Stipend

Usage examples of allowance.

The Isle of Thanet, a secure and fertile district, was allotted for the residence of these German auxiliaries, and they were supplied, according to the treaty, with a plentiful allowance of clothing and provisions.

Surely if he had ever seen that wonderful artistry which she knew was hers, witnessed the half-crazy enthusiasm with which her audience received her, he would make allowance, judge her a little less harshly for what was, after all, a very natural assumption on the part of a stage favourite.

To add to their discomfort some of the water casks were stove, so that the crew were placed on short allowance until they were relieved by a barkentine named, The Girl of the Period.

He had not begrudged allocating funds from the living expenses allowance to the group home, knowing that a portion of it was handed on to Marta for her own discretion.

Specific Gravity Tables -- Percentage Tare Tables -- Petroleum Tables -- Paraffine and Benzoline Calculations -- Customary Drafts -- Tables for Calculating Allowance for Dirt, Water, etc.

Yet, making allowance for editorial blatancy, they may contain a germ of bitter truth.

Much allowance is to be made for a man who is staggering under the mental shock of defeat and the physical exertions which Buller had endured.

The New York publishing scene makes almost no allowance for bringing gifted European and Asian genre writers to the attention of the American reading public and the monolingual status of most of us Americans will keep us ignorant of the existence of these writers.

NASA has overspent its allowance three times in the past two years and crawled back to the President with its tail between its legs and asked for more money to fix its mistakes.

Discretionary accounts, reimbursed expenses, overstated of course- a percentage of our expense allowance salted away, laundered clean, invested in the market.

Our desire is that we may have them of twelve years old and upward, with allowance of L3 apiece for their trans portation, and 40s.

For, while the moat at the great gate held only its usual allowance of water, by means of the new dam they had constructed, that part of the moat near the postern was level full.

And it is needless to say that experience shows, even among well-informed and accurate reasoners, how large an allowance must thus be made for personal equations.

Center the reticle his sternum, move it six inches right: windage allowance.

I said I owned it secretly because I had saved it in the course of two years from my allowance of five rubles a month.