Allowances

Examples

• Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You are readier to make allowances for her than you were yesterday. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am aware of several causes of error, but I hope that I have made due allowances for them. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I come to beg you will make allowances for my anxiety about Marian, and let me follow her at once by the afternoon train. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sir, he said gravely, there are great allowances to be made for a man who has not read ROBINSON CRUSOE since he was a child. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She has been with us a long time: we don't forget her claims upon us, and I hope we know how to make allowances. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am, by nature, one of the most easy-tempered creatures that ever lived--I make allowances for everybody, and I take offence at nothing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Be so kind, Percival, as to make allowances for my foreign habit of going out with the ladies, as well as coming in with them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They are sometimes a little liable to it,' observed the patient cherub; 'but I hope you made allowances, Bella, my dear? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Lily understood the situation and could make allowances for it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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