Though few made allowances for his imperfections, he was always ready to do this for others; and his magnanimity would have been remarkable, even had he not been a natural fighting man.
Reference may be made to the official White Paper on Distress; other official documents of note are the following: "Separation allowances to the Wives and Children of Seamen, Marines, and Reservists.
Arrangements have been made for the payment of allowances of half wages up to a maximum of £1 a week to dependants of sailors employed on insured British merchant ships captured or detained by the enemy.
Then, indeed, great Allowancesought to be made for the severe Reflections he might naturally throw upon those pragmatical Actors, who had no Sense or Taste of good Writing.
And if fairallowances were made to them, and their buildings attended to, one could persuade them to farm on a better plan, stupid as they are.
Every tenant was quite sure things would be different when the reins got into his hands--there was to be a millennial abundance of new gates, allowances of lime, and returns of ten per cent.
Such allowances gradually became customary, and so the military expenditure grew by leaps and bounds without any corresponding increase in the striking power of the army.
For festivals, imperial birthdays, weddings and burials extraallowances were made.
Making allowances for the asperity of an Englishman, for some of his strong and coarse expressions, and a want of official information as to many facts, it is not a bad thing.
On the subject of her reputed gallantries he spoke cautiously, premising that, as an American, I ought to make many allowances for a state of society, that was altogether unknown in our country.
And this represents but a portion of the swindle, as constantly allowances are being made and annuities granted which do not show upon paper, and can only be reached by the most ferret-like acuteness and perseverance.
In addition to this they have enormous estates all over England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales; they have offices beyond number, with a salary attached to each, and they have allowances for everything under heaven.
We must makeallowances for a man who suffers under Dexter's infirmities, and lives Dexter's life.
They could not make allowances for lovers subsiding into husband and wife; nor were they prepared for the little ruffles and frettings of individual temper; and both felt disappointed.
Like other institutions in their early stages, they have been tentative and in a great measure empirical,--more especially as regards their rates of contribution and allowances for sick relief.
Mountjoy's inexhaustible indulgence still made allowances for her.
She makes allowances for him, which he does not deserve; her sense of right and wrong becomes confused; and before she is aware of it herself, she has sunk to his level.
Mr. Oxbye's inexhaustible patience and amiability made endless allowances for his medical advisor.
She was wholly un-English, but she made allowances for every English tradition.
After all allowances are made for natural deaths, wars, catastrophes, and losses of all kinds, if the human race would double its numbers 30.
In these calculations, we have made greaterallowances than any self-respecting evolutionist could ask without blushing.
Could those around him, far meaner souls many of them than he, have only known and remembered that and, remembering it, have made due allowances for his vagaries, all might have been well.
Indian soldiers on leave seemed to expect their usual allowances and Cooper, although disclaiming that he had any desire to "pander to the prejudices" of the natives, was always to be found on their side in any contention with Steele.
President Davis remarked upon the vacancies in these offices and said that, in consequence of them, delays had occurred in the payment of annuities and allowances to which the Indians were entitled.
Those who have received praebendae [apparently official allowances charged on the Province] are, with detestable injustice, claiming them both in money and in kind.
Follock was quite content that his son and heir should know no more than he knew himself, after making proper allowances for the difference in years and experience.
We hear a good deal about clothing allowances and abuses, with which we have nothing whatever to do.
Each of us had a room to himself and a separate little establishment, as the boys had allowances to provide breakfast and tea for themselves, and we did not meet in common rooms for private study, as in some schools.
Perhaps, he reflected, if these two had made allowances for one another earlier in life their coming together would not have been delayed for ten years.
Mrs. Falconer, it was true, spent her life in making allowances for Mr. Falconer.
Incidentally he made a note that, dragons having become obsolete, a knight might do worse than set out to persuade people to makeallowances for one another.
The daily work of half the women in the world is to make allowances for some man or other, Mother says.
He considered that the author should have compelled these two wrong-headed people to "make allowances for one another," and so come together at the last.
Do you know," he said, "I think that all things are possible to two people who are prepared to makeallowances for one another?
We can make allowances for men who have been parading London all night in scarlet tights.
Then I reminded myself that one has got to make allowances for a woman with only about half a spoonful of soup inside her, and I checked the red-hot crack that rose to the lips.
Following the lead of the Report of 1834, the Poor Law Commissioners took no steps, so far as we can ascertain, either to encourage or to discourage the relief of the aged and infirm, and of the sick, by money allowances in their own homes.
Accordingly, we find that even in places distinguished in general by the most wanton parochial profusion, the allowances to the aged and infirm are moderate.
Of course, the pay and allowancesmake it easy for even a subaltern to live on his income there, but when it comes to laying by much, that is a difficult matter.
What with allowancesand so on, I ought to be able to pay it off in three or four years.
For more than 90 days Dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances and 3 months' confinement at hard labor.
Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowancesto sin.
The term is also applied to similar delays and allowances in land carriage, by wagons, railroads, etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "allowances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
