independent

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So, you see, a girl may be INDEPENDENT, after all!

From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Harte, Bret

Mrs. Pott was regretting the loss of a beau; Mr. Pott his rash pledge to horsewhip the INDEPENDENT; Mr. Winkle his having innocently placed himself in so awkward a situation.

From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles

To quote from an article by Edwin E. Slosson in the INDEPENDENT: Brieux is not one who believes that social evils are to be cured by laws and yet more laws.

From Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author by Brieux, Eugène

The preparations were on the most delightful scale; fully realising the prophetic Pott's anticipations about the gorgeousness of Eastern fairyland, and at once affording a sufficient contradiction to the malignant statements of the reptile INDEPENDENT.

From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles

The man observed too, that, whereas Mr. Pott's scorn had been roused by a newspaper headed the Eatanswill INDEPENDENT, this gentleman's withering contempt was awakened by a newspaper entitled the Eatanswill GAZETTE.

From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles