"I begged to nurse her, I wasn't
allowed to, and now I'm blamed for it."
Well, the duke
allowed he would take my bed; but the king
allowed he wouldn't.
He had
allowed himself to be led, pushed, carried, lifted, bound, and bound again.
I rigged up my pile-driver, and
allowed myself fifteen minutes to drive him into the earth -- drive him ALL in -- drive him in till not even the curve of his skull should show above ground.
"Messieurs," said he, "as long as monsieur le cardinal lived, I
allowed him to govern my affairs; but now I mean to govern them myself.
Felix rejected his offers with contempt, yet when he saw the lovely Safie, who was
allowed to visit her father and who by her gestures expressed her lively gratitude, the youth could not help owning to his own mind that the captive possessed a treasure which would fully reward his toil and hazard.
Bingley and Jane, however, soon
allowed the others to outstrip them.
Elizabeth
allowed none of her favorites to love any one but herself, so she punished Raleigh by sending him to the Tower.
Dorothy begged to be
allowed to go first into the palace, but Tiktok firmly maintained that the slave should face danger before the mistress.
She thanked her father warmly for yielding to her wishes, and, seeing him still bowed down with grief, told him that she hoped he would never repent having
allowed her to marry the Sultan.
But with respect to citizens there is a doubt remaining, whether those only are truly so who are
allowed to share in the government, or whether the mechanics also are to be considered as such?
Knightley; so far it was all of course and it was hardly less inevitable that poor little Harriet must be asked to make the eighth:but this invitation was not given with equal satisfaction, and on many accounts Emma was particularly pleased by Harriet's begging to be
allowed to decline it.