allow vs stonewall

allow

verb
  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

stonewall

verb
  • To obstruct. 

  • To refuse to answer or cooperate, especially in supplying information. 

adj
  • Certain, definite. 

noun
  • An obstruction. 

  • An alcoholic drink popular in colonial America, consisting of apple cider (or sometimes applejack) mixed with rum (or sometimes gin or whisky). 

  • A refusal to cooperate. 

How often have the words allow and stonewall occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )