self-sufficing
Example Sentences
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In some men, the passion to succeed is clogged by the fear of failure; in others, the sense of their greatness is self-sufficing and indisposes them to effort.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
In Cornwall, however, the housewife still bakes her own bread and is in other ways more self-sufficing, and let us add more thrifty, than elsewhere.
From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by Scott, C. A. Dawson
The vast majority of fathers feel dismally constrained, indeed, and out of countenance in the presence of their girls—so smart and sophisticated, so superior, critical and self-sufficing are our latter-day school and college-maidens.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
Paraguay was an isolated and almost self-sufficing commonwealth.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.
Most of this plateau is included in the great state of Minas, the most populous member of the Brazilian union, which is agriculturally self-sufficing, and one of the great mineral regions of the world.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.
