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  • He has been allotted a vicarious life—a life in which all experiences are at arm's length, all sensations secondhand.†   (source)
  • We kept talking and talking, and it was only when I heard a loud bang on the door that I realized I'd stayed way past my allotted time for the legal visit.†   (source)
  • Laila had to pester him, plead with him, in order to spin out the allotted minutes with Aziza a bit longer.†   (source)
  • "Speaking of points," Jorge responded, the first he'd spoken in at least ten minutes, the allotted time already gone.†   (source)
  • After a period of tense negotiations, money was allotted and a potential calamity averted.†   (source)
  • I tried to explain that I wouldn't need the allotted fifty minutes.†   (source)
  • The Circle was helping to improve it, she knew, and so many of these things were being addressed—homelessness could be helped or fixed, she knew, once the gamification of shelter allotment and public housing in general was complete; they were working on this in the Nara Period—but in the meantime, it was increasingly troubling to be amid the madness outside the gates of the Circle.†   (source)
  • Ask yourself what Hardy thinks of 'God's allotment'—and what does he think of bad luck, of coincidence, of so-called circumstances beyond our control?†   (source)
  • The two men took their allotted places.†   (source)
  • We didn't have as much time as was usually allotted for rehearsals because Thanksgiving came on the last possible day in November, and Hegbert didn't want the play to be performed too close to Christmas, so as not to interfere with "its true meaning."†   (source)
  • He dreamed of it in the way other soldiers dreamed of their hearths or allotments or old civilian jobs.†   (source)
  • After Independence he had himself registered as a Grade I Freedom Fighter and had been allotted a free first-class railway pass for life.†   (source)
  • My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that some day our cities would open up more and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to remind people that we're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big.†   (source)
  • Weren't we, as sentient beings, put upon the earth to be happy, in the brief time allotted to us?†   (source)
  • They stole two cashboxes containing 40 guilders, blank checkbooks and, worst of all, coupons for 330 pounds of sugar, our entire allotment.†   (source)
  • The suites catered to the yuppie set and were a big source of profits for the hospital, bringing in hard cash from couples with money to blow above the standard insurance allotment for deliveries.†   (source)
  • Only two days ago we had been allotted the numbers that meant life.†   (source)
  • For Burnham, each lost moment was a theft from the already scanty fund of time allotted to build the exposition.†   (source)
  • Although she was expecting a third child in September, she would never eat her morning allotment of bread but passed it through the fence to him.†   (source)
  • They were tired enough even on their first day at sea to ignore the noise, fighting back to their precious allotment of sleep.†   (source)
  • But my mother, the queen of organization, drew up a schedule, dividing up days just as she had always allotted chores for PTA drives or Junior League functions.†   (source)
  • The top two or three layers of his conscious mind, which dealt with such things as when he had last shampooed, or whether or not Annie would be on time with his next dope allotment, seemed to have departed the scene entirely.†   (source)
  • I've only allotted so much time to make you stunning, Bella—you might have taken better care of my raw material.†   (source)
  • We sincerely hope that the time allotted for the teams [sic] practice was useful and productive for the coaching staff and the players alike.†   (source)
  • And something else that from that time on would be her reason for living: he convinced her that one comes into the world with a predetermined allotment of lays, and whoever does not use them for whatever reason, one's own or someone else's, willingly or unwillingly, loses them forever.†   (source)
  • We elves are no exception, although we have a greater allotment of spellweavers than most, as a result of oaths we bound ourselves with centuries ago.†   (source)
  • Speaking without notes, learning to reduce or extend my remarks depending on the time allotted, tailoring my remarks on the fly for an intimate setting or for a larger gathering—the opportunities I had speaking in the Philippines provided great training for it all.†   (source)
  • Allot said.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, our allotted hour is up.†   (source)
  • It was a five-year diary; in the four years of its existence she had never neglected to make an entry, though the splendor of several events (Eveanna's wedding, the birth of her nephew) and the drama of others (her first REAL quarrel with Bobby"—a page literally tear-stained) had caused her to usurp space allotted to the future.†   (source)
