But surely there may allowably exist in the minds of different men different means of arriving at the same security. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
Still, Sir, the motive v, bich may allowably have weight with my friends, ought not to have principal Aveight with me. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Your sister, who would not in your circumstances have been guilty of your perverseness, may allowably be angry at you for it. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Surely, you are not afraid to trust yourself with a secret of this nature: if you are, then you may the more allowably doubt me. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
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There was another and a bright side, which might just as allowably be represented in art as the dreary one, and which she had seen and studied. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
It is quite clear, however, that the local machinery, which was necessarily or allowably resorted to at the outset, ought no longer to be kept up, if further operations are required for the relief of destitution. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Othello seems to anticipate Freud's idea that a man marries in order to recover the lost mother who sent him out into the world some time ago; a forbidden, incestuous desire for the mother's body is transferred allowably onto another, younger woman. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
We may quite allowably heighten the above picture by supposing that the person in her trance, in addition to being mad, might have displayed some of the perceptive powers occasionally developed in trance; and so have evinced, in addition to her demoniacal ferocity, an "uncanny" knowledge of things and persons. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
But may one allowably demonstrate the fallacy of this same point of view?. From Wordnik.com. [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference
Persian, indeed, was allowably absent; because, as a permanent public enemy, he could not safely be present. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference
But we may allowably let the Scripture usage of the symbol of dew influence our reading into the symbol a deeper meaning than it bore to him. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
This needs a short explanation, as the reader may allowably ask how a man without any conception of art could be even a moderately successful artist. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894] Reference
Had she been tall, full formed, and fair, it might have been more of a trial: but as it was, there could be no comparison; and she was most allowably. From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
To the last we may allowably pour out our words with some degree of haste, but the other addresses should be deeply pondered before they are delivered. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference
For though the contemplation of God's glory may in certain times and persons allowably interfere with the active employments of life, as in the case of the. From Wordnik.com. [Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)] Reference
I say, let us imagine a project for organizing a system of scientific teaching, in which the agency of man in the material world cannot allowably be recognized, and may allowably be denied. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
Constitution, as proclaimed and ratified in 1688-9, is in its kind, the noblest work of the human mind working in conjunction with Time, and what in such a case we may allowably call Providence. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
Had she been tall, full formed, and fair, it might have been more of a trial; but as it was, there could be no comparison, and she was most allowably a sweet pretty girl, while they were the finest young women in the country. From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
Had she been tall, full formed, and fair, it might have been more of a trial: but as it was, there could be no comparison; and she was most allowably a sweet, pretty girl, while they were the finest young women in the country. From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
The namespace policy describes how DCMI terms are assigned Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and sets limits on the range of editorial changes that may allowably be made to the labels, definitions, and usage comments associated with existing DCMI terms. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
If heat applied to ice (A) were sometimes followed by a tendency to liquefaction (B) and sometimes not, you would not consider A connected with B as a cause, but only as some variable accompaniment of the true and unknown cause, which might allowably be present or be absent. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
Yet, as mixed mathematics correct, without superseding, the pure science, so I do not see why I may not allowably take a sort of pure philosophical view of the Turks and their position, though it be but abstract and theoretical, and require correction when confronted by the event. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity] Reference
Gwendolen's face had allowably become contented again, since Rex's arm had been reset; and now, at the descriptive suggestions in the latter part of her uncle's speech, her elated spirits made her features less unmanageable than usual; the smiles broke forth, and finally a descending scale of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
Ready however to relinquish his reputation when required so to do, he will not throw it away; and so far as he allowably may, he will cautiously avoid occasions of diminishing it, instead of studiously seeking, or needlessly multiplying them, as seems sometimes to have been the practice of worthy but imprudent men. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.] Reference
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Spacetime can warp faster than you allowably move in space, so it’s a loophole in the light barrier. From Wordnik.com. [10 sci-fi technologies that just might happen « 10 Dots] Reference
And it teaches me to be covetous of time; the only thing of which we can be allowably covetous; since we live but once in this world; and, when gone, are gone from it for ever.’. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
"O'er works of length allowably may creep.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Emily Montague] Reference
O'er works of length allowably may creep. ". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Emily Montague] Reference
At the same time, allow me to place you here an excuse I am conscious of owing you, for having, perhaps, too much affected the figurative style; though surely, it can pass nowhere more allowably than in a subject which is so properly the province of poetry, nay, is poetry itself, pregnant with every flower of imagination and loving metaphors, even were not the natural expressions, for respects of fashion and sound, necessarily forbid it. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Hill, Part X (second letter)] Reference
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