Sentence Examples:
"Stunts not permissible, sir?"
Such burlesque is never permissible.
Pinkish tones in sheer material permissible.
Is falsity permissible under any circumstances?
A digression about these marriages is permissible.
He pleaded for a peg, if permissible.
Dark grays brightened by trimming, permissible.
Inaction was not therefore permissible to him.
No scrap of vibrating metal was permissible.
Geysers are permissible, but mud is terrifying.
Floyd, and no peeping is permissible there.
Are compass curves permissible in appendage design?
It is permissible to the bravest to be startled.
No scolding of servants is permissible in a hotel.
This is the lowest permissible limit of thoroughness.
He considered that this little ruse was permissible.
Encores are permissible, but loud applause is undeniably vulgar.
After the emperor had laughed hilarity was permissible.
Is it permissible to carry on the simile still further?
After three months have passed gray stationery is permissible.
To a writer that generally means legally permissible plagiarism.
This is the minimum permissible slope of the siphon.
Under no circumstances are dark walls and woodwork permissible.
King, ace, two, is not, therefore, permissible as a sequence.
Permissible exaggeration makes him the arbiter of peace or war.
It is permissible for us to-day to invert that proposition.
Dribbling the ball lip through the posts is permissible.
Is an insurrection of oppressed slaves against their masters permissible?
"No, they are a superfluity only permissible to old age."
Roof one-third pitch, plain gable, decks over driveway if permissible.
Atrocities, whether regarded as permissible or as inevitable, certainly occurred.
Permissible for a dress that is smartly designed and trimmed.
Reprisals are permissible only by order of the higher commanders.
For coarse fish like perch and pike, a bait was permissible.
I may seem to have outrun already the limits of permissible hypothesis.
Grundy was not on hand, anything harmlessly enjoyable was permissible.
In Brook Street it is permissible, it is laudable, to introduce yourself.
Lately the degree of nudity considered permissible has been largely increased.
That sunflower compliment is permissible in an old friend, isn't it?
Restorations are only permissible at the hands of most conscientious craftsmen.
Soon they were in the open, and a fast canter became permissible.
There was war between them, and every stratagem was permissible.
Ah, no, a certain latitude is permissible in these matters, you understand.
Many details are vague and vagueness is not permissible in a serious edition.
They saw in their defenseless comrade a permissible subject for dissection.
Bathing is permissible, but it is safe to use only a lukewarm bath.
"There are cases where perjury is permissible," says the Countess, indifferently.
It is permissible in all forms of occupation in a practically unrestricted shape.
At noon, which should be their dinner-time, a more varied diet is permissible.
We pity the fly as (if the image is permissible) the underdog.
Heavier ware is permissible, and more latitude in the way of decoration is given.
Since when has it been permissible to offer tenants a tallow candle?
How far was it permissible for me to deviate from my course?
If a surmise be permissible, Bacon did not invent, he discovered gunpowder.
Apart from the addition of spices no other vegetable admixtures are permissible.
Are there not circumstances which render connivance at suicide more than permissible?
If you favor whiskers, call and see his inimitable museum of permissible patterns.
As applied to acts, permissible only to prefects or those of senior standing.
This is the last thing in which haphazard methods would be permissible.
Recourse to burning to prevent recapture was permissible only with enemy's vessels.
It is even permissible to say that he took physics or cosmology too lightly.
All these permissible palliatives tended to recreate tone and allay nervous depression.
It is weird in the extreme, and, if the expression be permissible, gypsy-like.
The day is long since past when vague eulogy of Shakespeare is permissible.
The argument was specious, but it is not permissible to repeat it to-day.
No salt or other corrosive chemical is permissible as a protection against freezing.
It was more like the seat (if the expression be permissible) of a centaur.
This asteroid, small as it was, was barely below the permissible limit.
In emergencies, it is of course permissible to kill a few dozen innocent bystanders.
One must flatter the unfortunate: it is the only flattery that is permissible.
Haphazard statements or description are no more permissible in a poem than in a novel.
To do this has become entirely permissible for prima donnas in this character.
This guess, if permissible, would contain a clue to a possible explanation of clairvoyance.
This shews that the rime was permissible, and the difference extremely slight.
Sometimes it is permissible and even opportune to fire off truth of all sorts.
A little sugar to sweeten it is permissible; it does not alter the flavor.
The maximum permissible distance between rivets should be used in the transverse joint.
No scrubbing or sweeping with ordinary brooms is permissible on a polished hardwood floor.
It is therefore permissible to consider it as yielding an annual income of four thousand francs.
The most delicate tints are permissible, but should be used only in small quantities.
Drunkenness was rife at those feasts; and this excess was looked upon as permissible.
For most companies, popular rather than botanical names of the trees are permissible.
Is it not permissible for us to do everything to annoy those devils of Turks?
In a paper on his books, it is permissible to end with a bookish anecdote.
I was pleased with the swiftness with which he struck upon a permissible compromise.
Short rests are permissible but if overdone they result in stiff muscles and chill.
These forceps give the greatest permissible freedom of movement to the head during traction.
He was shaving and had on the minimum of clothes permissible to receive a visitor.
It is best when these come unsolicited, though it is permissible to ask for them.
You've got to where there's no permissible area that you haven't canvassed a hundred times.
When it was permissible, sometimes when it was not permissible, he indulged her caprices.
Only in this glass is color permissible, and then principally in receptacles for flowers.
Then, the only mirth permissible was satanic, the mirth of Mephistopheles or of Manfred.
A certain amount of abbreviation and clipping of words is permissible in colloquial and rapid speaking.
It is permissible therefore to assume that he selected his colors for their allegorical signification.
These small deceptions are permissible between lovers, when they are used to such felicitous purpose.
Undoubtedly, whatever praise they might use in speaking of that flowery land would be permissible.
No intervention will be of any avail, save perhaps the permissible intervention of praise and congratulations.
Is it permissible to purchase one's freedom at the cost of the life of one's jailers?