allowably

Example Sentences

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Your sister, who would not in your circumstances have been guilty of your perverseness, may allowably be angry at you for it.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel

There was another and a bright side, which might just as allowably be represented in art as the dreary one, and which she had seen and studied.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha

So many of this sort of words as are allowably contracted, belong to the class of redundant verbs, among which they may be seen in a subsequent table.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

This needs a short explanation, as the reader may allowably ask how a man without any conception of art could be even a moderately successful artist.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

But may one allowably demonstrate the fallacy of this same point of view?

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch