie, the Pot-Lid being indeed a particular Hobby-Horse of Armand's, upon its proper Arrangement often hanging the difference between success and failure.

Mason expects shock'd murmurs at this, that there are none shocks him even more gravely, allowing him a brief, careening glimpse at how far and fast all this may be moving, something styling itself "America," coming into being, ripening, like a Tree-ful of Cherries in a good summer, almost as one stands and watches, something no one in London, however plac'd in the Web of Privilege, however up-to-the-minute, seems to know much about.

By imagining it to be Christian, she had meant to color it with the Immortality of her Soul, of her Soul in Christ, allowing herself to forget that turns of Fortune in the given World might depend upon Events too far out of her Power,.

They are greeted by most of the Commissary, headed by Mo McClean, the Hands more agog than they should be allowing themselves, by now, to be sent, by such Apparitions, and assign'd Quarters separated by a good Chain and a Half's worth of Gazes, Stares, and Glares "Shall I see you more?

Coventry, is regulating Traffick in the Harbor, allowing ships to enter, but detaining as many as he may who attempt to leave with their Clearance Papers unstamp'd.

Mason a-squint, " Well, thank you for allowing us to witness your Experience, aye very helpful indeed" Shelby would have preferr'd the slow chatter of three Men, in the early morning, with nought more to discuss than the Day ahead.

Believe me, if I knew the Secrets, I should be producing this Receipt from a Mill, by the Hogshead, and wallowing in Revenue.