Example Sentences

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And the most serious problem is to make a nation of independent kings who shall not exercise their independencies "perversely or irresponsibly."

From The French in the Heart of America by Finley, John

I spent much labor upon this defaulting portion of Æsop's body of sovereign independencies, which threatened the greatest difficulties.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various

But, oh, Lucy, it is giving up little things, little independencies of thought, little daily habits, which I can't do.

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins

They are well paid, as they deserve to be, for the trying work they have to go through; and many of them have recently returned to their native country with comfortable, if not ample independencies.

From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by Davidson, G. F.