  • I decided to learn what I could about piracy in the time left allotted me, since it would at least keep my mind off my coming slaughter.†   (source)
  • The din is indeed, rising, the crowd having already passed its allotment of attentiveness.†   (source)
  • La Purisima was one of very few ranches in that part of Mexico retaining the full complement of six square leagues of land allotted by the colonizing legislation of eighteen twenty-four and the owner Don Hector Rocha y Villareal was one of the few hacendados who actually lived on the land he claimed, land which had been in his family for one hundred and seventy years.†   (source)
  • Cuba had food rationing and allotments of coffee adulterated with ground peas, but no starvation, no enforced malnutrition.†   (source)
  • I'd just used up one tenth of my allotment.†   (source)
  • In a spirit of civic enterprise, he regularly allotted a certain amount of free aerial advertising space to General Peckem for the propagation of such messages in the public interest as NEATNESS COUNTS, HASTE MAKES WASTE, and THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER.†   (source)
  • Or an allotment somewhere.†   (source)
  • Would to heaven the few remaining days allotted to us might be enjoyed together.†   (source)
  • Conrad had all the common sense that his children, together, were allotted.†   (source)
  • Our allotted time on the mountain was drawing short.†   (source)
  • For this the architect had allotted twenty-five hundred dollars.†   (source)
  • "And they should be grateful for even that meager allotment," retorted the hare.†   (source)
  • Cora raised her eyebrows, but didn't argue—they were allotted only one glass each tonight.†   (source)
  • Nahuseresh excused himself not long after and returned to the rooms allotted to him and his ambassadorial party.†   (source)
  • Impatience is best handled by allowing an indefinite time for the job, particularly new jobs that require unfamiliar techniques; by doubling the allotted time when circumstances force time planning; and by scaling down the scope of what you want to do.†   (source)
  • Our headmistress allots me thirty conduct marks, and in penance, I am to do her bidding for a week.†   (source)
  • Emancipados were offered at slightly cheaper prices on the market than African-born slaves, or bozales, because the plantation owners were contractually bound to turn them over after the allotted time.†   (source)
  • Instead of siphoning off food for themselves or to bribe the warders, the new cooks used all the food allotted us.†   (source)
  • Even now, barely halfway through the allotted time, Lee had enough for a solid, successful article...more, she knew, than she'd expected to gather.†   (source)
  • Only three days before this year's budget was supposed to be presented, President Danning announced a stunning revision: He has taken back almost a billion dollars allotted to the military and is channeling it into public education, as well as nationwide shelters for homeless women and children.†   (source)
  • After their allotted time, Coach Terrence called his team in and as the two teams passed, Mario dropped his glove and nearly tripped over it.†   (source)
  • They say little in the hours allotted them.†   (source)
  • Please have patience for the allotted time.†   (source)
  • The door would be closed, and they would be left outside, dismissed to await allotted work or punishment.†   (source)
  • My granda's allotment's that way.†   (source)
  • Along the side of the house, Mr. Owner keeps two garbage cans, a black one for us and a brown one for him, just so we don't mix up our garbage and end up filling more than our allotted space.†   (source)
  • Puller seriously doubted the man could run the Army two-mile in the allotted time.†   (source)
  • It has quarters for crew, shuttle bays, the main command center, which is initially going to be using only ten percent of its allotted space, and resupply docks.†   (source)
  • When I had taken out the allotted portion for the next day I would bury the remainder: one half, tied in a white cloth, in a hole I dug some distance from our hut, the other half in our granary.†   (source)
  • The helpless detainees clambering into open-top trucks, each clutching their allotted one suitcase.†   (source)
  • Dwight kept the submarine hove-to head into the wind for most of the day till everyone had had his allotted half-hour in the fresh air, but few of the men stayed on the bridge so long.†   (source)
  • It had been my lunchtime custom to go down to Forty-second Street and pick up the early afternoon edition of the Post along with a sandwich, both of which I would consume in my office during the hour allotted me.†   (source)
  • Here are the rich boy and the poor boy and Mr. Barlow, their teacher and interlocutor, in long discourses alternating with dramatic scenes—danger and rescue allotted to the rich and the poor respectively.†   (source)
