self-sufficing
Example Sentences
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Even at this self-sufficing period of her life Margaret's journals were full of prayer and aspiration.
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward
What did self-sufficing nature, in this season of early spring love, care for these sounds?
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
It is strength To live four-square, careless of outward shows, And self-sufficing.
From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir
His failure to adjust the customs tariff to the new conditions of a population which was no longer self-sufficing increased distress and discontent with it.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
But this is seriously affected by that doctrine which attempts to regard the Cosmos as self-governing and self-sufficing, needing nothing, and failing in nothing.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
