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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
allowance .
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Examples
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The more, because his funds were in her hands, and she "allowanced" him.
Happy-Thought Hall 1876
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Real ones, Commissioned Officers of HM Customs & Excise could book on But as “allowanced” Officers could not make a money claim, if an incident exceeded 4 hours you could take the hours if you could get the time off
The Truth Behind The £100 Phonecalls « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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But the timber will be allowanced, and the land parcelled out, to each household according to its needs, as soon as either becomes scarce, as is already the case in Russia.
The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
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The wives owned all the property of a married pair, and even allowanced the husbands 'tobacco as they pleased.
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Inmates are not allowanced as to food, but have as much as they want of meat, bread, vegetables and some milk and butter and coffee.
Annual Report of the Board of Public Charities of North Carolina, 1908 North Carolina Board of Public Charities 1909
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` Months and months out of sight of land, and provisions running short, and allowanced as to water, and your mind communing with the mighty ocean, and all that sort of thing? '
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Congress to make me, and allowanced to its meagreness by men who traduced and vilified the loved wife of the great man who made them, and from whom they amassed great fortunes -- for Weed, and
Behind the scenes, 1907
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We found sugar scarce; butter scarce, and bread sharply allowanced in hotels and restaurants.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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Charlottesville, board $10 a day; "allowanced to butter," 35.
A southern girl in '61 : the war-time memories of a Confederate senator's daughter, 1905
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I'd take 'e in for another bottle -- and wan for my nevvy; but I reckon yeou'm shart-allowanced for rum.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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