But naval custom permits reasonable profit in reward for hazard.

Traditional customs used to manage the reef for hundreds of years permit leaders to set aside portions of the qoliqoli, or traditional fishing ground.

Seemingly, the customs of these barbarians did not permit them to take the wife of another man, and wifehood was demonstrated by production of offspring.

They point out that the customs of the country permit every wife to have four husbands.

No one else had ever dared do that; Alara had never heard of a human concubine dancing such close attendance on her lord, whether or not custom permitted it.

I sensed him rather than saw him, and thought that he had come to succour his master, though I had been assured that their customs did not permit it.

One major difference from the modern theater was that all female parts were played by young boys, Elizabethan custom did not permit women to act.

In places where law or social custom permitted it, some free people of color managed to acquire good agricultural land and slaves and become planters themselves.

Our customs do not permit any men bearing arms within our precincts.

The customs of the country permit every wife to have four husbands.