"Allow for" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bitterness. They refused to allow for the difference between a new country and an old land, tilled for many generations. They forgot their struggles across the sea and brought back only stories of prosperity. Emigration had increased, and those who remained whispered of a new ...
— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... you or anybody else," returned Snap. "Whopper is right, we must stake our tent well and allow for the water to run off—-if rain ...
— Young Hunters of the Lake • Ralph Bonehill
... him to haul a pung, finding him slower to learn than a horse, but making up for his dulness by his docility. He had to be driven with a snaffle, refusing absolutely to admit a bit between his teeth; and, with the best good-will in the world, he could never be taught to allow for the pung or sled to which he was harnessed. If left alone for a moment he would walk over fences with it, or through the most tangled thickets, if thereby seemed the most direct way to reach Jabe; and once, when Jabe, vaingloriously and at great speed, drove him in to the Cross ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... to allow for the turning of the wheels and for reversing of the opposite side without moving the valve on ...
— The Traveling Engineers' Association - To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads • Anonymous
... was always one consolation, however, and that was that the greater the storm the sooner it was over. Another thing I should remember when travelling on a lake or over an open country, in a violent snow-storm—I should allow for drifting, much in the same way as one would if ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming
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