  • I'll allot half for the lighthouse and the other half for your own business.†   (source)
  • Peyton came in, carefully balancing the tiny pot of steaming water allotted for his morning shave.†   (source)
  • Both were paid in what was then the highest currency-credit slips for an allotment of articles from the first of the newly opened distribution centers.†   (source)
  • These started with committee reports— the committee on food resources and natural conservation, the committees on artifacts and inventory, on waste disposal and camp sanitation, on exterior security, on human resources and labor allotment, on recruitment and immigration, on conservation of arts and sciences, on constitution, codification, and justice, on food preparation, on housing and city planning— Cowper seemed to enjoy the endless talk and Rod was forced to admit that the others appeared to have a good time, too— he surprised himself by discovering that he too looked forward to the evenings.†   (source)
  • Some one thousand tickets were printed for admission to the Senate galleries during the trial, and every conceivable device was used to obtain one of the four tickets allotted each Senator.†   (source)
  • "I have allotted ten minutes per applicant for my final screening interview," the Chief was snapping to an assistant.†   (source)
  • He built twenty beehives himself; and planted an acre of a special kind of grass near the bee-allotment.†   (source)
  • My allotted time for speaking has come and gone, but I must say something.†   (source)
  • The central authorities were allotting scant food to Ofuna, but this wasn't the half of it.†   (source)
  • Nearly half of the hour allotted by Voldemort for his surrender had elapsed.†   (source)
  • We need more land than you allotted us—†   (source)
  • "How true ...," agreed the concierge (as he sorted through an allotment of tickets).†   (source)
  • Louie allotted one water tin per man, with each man allowed two or three sips a day.†   (source)
  • They looked forward to it all day long— because it was the moment allotted for Zut.†   (source)
  • I never used all my allotted vacation time.†   (source)
  • My mouth started to water, even as I rejected the portion I'd been allotted.†   (source)
  • He thinks if we don't impress them they'll cut back on his dealer perk allotment.†   (source)
  • "I think we need to readjust our outlook here," Lana said toward the end of their allotted time.†   (source)
  • We don't get the same water allotment on Walden that you do on Phoenix.†   (source)
  • "He'd take his allotment of six Saturday afternoon beers and take off alone," Thompson remembered.†   (source)
  • She'd taken more than her allotted ten minutes before she joined the line herself.†   (source)
  • After 120 days, the time allotted for occupying the island, U.S. casualties could reach 395,000.†   (source)
  • I continue to sleep in my allotted cell, and I wear the same clothing and eat the same breakfast, in silence if you can call it silence, forty women, most of them in here for nothing worse than stealing, who sit chewing their bread with their mouths open and slurping their tea in order to make a noise of some sort even if not speech, with an edifying Bible passage read out loud.†   (source)
  • They think instead of doing their duty and of promotion to the Angels, and of being allowed possibly to marry, and then, if they are able to gain enough power and live to be old enough, of being allotted a Handmaid of their own.†   (source)
  • "The plan was to kill you on the camping trip, but Allot failed to convince you to come," Jules said.†   (source)
  • In exhibit space, he told them, the fair would he at least one-third larger than what the French had allotted in Paris.†   (source)
  • it was clear from internal evidence that she was among the first wave of women recruited for reproductive purposes and allotted to those who both required such services and could lay claim to them through their position in the elite.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure how necessary it was, however, as I was usually able to read and process most of the questions in the allotted time; and having 50 percent additional time didn't seem to make any answers that I didn't know come to mind.†   (source)
  • He did his duty for all Party organizations, and was always the first to volunteer for the menial tasks allotted to children aspiring to Party membership, which he knew was the only path to success or even comfort in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • The Red Cross was allotting one food pack per person in line, about a day's supply of calories, and after three days the other groups on our floor—the group in the hallway, the ones with Rory, and the ones with Richard—had built up their supplies, surviving on starvation-level rations, where we'd nearly run out.†   (source)
  • Allot was almost dead.†   (source)
  • Small allotments of foul tobacco were handed out, and Louie, like almost all captives, resumed the habit.†   (source)
