All 4 Uses of
allot
in
Great Expectations
- One was a taller and stouter man than the other, and appeared as a matter of course, according to the mysterious ways of the world, both convict and free, to have had allotted to him the smaller suit of clothes.†
Chpt 28 *
- "Lucky for you then, Handel," said Herbert, "that you are picked out for her and allotted to her.†
Chpt 30
- Some ancient trees before the house were still cut into fashions as formal and unnatural as the hoops and wigs and stiff skirts; but their own allotted places in the great procession of the dead were not far off, and they would soon drop into them and go the silent way of the rest.†
Chpt 33
- The allotted time ran out, while we were thus; but, looking round, I found the governor of the prison standing near me, and he whispered, "You needn't go yet."†
Chpt 56
Definition:
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(allot) to give out -- especially a share of something