dependent state

Example Sentences

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It was hard, she said, to shake off the dependent state of being a prisoner.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011

I am chiefly reconciled to leaving her, because I trust that in her enfeebled, dependent state, she may become influenced by Miss Charlecote and by you.’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Despite the hospitality of his patrons, the poor scholar often felt the bitterness of his dependent state, but he bore it with equanimity, his hand ever eagerly stretched out for the prize of learning.

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.

Every invention of what is called science takes the human race farther and farther from nature, nearer and nearer to an artificial, unnatural and dependent state.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

It does not, however, follow from this account, that there are no poor Quakers, or that members of this society are not born in a dependent state.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Clarkson, Thomas