Both Uses of
allegiance
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- …hoping it would be (feeling perhaps that were the simplest and easiest yet not wishing to spoil what had gone so well, knowing how quickly all of a family, all of a clan, all of a band, can turn against a stranger in a quarrel, yet thinking what could be done with the hand were the simplest and best and surgically the most sound now that this had happened), saw also the wife of Pablo standing there and watched her blush proudly and soundly and healthily as the allegiances were given.†
Chpt 4
- The others, who had not opened their mouths after the change of allegiance, were all leaning forward to listen now.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(allegiance) loyalty to a person, group, or cause