He talks to Butcher about Marlene, but "when I asked him whether she permitted him to put it up her bottom he smacked me across the lughole.
Elizabeth temporized; but finding that Shane was in danger of becoming a tool in the hands of Spanish intriguers, she permitted him to return to Ireland, recognizing him as "the O'Neill," and chieftain of Tyrone.
He wrote to Mrs. Ford and said he would be passing thru Dearborn on a certain summer evening, and she permitted him to come to the Ford estate, and see the letters.
He asks then if she will permit him to sit and talk to her for a few moments, and once more she is confused by his formality but tells him that he may do as he likes.
Xenophon pledged Aphrodite twenty-five maidens to add to her votive courtesans if she would permit him to win two victories in the Games.
"The psychopath," she writes in her notebook, "is an average man living more clearly than the world permits him".
But at the actual birth she hadn't permitted him to help, and had cursed him for putting her through such agony.
Searching the rubble, she vows that she will never see her man again if only God will permit him to be found alive.
She never married, but for a time she had a lover, a college professor and swim coach whose job did not permit him to leave the university.
Permitting him scope, however, was also ruinous.
