Allotted

Examples

• She shall serve me the allotted time. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The time allotted to a lesson having fully elapsed, there was a general putting on of bonnets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In this room, after having had their quarters for the night allotted to them by two young Fathers, the travellers presently drew round the hearth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Five mules were allotted to each wagon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A broker desiring to buy shares of a certain stock will go to the part allotted to that stock and call out its name with the number of shares wished and the price he will pay. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Each one of these ideas was born of an original need, served its historical function and survived beyond its allotted time. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Lucky for you then, Handel, said Herbert, that you are picked out for her and allotted to her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She allotted a certain portion of her time for her various studies, and a certain portion for doing anything Miss Ainley might direct her to do. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Each man was allotted his share in the labor, and the work began. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Livius had at least eight people in the small box allotted to him by the manager. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I had charge of the few wagons allotted to the 4th infantry and of the pack train to supplement them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My life, he meant the murder of John Harmon, your allotted husband. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I fought for the lamp for fourteen years, he said, and when I finally won my rights there were but three years of the allotted seventeen left for my patent to live. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As before, Edison was allotted to press report, and remembers very distinctly taking the Presidential message and veto of the District of Columbia bill by President Johnson. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• However I never heard of it after it had run its allotted time, though I think I have seen many worse things last longer. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And then, with his nose coming down over his moustache and his moustache going up and under his nose, repaired to his allotted cell. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• An ample estate was allotted to them, and they took the first rank among the peers of Great Britain. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Each stock listed is allotted to one of the posts seen on the floor, which, during a panic, become the scene of the wildest excitement. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Tom rose, disconsolate, and stumbled into the cabin that had been allotted to him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They returned within the time Hannah had allotted them: they entered by the kitchen door. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• So saying, he entered the cabin allotted to him, and taking the torch from the domestic's hand, thanked him, and wished him good-night. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Some such boons as these were the best which Fortune allotted to poor little Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If this be real, and her allotted time be not yet come, wake, Rachael, wake! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Like Balaam and other unwilling prophets, the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Supposing that the tune allotted to him was the Dead March in Saul. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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