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

Their dependent state was an unnatural state, and when the reaction came, the torrent swept all before it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various

If his dependent state irked him, his hosts did not perceive it.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

The explanation of this lies in the wretchedly dependent state of native authorship at that time.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons

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 Lowell, Percival