When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

Greville proposed Quiney as the fittest man `` for the following of the cause and to attend him in the matter '', and at his suggestion the corporation allowed Quiney two shillings a day.

John then allowed him to come.

When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.

The men inside informed him that they had some wounded men among them but he would not be allowed to see them even though he offered medical aid.

Rambert informs Tarrou of his escape plan, but when Tarrou tells him that others in the city, including Dr. Rieux, also have loved ones outside the city whom they are not allowed to see, Rambert becomes sympathetic and changes his mind.

While drawing up the plans, he included a circular staircase leading directly from his office to the outside of the building which allowed him to escape the patronage-seekers waiting for him in his ante-chamber.

This allowed him to rewrite perturbation theory precisely in the form of diagrams.

Despite this, Ajax managed to hide in the altar of an unnamed deity where the Greeks, fearing divine retribution should they kill him and destroy the altar, allowed him to live.

Alaric exiled him for a year to Bordeaux in Aquitania, then allowed him to return unharmed when the crisis had passed.

He allowed Alexios II to be crowned, but was responsible for the death of most of the young emperor's actual or potential defenders, including his mother, his half-sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest voice in public affairs.

* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.

In 1982, after 10 years of stagnation under Clement Stone Jr., the elder Stone, then 79, resumed control until the completion of a merger with Ryan Insurance Co. allowed him to transfer control to Patrick Ryan.

His position and the missionary activity of the church of Bremen allowed him to gather information on the history and the geography of Northern Germany.

Lennon allowed him to stay however, but the conversation had soured considerably.

This purchase allowed him to stand for the county, which was " essential " if one was to lead the Conservative Party at the time.

This allowed him to estimate distances to galaxies whose redshifts had already been measured, mostly by Slipher.

However, Holly chafed under a restrictive atmosphere that allowed him little input.

More specifically in regards to the Mets, critics point out that with Selig's personal relationship with Wilpon has allowed him to stall any possible removal of Wilpon as that club's principal owner.

He was allowed to spend his nights at an inn near the hospital and he was given some extra money to go to the pachinko parlor -- an excellent place to make contact with the enemy.

At that time, some of the East Coast movie makers began to spend winters in California where the climate allowed them to continue productions requiring warm weather.

Brubeck's disbanding of the Quartet at the end of 1967 allowed him more time to compose the longer, extended orchestral and choral works that were occupying his attention ( to say nothing of Brubeck's desire to spend more time with his family ).

However, he allowed the young Earl to spend upwards of £ 1, 000 per annum during the wardship: his tailor's bills alone, from the age of 12 to 16, totalled some £ 600.

< p > I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of post-graduate studies in Naples, Italy.

It is intended for fairly short games, as judges are only allowed to spend two hours playing a game before deciding how many points to award it.

Because the French government did not want to spend too much money on its colony it allowed for the establishment of the so-called Concessionary Companies, monopolies given a free hand to exploit the colony's resources except at a few strategic places, mainly around the Congo River.

Agriculture and writing are almost everywhere associated with this process: agriculture because it allowed for the emergence of a class of people who did not have to spend most of their time providing for their own subsistence, and writing ( or the equivalent of writing, like Inca quipus ) because it made possible the centralization of vital information.

Diagnosed as consumptive ; given only a short time to live, he was allowed to spend his remaining days at his leisure, drawing and painting.

Edison requested the night shift, which allowed him plenty of time to spend at his two favorite pastimes — reading and experimenting.

The money allowed him to purchase a modest estate and spend the rest of his life as an active member of the Indiana Democratic Party, serving as an Indiana State Senator, party chairman, and financial contributor.

Other winemaking decisions that can have a significant effect include the temperature of fermentation and what time, if any, that the wine allowed to spend aging on the lees.

Her second book, A Way of Looking, won the Somerset Maugham award and marked a turning point, as the prize money allowed her to spend nearly three months in Rome, which was a revelation.

The civilian stations Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 were built with two docking ports, which allowed a second crew to visit, bringing a new spacecraft with them ; the Soyuz ferry could spend 90 days in space, after which point it needed to be replaced by a fresh Soyuz spacecraft.

In order to reduce crude oil consumption, the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act mandated maximum speed limits of on public highways and became the first instance where the U. S. federal government began providing funding for ridesharing and states were allowed to spend their highway funds on rideshare demonstration projects.

Opponents, such as Dean Russell in The TVA Idea, in addition to condemning the project as being socialist, argued that TVA created a " hidden loss " by preventing the creation of " factories and jobs that would have come into existence if the government had allowed the taxpayers to spend their money as they wished.

Breeding in particular is likely to have led womenwho used to spend more time than men taking care of the cattleto observations and considerations which gradually allowed them to discover the procreative effect of the sexual act between a male and a female.

There he appears to have lived as a hermit and was put to work in the kitchen, while being allowed to spend much time in private prayer and study.

Despite his being too young to attend, the school allowed him to start in 1938 and he returned to spend the summers with the LaBrosses.

This allowed him to spend time at Yukteswar's ashram in Serampore.

Rennie, a farmer's younger son, was born at Phantassie, near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland, and showed a taste for mechanics at a very early age, and was allowed to spend much time in the workshop of Andrew Meikle, millwright, the inventor of the threshing machine, who lived at Houston Mill on the Phantassie estate.

Garrison's experience as a printer and newspaper editor allowed him to revamp the layout of the paper and freed Lundy to spend more time travelling as an anti-slavery speaker.

The growth of living standards in recent years allowed many dacha owners to spend their discretionary income on improvements.

He was allowed to spend one night at Dakar, then continued to Recife and Montevideo.

University officials defended the program and arrangement stating that it had allowed Missouri State to quickly grow the executive M. B. A. program without having to spend university resources recruiting and marketing overseas.