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  • I pretended I was indispensable to the family business, that the restaurant would fall apart without me to make sure all the salt and pepper shakers were full.†   (source)
  • This form of parking was an indispensable part of the American townscape, even when the cars were foreign-made.†   (source)
  • Basta told me about the man, probably to show me I'm not by any means indispensable.†   (source)
  • When I left the building on Monday morning I did not find the whole of our group out in the road, only a few workers obviously regarded as indispensable.†   (source)
  • The preparations had begun three months earlier, for fear that something indispensable would be left undone for lack of time.†   (source)
  • We are indebted to the numerous writers and researchers whose works have been indispensable to our own perspective on the period.†   (source)
  • The Americans recognized the ANC as an indispensable element of any solution in South Africa.†   (source)
  • I'm pretty much indispensable now.†   (source)
  • As the world has grown more specialized, countless such experts have made themselves similarly indispensable.†   (source)
  • This willingness to work on the ground was indispensable, for most cowboys would rather eat poison than be forced to dismount.†   (source)
  • He wanted both to survive, he said, but his priorities were clear: A son is an indispensable treasure, while a wife is replaceable.†   (source)
  • Leonardo's exercises in anatomy proved indispensable.†   (source)
  • Brutality and violence are merely secondary (and not in the least indispensable) characteristics.†   (source)
  • Washington spoke of the "indispensable necessity of making a bold attempt" on Boston.†   (source)
  • The Security Police was an institution in Sweden that all parties (well, almost all) agreed had an indispensable value.†   (source)
  • In the few short months he had lived with us, Mr. Viccars had become an indispensable companion.†   (source)
  • From his previous life as a reporter, he had a Thomas Brothers Guide, the indispensable book of Los Angeles County street maps, but he thought he knew Mrs. Vadance's neighborhood.†   (source)
  • They know the other is somehow indispensable to them.†   (source)
  • Every other kind and class have stopped, when they so wished, and have presented demands to the world, claiming to be indispensable-except the men who have carried the world on their shoulders, have kept it alive, have endured torture as sole payment, but have never walked out on the human race.†   (source)
  • I find them tedious, childish, foolish and indispensable.†   (source)
  • I'll have you know I'm now a reformed hag and utterly indispensable to this establishment!†   (source)
  • That was the last, indispensable codicil to the law.†   (source)
  • With his indispensable help, all fifty-two Americans came home safely.†   (source)
  • Lobus occipitales and temporalis, the cortex and the connecting fibers of the corpus callosum; the limbic system-specifically the hippocampus and mammillary bodies that together with the fornex were indispensable to memory and recall.†   (source)
  • The indispensable man, huh?†   (source)
  • They are indispensable, if only for protection against the plundering of the Indians.†   (source)
  • Being indispensable's tough work.†   (source)
  • And would be indispensable inside family.†   (source)
  • How central Helen felt then, how naturally indispensable!†   (source)
  • The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health, and I am his Priest.†   (source)
  • Lying was the worst crime, the indispensable accomplice of all others, and would always bring the worst punishment.†   (source)
  • This elite, composed of perhaps only several hundred out of the many thousands of prisoners who populated Auschwitz at any single moment, were those who through maneuvering or, again, by luck, had begun to fulfill some function that the SS deemed indispensable or at least of vital importance.†   (source)
  • He can be proud that he is, as he is frequently told, 'an efficient, modern machine'; he can be proud that he is indispensable to civilization--however little the word may in fact mean to--as Plato says--a man of silver.†   (source)
  • When Kamaswami came to him, to complain about his worries or to reproach him concerning his business, he listened curiously and happily, was puzzled by him, tried to understand him, consented that he was a little bit right, only as much as he considered indispensable, and turned away from him, towards the next person who would ask for him.†   (source)
  • It is an indispensable part of the community.†   (source)
  • For the first time in his life, he understood that his grandfather was indispensable to him.†   (source)
  • He knew that a very important part of his well-being came of staying a few minutes away from home, very quietly, in the dark, listening to the leaves if they moved, and looking at the stars; and that his own, Rufus' own presence, was fully as indispensable to this well-being.†   (source)