  • Fitzgerald noted in his diary that after officials were done "brown bagging" their way through the seventy pounds of sugar allotted to the captives, one teacup of sugar remained.†   (source)
  • If you weren't one of the few golden children, anointed early for the AP-Ivy League fast track, you made your choices with the minimal and usually disinterested help of one of the three guidance counselors allotted for the entire class.†   (source)
  • Arrayed around them were his twelve elven guards, as well as an equal number of Nasuada's guards, the Nighthawks, increased from her normal allotment of six for the duration of the battle.†   (source)
  • She continued licking her foot, restoring every scale to pristine brilliance, while first Martland, then the man-with-round-ears-who-was-Ulhart, then Roran, told a tale of blood and fire and of laughing men who refused to die at their allotted times but insisted upon continuing to fight long past when Angvard had called their names.†   (source)
  • I'd allotted plenty of time, however, and felt sure we would arrive at the restaurant in time to make our reservation.†   (source)
  • He imagined his grandfather waiting for him at the gates of the afterworld, and he didn't want to have to tell him that he'd spent the last few hours allotted to him napping.†   (source)
  • They rode the horses at a gallop and they rode them at a trot and the horses were hot and lathered and squatted and stamped in the road and the campesinos afoot in the road with baskets of garden-stuff or pails covered with cheesecloth would press to the edge of the road or climb through the roadside brush and cactus to watch wide eyed the young horsemen on their horses passing and the horses mouthing froth and champing and the riders calling to one another in their alien tongue and passing in a muted fury that seemed scarcely to be contained in the space allotted them and yet leaving all unchanged where they had been: dust, sunlight, a singing bird.†   (source)
  • Just when they were on the verge of sawing it in two, so each would have her allotted share, Papa settled the squabble by giving the oldest one a silver dollar.†   (source)
  • Though Congress would allot $14,000 to purchase furniture, Adams worried that on his salary of $25,000, it would be impossible to make ends meet.†   (source)
  • Still, the presidency would be a "glorious reward" for all his service to the country, should Providence allot him the task.†   (source)
  • After building herself an enormous sandwich, Bryan took out the one suitcase she'd been allotted for the trip and tossed in the essentials.†   (source)
  • She was desperate for a drink, but it'd be hours before they brought her dinner tray and her evening water allotment.†   (source)
  • He knew that Burr was being allotted, by an almost specific consent, this free and unmolested time till dawn, to meet in conspiracy, for the sake of continuing and perfecting the secret.†   (source)
  • Far back in the winter, Virgie Rainey would have been allotted a piece that was the most difficult Miss Eckhart could find in the music cabinet.†   (source)
  • There it was proposed to settle the refugees for the winter and to send the supplies that were allotted to them.†   (source)
  • I was determined that before our last leave-taking Sophie and Nathan would hear my voice; the indecency of the Reverend DeWitt having the final word was more than I could abide, and so I thumbed diligently through the section generously allotted to Emily Dickinson, in search of the loveliest statement I could find.†   (source)
  • There were too many conscripts for the cars allotted to them, and the overflow had been put among the civilian passengers, including those of the fourteenth car.†   (source)
  • The old lady-as though she were the waiter's own mother, or the V.M., thought Gabriella-finally accepted his bowl of fruit, and Gabriella was allotted, from her fork, a little brown-skinned pear.†   (source)
  • In this room, after having had their quarters for the night allotted to them by two young Fathers, the travellers presently drew round the hearth.†   (source)
  • And then, with his nose coming down over his moustache and his moustache going up and under his nose, repaired to his allotted cell.†   (source)
  • All he had asked was to be allotted light duties: he was too old for anything else.†   (source)
  • After his death, when his allotments Stopped coming.†   (source)
  • I saw it as a perfect mosaic, each person playing his or her allotted part.†   (source)
  • Someone from Brigade will allot the rooms.†   (source)
  • He has a suspicion of his allotted place in the world, a suspicion of the Immortals, a suspicion that he may meet himself face to face; and he is aware of the existence of that mirror in which he has such bitter need to look and from which he shrinks in such deathly fear.†   (source)
  • We had been allotted to one of the recently formed regiments, but were first to be sent back for equipment to the garrison, not to the reinforcement-depot, or course, but to another barracks.†   (source)
