dependences

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Here, though, the men’s relationship, with its kindness, virtues and mutual dependences, also offers a vision of an American dream not yet wholly corrupted by unbridled self-interest.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019

She gave nearly as much milk as the other two, and had been one of the main dependences of the family.

From The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California by Alger, Horatio

A wiser and more benevolent instructor would teach him, on the contrary, to acknowledge his dependences and avoiding forbidden things, to partake with cheerfulness of the material blessings which surround him.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Kerr, Robert

But yet it is less danger to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than great in dependences.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

But yet it is less danger, to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than great in dependences.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis