dependableness

Example Sentences

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If any quality is most desirable, it is that of dependableness.

From Manners and Conduct in School and Out by Anonymous

The more I depended on them the greater was their dependableness, and the little girls grew more tender, the boys more chivalrous.

From The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Th' ain't no finer trait, in my opinion, in man or woman, than dependableness, an' that's another reason I take sech special delight in the little daughter, Mary Elizabeth.

From Sonny, a Christmas Guest by Stuart, Ruth McEnery

It was like a breaking instinct of dependableness; and then he called up Dr. Bennington.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick

After all he was just Billy—the same delightful directness, the same steady eyes, clear to the depths, the same unfailing dependableness, the same infinite understanding.

From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Chapman, Ethel M.