1 My brother, Harry Pinner, is promoter, and joins the board after allotment as managing director.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk 2 I had my pick of the spoil in the first instance, and much more was allotted to me later on.
3 I know not how she occupied herself before breakfast, but after that meal she divided her time into regular portions, and each hour had its allotted task.
4 They returned within the time Hannah had allotted them: they entered by the kitchen door.
5 A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me.
6 Lucky for you then, Handel," said Herbert, "that you are picked out for her and allotted to her.
7 Fyodor came from a village at some distance from the one in which Levin had once allotted land to his cooperative association.
8 After a short conference, the plan was matured, and rendered more intelligible to the several parties; the different signals were appointed, and the chiefs separated, each to his allotted station.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 31 9 While this scene was going on in the men's sleeping-room, the reader may be curious to take a peep at the corresponding apartment allotted to the women.
10 Tom rose, disconsolate, and stumbled into the cabin that had been allotted to him.
11 All around farms were apportioned and allotted in proportion to the standing of each individual.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 12 So saying, he entered the cabin allotted to him, and taking the torch from the domestic's hand, thanked him, and wished him good-night.
13 Like Balaam and other unwilling prophets, the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 14 By the time that supper was finished the party had again over-eaten themselves, and when Chichikov entered the room allotted him for the night, he lay down upon the bed, and prodded his stomach.
15 Berg and Boris, having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess.