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1619 J. Bainbridge Astron. Descr. Late Comet 19 Here the Comet is supposed to haue no motion, besides that from the primum mobile: but if hee haue any, as this Comet had, it is easie to make allowance for the same.

1684 Third Dialogue between Pope & Phanatick (new ed.) 33 Making allowance for her Head, and considering that Sacred Linnen did not touch the Ground, and it is as plain as any demonstration in Euclid, that she [sc. the Virgin Mary] was wonderous Tall.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 326 He made no allowance for what the portion of the earth in question perspired at the same time.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 340 I have made allowance for the increase.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. §25. 363 Making allowance for the time required by the sound to ascend from the bottom.

1929 A. C. McKinley Appl. Aerial Photogr. 36 The pilot will crab the airplane in order to make allowances for the wind.

1933 Times 6 July 23/2 The figures..show an estimated dividend..of approximately 3s. 6d. in the £ before making any allowance for costs.

1964 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 128 106 In neither analysis was any allowance made for the variation of the apparent size of Abell's clusters with distance.

2003 J. Knox Archetype, Attachment, Anal. iii. 42 Natural selection makes no allowance for the possibility that Konrad Lorenz may be the first thing that a gosling sets eyes on after hatching.

1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies vi. 90 Divine goodness makes a large allowance for a well-meant errour,..but is severe against even a little crime.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 274. ⁋1 To have proper Allowances made for their Conduct.

1766 F. Blackburne Confessional vi. 192 This very sensible writer begins with making allowances for an (humanly) established authority in matters ecclesiastical.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vii. 81 To make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life. View more context for this quotation

1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. v. 34 He made allowances for her weakness.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 4 Allowance must be made for his constant flattery of his own master.

1921 P. Tucker In Land of Living Dead x. 154 The other letters he had had from Louise were generally short, for she was worked almost to death and he knew it and made allowance for it.

1955 C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy xiii. 94 Freshmen began to make historical allowances for our warped point of view.

1977 B. Bainbridge Injury Time (1978) xiii. 117 He was far too narrow in his outlook to make allowances.

1992 J. Trollope Men & Girls (1993) xiii. 222 You must make allowances for my uncle. He affects rudeness and temper to cover a heart of marshmallow.