Sentence examples for a handsome allowance from inspiring English sources

Lowry, an Englishman with a Cambridge degree and a handsome allowance — his father was a wealthy cotton broker in Liverpool — believed his destiny was to be a great writer.

Late in life she described it as "some unignorable old uncle, to whom you have to be grateful because he makes you a handsome allowance, but is often an embarrassment and a bore".

She likened the book to "some unignorable old uncle, to whom you have to be grateful because he makes you a handsome allowance, but is often an embarrassment and a bore".

The bulk of his fortune went to a second cousin – George Augustus Herbert, eleventh earl of Pembroke – but Fitz and his family were left annuities for life totalling £2,100 a year, a very handsome allowance.

A handsome pale girl.

A handsome woman.

They were a handsome couple.

Am I a handsome man?

"He's a handsome guy".

A handsome face.

A handsome, eloquent retrospective.