  • She still did not plan what would happen when Dick made this money, but she daydreamed continually about herself working in an office, as the efficient and indispensable secretary, herself in the club, the popular elder confidante, herself welcomed in a score of friendly houses, or "taken out" by men who treated her with that comradely affection that was so simple and free from danger.†   (source)
  • Exercise was indispensable, he explained to Charles, who had complained of feeling lethargic.†   (source)
  • If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Korn was a loyal, indispensable ally who got on Colonel Cathcart's nerves.†   (source)
  • Mike always worked perfectly after one of my visits; I was indispensable.†   (source)
  • Many African and Indian men now consider beer indispensable and their daughters' education a luxury.†   (source)
  • They knew that a certain number of troops are indispensable.†   (source)
  • Among that indispensable few, however, Jefferson did not count himself.†   (source)
  • You're just like I am — indispensable!'†   (source)
  • "Indispensable" as strictly applied to captive human beings at Auschwitz would be a non sequitur.†   (source)
  • Harry was an indispensable part of the mingled outpourings of jubilation and mourning, of grief and celebration.†   (source)
  • Three hundred thousand had already been 'resettled'; about a hundred thousand were now left, and only twenty-five thousand of these were to remain in the city, all of them professional people and other workers indispensable to the Germans.†   (source)
  • Mama Elena and Chencha had gone to the market to buy supplies for the baby, who was due any minute; they didn't want to lack any of the things that are indispensable at such a time.†   (source)
  • Most people did not want to be indispensable, because they understood that in highly classified projects like this, once someone was put into a core technical position, it would be very difficult for him to be transferred out.†   (source)
  • In a trance of anxiety, I threw myself into the task of being indispensable to Hobie: running errands, cleaning brushes, helping him inventory his restorations and sort through fittings and old pieces of cabinet wood.†   (source)
  • But when it was indispensable she would, with sorrow in her heart, give free rein to a character of solid iron.†   (source)
  • Foreseeing all kinds of adversities, she taught her to communicate in sign language, an indispensable strategy in forbidden love.†   (source)
  • She heard him, knowing full well that not one of those noises was indispensable, and that he made them on purpose although he pretended not to, just as she was awake and pretended not to be.†   (source)
  • Aureliano Segundo visited her frequently and he brought her clothing which she would place beside the bed along with the things most indispensable for daily life, so that in a short time she had built up a world within reach of her hand.†   (source)
  • He was consistently hardworking, fluent in French, and had made himself all but indispensable to Franklin.†   (source)
  • Max found the drawing's crude labels indispensable, for he had been depicted with red skin, and he absolutely dwarfed the vye, which looked like a black bunny sporting enormous teeth.†   (source)
  • It made him feel indispensable and needed—even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care whether he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.†   (source)
  • So one has to fight oneself all the time; and this means that suffering is not only inevitable, but is an indispensable part of a lifelong education, if only one can learn how to profit by it.†   (source)
  • At the same time, Washington was dealt a further setback when his bright and by-now-indispensable secretary, Joseph Reed, decided he could no longer delay a return to Philadelphia to see to his affairs and look after his family.†   (source)
  • Tired of waiting for the airplane, one day he put his indispensable things into a small suitcase, took his file of correspondence, and left with the idea of returning by air before his concession was turned over to a group of German pilots who had presented the provincial authorities with a more ambitious project than his.†   (source)
  • Although I would not take back my criticisms, I could say that he had made a genuine and indispensable contribution to the peace process.†   (source)
  • And we all—the whole parish—benefited from her barrenness, as she mothered the children who weren't mothered enough in their own crowded crofts, took interest in promising youths who lacked preferment, counseled the troubled, and visited the sick, making herself indispensable in any number of ways to all kinds and classes of people.†   (source)