  • As though, Byron thought, the entire affair had been a lot of people performing a play and that now and at last they had all played out the parts which had been allotted them and now they could live quietly with one another.†   (source)
  • It was a part of his twenty years' heritage of breathing the same air and hearing his father talk about the man; a part of the town's—Jefferson's—eighty years' heritage of the same air which the man himself had breathed between this September afternoon in 1909 and that Sunday morning in June in 1833 when he first rode into town out of no discernible past and acquired his land no one knew how and built his house, his mansion, apparently out of nothing and married Ellen Coldfield and begot his two children—the son who widowed the daughter who had not yet been a bride—and so accomplished his allotted course to its violent (Miss Coldfield at least would have said, just) end.†   (source)
  • Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer!†   (source)
  • The longest life will be only twenty years; one cubit will be the greatest stature and eight ribs the meager allotment.†   (source)
  • And now there is nothing for it but I must misdoubt my own eyes or else believe that at last you are beginning to accept what the Lord has seen fit to allot you.†   (source)
  • Hurstwood laid down his fifteen cents and crept off with weary steps to his allotted room.†   (source)
  • The number allotted to my stepfather was "18."†   (source)
  • If this be real, and her allotted time be not yet come, wake, Rachael, wake!†   (source)
  • And yet nobody prolonged his underwater work beyond the time allotted him.†   (source)
  • Some such boons as these were the best which Fortune allotted to poor little Amelia.†   (source)
  • How much time she might, in her own fancy, allot for its dominion, is another concern.†   (source)
  • Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?'†   (source)
  • The time allotted to a lesson having fully elapsed, there was a general putting on of bonnets.†   (source)
  • "Lucky for you then, Handel," said Herbert, "that you are picked out for her and allotted to her.†   (source)
  • They returned within the time Hannah had allotted them: they entered by the kitchen door.†   (source)
  • [32] In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded the Court and allotted the lodgings†   (source)
  • Tom rose, disconsolate, and stumbled into the cabin that had been allotted to him.†   (source)
  • She was allotted the spare room in Jude's house, whither she retired early, and where they could hear her through the ceiling below, honestly saying the Lord's Prayer in a loud voice, as the Rubric directed.†   (source)
  • Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeyfield in his triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began.†   (source)
  • There had been much doubt whether one would be allotted to Queen's, but the matter was settled at last, and at the end of the year the graduate who made the highest mark in English and English Literature would win the scholarship—two hundred and fifty dollars a year for four years at Redmond College.†   (source)
  • It had been a bad autumn in Wall Street, where prices fell in accordance with that peculiar law which proves railway stocks and bales of cotton to be more sensitive to the allotment of executive power than many estimable citizens trained to all the advantages of self-government.†   (source)
  • She knew, moreover, that her skinflint relatives would hardly want to hear anything about the expense of transporting her home after her demise and that she would be allotted a modest plot up above for a final resting place.†   (source)
  • It was nowise allotted who that hoard should despoil,
    Sithence without warden some deal that there was
    The men now beheld in the hall there a-wonning,
    Lying there fleeting; little mourn'd any,
    That they in all haste outward should ferry
    The dear treasures.†   (source)
  • Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about.†   (source)
  • Supposing he had spent his seven years in Winchester Gaol or whatever it is that inscrutable and blind justice allots to you for following your natural but ill-timed inclinations—there would have arrived a stage when nodding gossips on the Kursaal terrace would have said, "Poor fellow," thinking of his ruined career.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, when Margarita crossed the stage and sang the only two lines allotted her in this second act: "No, my lord, not a lady am I, nor yet a beauty, And do not need an arm to help me on my way," Carlotta was received with enthusiastic applause.†   (source)
  • He espied him the following afternoon, in his first dog-watch, below, one of the smokers on that forward part of the upper gun deck allotted to the pipe.†   (source)
