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
Indeed, this very word "own," which so long ago in our own tongue took to itself the symbol of possession, well exemplifies his dependent state.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
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 Thomas Clarkson
Archie naturally resented her allusion to his penniless and dependent state.
From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick
He was miserably put upon; treated with less consideration than the servants; made to feel his dependent state daily and hourly by petty annoyances; and yet she could not openly interfere!
From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood
