You make no allowance for -- for some possible good in every one.Cited from The Mysterious Rider, by Zane Grey
Is it not perfectly clear that it would be partial and narrow?It would make no allowance at all for people of strong religious experiences.While it might be of some use to these few people, it would never help the great bulk of humanity who need the help of religion the most.…Cited from To Infidelity and Back, by Henry F. Lutz
This is one thing which we did not understand -- had made no allowance for.Cited from Herland [for Mother's Day], Charlotte P. Gilman
Men wants gells as look pretty and make 'em laugh; they don't care for the dull, dowdy ones, such as me; and yet how can a gell be light-hearted and gay, I should like to know, when it's work, work, work, all the day, and nurse, nurse, nurse, all the night?Yet the men don't make no allowance for that -- not they.…Cited from The Farringdons, by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
It made no allowance for what happens when a mad dog starts running through the world.Cited from Out To Win, by Coningsby Dawson
The only feeling aroused in his mind by the words of the legislature was one of resentment.To him they seemed unjust, because they were hard and fast, and made no allowance for circumstances.…Cited from Ginx's Baby, A Satire, by Edward Jenkins?
He summons them up one by one, and if any sort of possibility can be shown of accounting for them in any other way than by the use of our Gospels he dismisses them altogether.He makes no allowance for any residual weight they may have.He does not ask which is the more probable hypothesis.…Cited from The Gospels in the Second Century, by William Sanday
During the whole of Warburton's career, his judgment of the pastoral value of country seems to have been lamentably defective.He made no allowance for the varying nature of the seasons.A suggestion that he made to the South Australian Government to explore the interior, which had turned back such men as Sturt and Gregory, with the aid of the police, verges on the ludicrous.…Cited from The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work, by Ernest Favenc
My uncle spoke of him with contempt, spoke as though he were charged with the care of me through my father's foolishness.I am afraid I made no allowance for my uncle's peculiar temperament.The moment the funeral was over, I turned him out of the house.…Cited from The Lighted Way, by E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Eighth Circuit had ruled that the law would be unconstitutional without a judicial bypass, but that the bypass provision saved it.The law made no allowance for the fact that half the children in Minnesota lived without both biological parents.Justice O'Connor thought the two-parent requirement entailed risk to a pregnant teenager; she also said the rule failed to meet even the lowest standard of judicial review, a rationality standard.…
The four who had been badly wet ran heavily now, yet afraid of ridicule if they fell out.They were having their first taste of High School sports, which made no allowance for quitters.Twenty minutes later a low hurrah went up from the freshmen hounds.…Cited from The High School Freshmen, by H. Irving Hancock
I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good.Cited from David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
They make no allowance for any change that may have occurred in mademoiselle's inclinations.If the journey is now distasteful to her, she has but her own rashness to blame in having sought it herself.…Cited from St. Martin's Summer, by Rafael Sabatini
He was so absorbed with his own complaints as to make no allowance for hers.Yet her health was in a very precarious state, and in the autumn of the same year, his complaints of silence and neglect were suspended by the intelligence that her daughter Sophia was lying at death's door.…Cited from Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi, Part 1, by Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi
He irritated the attendants by persistently doing certain trivial things after they had been forbidden.The attendants made no allowance for his condition of mind.His repetition of a forbidden act was interpreted as deliberate disobedience.…Cited from A Mind That Found Itself, by Clifford Whittingham Beers
You make no allowance for necessity, or the desperation of my condition.In debt myself, and so long a cause of expense and anxiety to my father, whose sacrifices for me have been manifold, and before whom ruin is grimly yawning even now, how could I act otherwise, consistently with the duty of a son?…Cited from Miriam Monfort, by Catherine A. Warfield
The tendency to try to say more has passed unperceived (my fault, that).And you make no allowance for the slowness with which a man finds and tries to learn his tools.I began with a neat brisk little style, and a sharp little knack of partial observation; I have tried to expand my means, but still I can only utter a part of what I wish to say, and am bound to feel; and much of it will die unspoken.…Cited from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol 1
Growth is a factor for which hurried forcing methods make no allowance.Cited from Resonance in Singing and Speaking, by Thomas Fillebrown
Shall we then arrogate to ourselves the sole power of acting unjustly, or of judging of what is expedient?And are we to make no allowance for the standard of right by which the native is guided in the system of policy he may adopt?…Cited from Expeditions into Central Australia, by E. J. Eyre
That the authority at San Jose might dissent with the Padre of San Carmel, or decline to carry out his designs, did not occur to the one-idea'd priest.Like all solitary people, isolated from passing events, he made no allowance for occurrences outside of his routine.Yet at this moment a sudden thought whitened his yellow cheek.…Cited from Frontier Stories, by Bret Harte
