Permitted

Examples

• Staid till midnight, but not permitted to land by these infamous foreigners. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They permitted its development. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I inquired after Sophia, who had not been permitted to visit me because the scarlet fever was considered infectious. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• God only knows whether I shall be permitted to see you again or not. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He would save himself from witnessing again such permitted, encouraged attentions. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I told him that as the terms were written they would not; that only the officers were permitted to take their private property. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The train dispatcher, on the strength of my message that I would hold the train, had permitted another to leave the last station in the opposite direction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He secluded himself as much as the duties of his station permitted. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• May I be permitted to ask, sir,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'to what I am indebted for the favour of—' 'Assuredly,' said the stranger. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The armature circuit had a switch in it which permitted the locomotive to be reversed by reversing the direction of current flow through the armature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I regarded it as a brief holiday, permitted for once to work-weary faculties, rather than as an adventure of life and death. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is not probable, however, that Pemberton would have permitted a close besiegement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But he promised to be silent, and was permitted to remain. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The intermittent grasp and feed of the cloth were hardly perceptible, and yet it permitted the cloth to be turned to make a curved seam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He was permitted to set up his apparatus in the room of the House Committee on Commerce at the Capitol. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When they assured her that they meant the child no harm she permitted them to come close, but would not allow them to touch her charge. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• No one is ever permitted to enter that room save the house-maid in the morning, and my valet, or my wife's maid, during the rest of the day. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It makes our cheeks burn with shame to see such a thing permitted here in Turkey. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Hymns to the Gods, which are the only kind of music admitted into the ideal State, were the only kind which was permitted at Sparta. Plato. The Republic.
• Is it permitted to me to reply? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A knight thus overcome was not permitted to take farther share in the combat. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• His superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tublat's life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• My friend Rosabella permitted her interesting son to pass a week with my impudent nephew, George Woodcock, on our return to Paris. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• True, a great man is permitted to write worse than ordinary people; _mais votre écriture passe la permission_. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• However, he very good-naturedly permitted one to grow tired of him in the like manner, which was more than many great men could pardon. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I bought wholesale and at a low price, and permitted the wives of the engineers and trainmen to have the benefit of the discount. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It would have lowered me in my own estimation to have permitted the interview to continue a moment longer. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I should not have permitted it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And, as accident permitted, I complied with or refused her request. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This last ceremony, foreign custom permitted at such a parting--so solemnto last so long. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Editor: Shanna