Depended

Examples

• Its completion depended on others. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Obviously, as the cylinder was turned, the needle followed a spiral path whose pitch depended upon that of the feed screw. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I had quite depended upon meeting you there. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Here I felt that my professional existence depended on not holding my tongue. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His real use, his real importance depended upon his individual quality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But it depended upon Steerforth; and he did it with such address, that in a few minutes we were all as easy and as happy as it was possible to be. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If what is good in the world depended on our ability to define it we should be hopeless indeed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Her aunt often expressed a wish for her, but there was no notice, no message from the uncle on whom all depended. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Next followed the thought that much of the future peace of mind enjoyable by the dear ones, depended on his quiet fortitude. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• My dear friend, he is not to be depended on. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Bankers, merchants, and manufacturers, whose trade depended on exports and interchange of wealth, became bankrupt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My whole future depended, in all probability, on my not losing possession of myself at that moment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The rest yielded to Miss Ophelia's urgent representations, that their master's safety depended on their stillness and obedience. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was patent that their power and unity depended upon the swift movement of troops and supplies from one part of the empire to another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mines of Cornwall had become unworkable, and as a great deal depended on the success of the engine in such work, he traveled to Cornwall to make sure that there should be no faults. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Everything depended, now, on what he did next. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He will also be universally esteemed, considered, consulted, depended on--too much so. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She too was the awful, arrogant queen of life, as if she were a queen bee on whom all the rest depended. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And even could it have been found, how were the ladies on whose approval she depended to be induced to give her their patronage? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The cotton passed through the two pairs of rollers, and its extension depended entirely on the difference in the velocity of the revolutions of the two pairs. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• James Laurence is a crotchety old fellow and not to be depended on. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• As to that gentle ice of hers--that reserve on which she had depended; where was it now? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Both utilizations depended upon the supply of current now cheaply obtainable from the dynamo. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The gaining of this object depended, of course, on his still continuing exactly to repeat his proceedings of last year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He depended upon the country to gather his supplies, and so was not affected by delays. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From his shoulders depended a short cape of white fur lined with brilliant scarlet silk. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Thenceforward every person's life and fortune depended on the vile breath of informers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• About his neck hung the golden chain from which depended the diamond encrusted locket of his mother, the Lady Alice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• If a gas is cooled and compressed at the same time, liquefaction occurs much more surely and easily than though either factor alone were depended upon. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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