1 She was panting, for her stays were laced too tightly to permit much running, but she walked on as rapidly as she could.
2 Charles' aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had written her several times, urging her to permit Scarlett to come to Atlanta for a long visit, and now for the first time Ellen considered it seriously.
3 The carriage plowed its way farther and halted for a moment to permit two ladies with baskets of bandages on their arms to pick precarious passages across the sloppy street on stepping stones.
4 He had refused to permit it and stated heatedly that she had no more sense than a June bug and furthermore it gave him the fidgets to be around her longer than five minutes.
5 At first she tried to stifle the thoughts, but the hard self-honesty that lay at the base of her nature would not permit it.
6 But then, a divorce was unthinkable; and Ellen and Gerald, staunch Catholics that they were, would never permit her to marry a divorced man.
7 If you will permit me, Mrs. Wilkes, I will use what influence I have in Washington to learn about Mr. Wilkes' fate.
8 "If need be, our army will die to the last man before they permit the Yankees to advance farther into Georgia," snapped the doctor.
9 She went hastily up the two short blocks to Peachtree Street, breathing the unfouled air in as deep gulps as her tightly laced corset would permit.
10 She tied the other end to the back of the wagon, as securely as her awkward fingers would permit.
11 Not yet," she said, as gently as the constriction of her throat would permit, "but we will be, soon.
12 For, of course, you know you have more charm than the law should permit.
13 Even if she worked on his sympathies and his duty toward his future family and gained his promise of a loan, she knew Suellen would never permit it.
14 His masculine vanity would not permit such a thought to stay long in his mind.
15 She did so many things a husband should not permit, according to his views, but if he ordered her to stop them, argued or even criticized, a storm broke on his head.