It is true that a supervening government, established upon another, always reduces a certain portion of the dependants upon the latter to want.
Were the dependants and officers belonging to the court paid in the same punctual manner?
Generally, monks were reluctant to the utmost, and even directly opposed to the sale of men in the markets, and the dependants of a monastery were never sold in such a manner.
He is said to be truly possessed of Wealth who cherishes his dependants with objects of enjoyment, and afflicts his foes with punishments.
Did not you provide thosedependants who surround me?
He walked boldly across the hall; and his presence excited no suspicion, it being impossible for the dependants collected together at the other end to observe the nature of his garb at that distance.
Hundreds of their dependants followed these great nobles to find a fortune in the English realm.
Her name was Lurlee, to which her title of Khanum being added, she was known among her friends and dependants as Lurlee Khanum; and she will appear presently in her proper person.
The whole collections have, with great management, amounted to about twelve lacs of rupees, from which sum he has to support his troops, his family, and several relations and dependants of the late Rohilla chiefs.
Mexicans still speak of the epoch when they or their parents "swam in gold," or dispensed ducats to the dependants on whom they now reluctantly bestow coppers.
It is hard to suffer hunger and to see our dependants die of starvation, when we are both able and willing to work for wages but can obtain no work upon which to exercise our ingenuity or our hands.
To all her dependants she was a kind and indulgent mistress, ever ready to forgive shortcomings, and to relieve the wants of humble vassals when overtaken by pinching poverty.
Eustace grew up a handsome youth, of a high spirit but an urbane and generous nature, which endeared him to all the dependants of Hawksglen.
Yet a third nucleus was formed by the dependants of royalty, the fiscalini, and followers of the monarch and of the Swabian dukes.
They built schools also, where the children of the tenants and dependants received gratuitously from the monks themselves, an education similar to that at present imparted in our primary schools.
Further west was a tribune or gallery, where guests and the dependants of the monastery assisted at Divine Service, Office and Mass.
The district was then populous; for another village grew up near the Abbey occupied by tradesmen and dependants who were constantly employed by the monks.
The spiritual wants of the tenants and dependants were attended to by one of the monks, John Byrrel, whose name occurs first in the list of those belonging to Mellifont to whom pensions were granted.
At length the assembled chiefs swore an oath to stand by the Earl of Mar, and to bring their friends and dependants to do the same.
Meantime several noblemen and gentlemen, both in England and in Scotland, influenced by the Earl of Mar, began to collect their servants and dependants from different places, and under various pretexts, for their proceedings.
He sent messengers to the several dependantswho held their fiefs by the tenure of cornage, and warned them to be on the alert, that he might receive instant notice of the approach of the enemy.
He was no favourite with his dependants at Blackstone, any more than with his neighbours around the Hold.
I suppose made her dependants lead her own sad life.
His sister is always in the hand of one greedy favorite or another, through whose eyes she sees, and to whose flattery or dependants she gives away everything.
Her dependants one after another relieved guard--'twas rather a dangerous post to play with her ladyship--and took the cards turn about.
This self-content of his kept him in general good-humor, of which his friends and dependants got the benefit.
At last the god Hara and his consorts being all reconciled to one another together with their dependants and vehicles, retired to their respective quarters with gladness of their minds.
This abode is occupied by its owner or the haughty house holder--Ahankara or egoism, who dwells in it with his favourite consort Puryashtaka, and his dependants of the Tanmatras at all times.
Then they took their meals with their Brahman guests, and members of the family; and their dependants and servants were fed one after the other, according to the rules and customs of their order and caste.
His dependants are thus kept out of doors for the time, that he is absorbed in meditation.
If an Irishman comes to London to make his fortune, he has a half-dozen of Irish dependants who take a percentage of his earnings.
He had a crowd of poor dependantsbesides those hungry children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dependants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