  • "I can't stand much of this," said Hurstwood, whose legs ached him painfully, as he sat down upon the miserable bunk in the small, lightless chamber allotted to him.†   (source)
  • And finally, nature has so limited my capacity for work or activity of any kind, in allotting me but three weeks of time, that suicide is about the only thing left that I can begin and end in the time of my own free will.†   (source)
  • She knew she could not count on her continuity of purpose, and what really frightened her was the thought that she might gradually accommodate herself to remaining indefinitely in Trenor's debt, as she had accommodated herself to the part allotted her on the Sabrina, and as she had so nearly drifted into acquiescing with Stancy's scheme for the advancement of Mrs. Hatch.†   (source)
  • "Now, Felix," said Angel drily, "we are very good friends, you know; each of us treading our allotted circles; but if it comes to intellectual grasp, I think you, as a contented dogmatist, had better leave mine alone, and inquire what has become of yours."†   (source)
  • The spot where Claggart stood was the place allotted to men of lesser grades seeking some more particular interview either with the officer-of-the-deck or the Captain himself.†   (source)
  • Prior to that event, however, was Christmas, two days of festivities—or three, if you counted Christmas Eve—that Hans Castorp had awaited with some anxiety, shaking his head now and then, wondering what they would be like here, only to discover that they came and went like normal days with a morning, afternoon, and evening, with the usual whims of the weather (a slight thaw set in), and were indistinguishable from others of their sort, apart from a little external decoration and the mood that held sway in people's hearts and minds for the time allotted to them, until the days moved on, becoming a recent, then distant past silted with a few novel impressions.†   (source)
  • That done, the drum beat the retreat, and toned by music and religious rites subserving the discipline and purpose of war, the men in their wonted orderly manner, dispersed to the places allotted them when not at the guns.†   (source)
  • It was now the season for planting and sowing; many gardens and allotments of the villagers had already received their spring tillage; but the garden and the allotment of the Durbeyfields were behindhand.†   (source)
  • There was another interval before Mrs. Peniston's lawyer, who was also one of the executors, replied to the effect that, some questions having arisen relative to the interpretation of the will, he and his associates might not be in a position to pay the legacies till the close of the twelvemonth legally allotted for their settlement.†   (source)
  • Besides these three rooms there was another small one at the end of the passage, close to the kitchen, which was allotted to General Ivolgin, the nominal master of the house, who slept on a wide sofa, and was obliged to pass into and out of his room through the kitchen, and up or down the back stairs.†   (source)
  • As soon as twilight succeeded to sunset the flare of the couch-grass and cabbage-stalk fires began to light up the allotments fitfully, their outlines appearing and disappearing under the dense smoke as wafted by the wind.†   (source)
  • With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, tho' readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it; a nature like Claggart's surcharged with energy as such natures almost invariably are, what recourse is left to it but to recoil upon itself and like the scorpion for which the Creator alone is responsible, act out to the end the part allotted it.†   (source)
  • And indeed a man of Claggart's accomplishments, without prior nautical experience, entering the navy at mature life, as he did, and necessarily allotted at the start to the lowest grade in it; a man, too, who never made allusion to his previous life ashore; these were circumstances which in the dearth of exact knowledge as to his true antecedents opened to the invidious a vague field for unfavorable surmise.†   (source)
  • It was now the season for planting and sowing; many gardens and allotments of the villagers had already received their spring tillage; but the garden and the allotment of the Durbeyfields were behindhand.†   (source)
  • At the earliest moment she obtained what others she could procure, and in a few days her father was well enough to see to the garden, under Tess's persuasive efforts: while she herself undertook the allotment-plot which they rented in a field a couple of hundred yards out of the village.†   (source)
  • I know not how she occupied herself before breakfast, but after that meal she divided her time into regular portions, and each hour had its allotted task.†   (source)
  • He allots the imposts, taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Honor is simply that peculiar rule, founded upon a peculiar state of society, by the application of which a people or a class allot praise or blame.†   (source)
