dependableness

Example Sentences

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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

She had been accustomed to hear charm and wit 51 and vivacity spoken of in those terms, but dependableness?

From The Camerons of Highboro by Gilchrist, Beth Bradford

This is the time when those who teach her may help her to see the value of promptness, absolute accuracy, and dependableness.

From The Girl in Her Teens by Slattery, Margaret

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

A mighty comfortable soul she was, giving one the nice smooth mother-feeling a man likes in a woman, and yet giving also the clear intelligence and dependableness I used to assume to be masculine qualities.

From Herland by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins