130 Verbs to Use for the Word allowance

"Making every allowance for the sudden shock under which he was labouring I thought his attitude the other day most objectionable, didn't you?"

They receive an allowance for dress and so forth proportionate to their personal attractions or to the fancy of the suitor; and of course the richest men can offer the best terms, and generally secure the most agreeable wives, in whatever number they please or think they can without inconvenience support.

"We thought if Barbara were given an allowance, she might, for example, stay with the Vernons.

Of course they had been talking of moving after Sir Horace stopped the allowance.

She had been living in a little flat in Westminster on a monthly allowance which Sir Horace made her, but he'd suddenly cut off her allowance and she'd have to be turned out in the street to starve because she couldn't pay her rent.

Instead, he instructed his solicitor to pay me the allowance in quarterly instalments during the rest of his life; and it was understood that, on his death, the entire estate should devolve on me, or if I died first, on my daughter Ruth.

In our navy, both royal and commercial, and generally from deep remembrances of slighted love, women have sometimes served in disguise for many years, taking contentedly their daily allowance of burgoo, biscuit, or cannon ballsanything, in short, digestible or indigestible, that it might please Providence to send.

A labor leader in the Midlands told me that an investigation by his trade union showed that only one hundred women in the ten thousand cases inquired into were mis-spending their allowances.

Moreover, she wouldn't accept the allowance.

Japan grants no government allowance.

" "What means?" "I shall reduce your allowance.

I mentioned in my last letter that I should probably exceed my allowance this year by a few pounds, but I now begin to think that I shall not.

"Further instructions as regards the allowance to householders which have increased in size will be issued later.

She stayed with them a considerable time, and entertained them with little else than railing on Edella; and to make her appear as odious and contemptible as she could to Horatio, insinuated that it was for the sake of a young needy favourite she had been obliged to withdraw the allowance they had from her.

She poured out his allowance in a small cup, keeping the large one at a discreet distance from him.

Protests and prayers, abuse and cajolery, were alike powerless to win his consent to his wife's perpetual proposal that she should be allowed to draw her dress allowance for some months, or even some weeks ahead.

A man can secure an allowance from the government of ten dollars a month to a dependent parent, if he allots five dollars a month.

In a weak moment Francesco gave heed to Ferdinando's stipulations, and provided him with funds and increased his family allowance.

The wages offered by the merchants overbalance, at present, those which are proposed by the crown; to raise the allowance in the ships of war, will be, to lay new loads upon the publick, and will incommode the merchants, whose wages must always bear the same proportion to the king's.

From the second hoeing, or early in May, every work hand who uses it gets an occasional allowance of tobacco, about one sixth of a pound, usually after some general operation, as a hoeing, plowing, etc.

Afterwards he would obtain for her an allowance of thirty francs a month for at least one year.

To the populace he distributed a quadruple allowance of grain and made a present of money to some of the senators.

The government gives an additional twenty dollars and the donations of the Patriotic Fund bring up the monthly allowance of a wife with three children to sixty dollars.

If a year hence his income is not enough to allow of his marrying, I will double Mary's allowance out of my own purse.

His family was accustomed to send a quarterly allowance to him, on condition that he led a quiet life in some retired place, but their last remittance to him was lying unclaimed in Boston, and they thought he must be dead.

130 Verbs to Use for the Word  allowance