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

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

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 Bertha Thomas

Surely, you are not afraid to trust yourself with a secret of this nature: if you are, then you may the more allowably doubt me.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

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 Philip Gilbert Hamerton

To the last we may allowably pour out our words with some degree of haste, but the other addresses should be deeply pondered before they are delivered.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin




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