Reliant

Examples

• I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly--persevering, self-reliant, self-denying! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Reliant on Night, confiding in Solitude, I kept my tears sealed, my sobs chained, no longer; they heaved my heart; they tore their way. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Once she is my wife, and away from that influence, she will learn to be more self-reliant, and less biassed by other people. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I led the same secretly unhappy life; but I led it in the same lonely, self-reliant manner. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The visitor, clearly anything but reliant on this assurance, doggedly muttered 'Alfred David. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In a wandering, fighting community the individual must be at once self-reliant and disciplined. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Age, especially when it strives to be self-reliant and cheerful, finds much consideration among the poor. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Wonderfully upright her figure was, and wonderfully self-reliant her look, as, standing facing her visitor, she explained herself further. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• With Mrs. Bretton she was docile and reliant, but not expansive. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Trot, have you got to be firm and self-reliant? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In making him more self-reliant, it may make him more self-sufficient; it may lead to aloofness and indifference. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is your religion--your strange, self-reliant, invulnerable creedwhose influence seems to clothe you in, I know not what, unblessed panoply. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He being of the same mind, and equally reliant on her, we suffered her to take her own road, and took ours, which was towards Highgate. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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