  • At the well known, methodic intervals, the whale's glittering spout was regularly announced from the manned mast-heads; and when he would be reported as just gone down, Ahab would take the time, and then pacing the deck, binnacle-watch in hand, so soon as the last second of the allotted hour expired, his voice was heard.†   (source)
  • All its allotted length of days,
    The flower ripens in its place,
    Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
    Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.†   (source)
  • I think a reasonable husband ought to be satisfied with passing his allotted time with any particular wife in this world, and not to go about moping for things unattainable.†   (source)
  • In course of their journey the friends came to the river, which they followed with the windings of the road, now over bold bluffs, and then into vales, all alike allotted for country-seats, and if the land was in full foliage of oak and sycamore and myrtle, and bay and arbutus, and perfuming jasmine, the river was bright with slanted sunlight, which would have slept where it fell but for ships in endless procession, gliding with the current, tacking for the wind, or bounding under the impulse of oars—some coming, some going, and all suggestive of the sea, and distant peoples, and famous places, and things coveted on account of their rarity.†   (source)
  • Berg and Boris, having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess.†   (source)
  • The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.†   (source)
  • My example was instantly followed by the whole party, amid bursts of merriment, as each remarked the funny attitude and odd gestures of his neighbours while vehemently rubbing, rasping, grating and grinding down the roots allotted to him.†   (source)
  • He slept, however, for it was the hour he had allotted to that refreshment, and because he knew how impotent any exertions to recover his effects must prove in the darkness of midnight.†   (source)
  • Having further disposed of a slice of bread and butter, allotted to him in virtue of his office, he sat himself down, to wait for school-time.†   (source)
  • At the end of September the timber had been carted for building the cattleyard on the land that had been allotted to the association of peasants, and the butter from the cows was sold and the profits divided.†   (source)
  • It was desirable that chaplaincies of this kind should be entered on with a fervent intention: they were peculiar opportunities for spiritual influence; and while it was good that a salary should be allotted, there was the more need for scrupulous watching lest the office should be perverted into a mere question of salary.†   (source)
  • Like Balaam and other unwilling prophets, the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no. This unweeting manner of performance is the true ring by which, in this refurbishing age, a fossilized survival may be known from a spurious reproduction.†   (source)
  • in which other nations have undertaken to intrude themselves into it, between us and the proper parties to the case, in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.†   (source)
  • He thought of the miserable portion which Providence had allotted to him; that woman and the pleasure of love, would pass forever before his eyes, and that he should never do anything but behold the felicity of others.†   (source)
  • Her allotted hour having been passed in chatting and looking on, Bathsheba told Liddy not to hurry herself, and went to the small parlour to prepare for departure, which, like the hall, was decorated with holly and ivy, and well lighted up.†   (source)
  • While this scene was going on in the men's sleeping-room, the reader may be curious to take a peep at the corresponding apartment allotted to the women.†   (source)
  • In France the space allotted to commercial advertisements is very limited, and the intelligence is not considerable, but the most essential part of the journal is that which contains the discussion of the politics of the day.†   (source)
  • Thus Elizabeth found that the Scotchman was located in a room quite close to the small one that had been allotted to herself and her mother.†   (source)
  • So saying, he entered the cabin allotted to him, and taking the torch from the domestic's hand, thanked him, and wished him good-night.†   (source)
  • Don't speak of Marseilles, I beg of you, Maximilian; that one word brings back my mother to my recollection—my angel mother, who died too soon for myself and all who knew her; but who, after watching over her child during the brief period allotted to her in this world, now, I fondly hope, watches from her home in heaven.†   (source)
  • A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me.†   (source)
  • After a short conference, the plan was matured, and rendered more intelligible to the several parties; the different signals were appointed, and the chiefs separated, each to his allotted station.†   (source)
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