  • Missionaries have been running indispensable health and education networks in some of the poorest countries for decades, and it would be enormously beneficial to bring their schools and clinics into a global movement to empower women and girls.†   (source)
  • Voluntary contributions just as churches support themselves …. government-sponsored lotteries to which no one need subscribe…. or perhaps you Congressmen should dig down into your own pouches and pay for whatever is needed; that would be one way to keep government down in size to its indispensable functions whatever they may be.†   (source)
  • The old man frowned; he was frightened, not for his life, but for something infinitely more indispensable.†   (source)
  • Until our navy is fully established, moderate garrisons will be an indispensable security against destructive attacks on arsenals and dockyards, and sometimes the fleet itself.†   (source)
  • Nobody is infallible,' Colonel Cathcart said sharply, and then continued vaguely, with an afterthought: 'Nobody is indispensable, either.†   (source)
  • "I thought it my indispensable duty to my country and to Congress, to France and the Count himself, to be explicit," he would say.†   (source)
  • Everyone agrees that it is the result "of a spirit of amity, and the mutual deference and concession that our special political situation made indispensable."†   (source)
  • If someone did have to become indispensable to him, Colonel Cathcart lamented, it could just as easily have been someone wealthy and well groomed, someone from a better family who was more mature than Colonel Korn and who did not treat Colonel Cathcart's desire to become a general as frivolously as Colonel Cathcart secretly suspected Colonel Korn secretly did.†   (source)
  • "We spend no evenings abroad, make no suppers …. avoid every expense that is not held indispensable," Abigail reported to Mary.†   (source)
  • Therefore, it is indispensable.†   (source)
  • I wish you, sir, to believe, and that it be understood in America, that I have done nothing in the late contest but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do by the duty which I owed to my people.†   (source)
  • There is now a Secretary of War, a Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a Secretary for Domestic Affairs, a Board of Treasury—consisting of three persons—a Treasurer, assistants, clerks, etc. These officers are indispensable under any system.†   (source)
  • In fourteen years in Bluffton he had sired two sons and managed to worm his way so completely into Bennington's life and make himself so indispensable that he sometimes seemed like Bennington's third leg.†   (source)
  • He was a professional, of course, required to hold a degree in Outlands arts— hunting, scouting, jackleg mechanics, gunsmithing, farming, first aid, group psychology, survival group tactics, law, and a dozen other things the race has found indispensable when stripped for action.†   (source)
  • …American government, or its representative, the State government, directly, and face to face, once a year--no more--in the person of its tax-gatherer; this is the only mode in which a man situated as I am necessarily meets it; and it then says distinctly, Recognize me; and the simplest, the most effectual, and, in the present posture of affairs, the indispensablest mode of treating with it on this head, of expressing your little satisfaction with and love for it, is to deny it then.†   (source)
  • The deceased did not appear to have been indispensable.†   (source)
  • Hopes, the indispensable evils of Pandora's Box.†   (source)
  • Besides, even Epsilons perform indispensable services.†   (source)
  • Finally, the desire for novelty is indispensable if we are to produce Fashions or Vogues.†   (source)
  • Every precious personality framed dramatically and doing the indispensable work.†   (source)
  • Much had changed in him since that first day in the Ministry of Love, but the final, indispensable, healing change had never happened, until this moment.†   (source)
  • "Each of these files," he had said, keeping his voice even, "plays an indispensable part in the system of F & S." She had brayed at him, "Well, don't tear up the pea patch!" and gone to the door.†   (source)
  • The authorities had the idea of segregating certain particularly affected central areas and permitting only those whose services were indispensable to cross the cordon.†   (source)
  • Special associations between members of the United Nations which have no aggressive point against any other country, which harbor no design incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations, far from being harmful, are beneficial and, as I believe, indispensable.†   (source)
  • Here is a fragment of this ambitious chart: GOODNESS PIETY USEFULNESS Alfonso G. 4 4 10 Nina 2 5 10 Manuel B. 10 10 0 Alfonso V. -8 -10 10 Vera N. 0 10 10 The thing was more difficult than he had foreseen, Almost every soul in a difficult frontier community turned out to be indispensable economically, and the third column was all but useless.†   (source)
  • In that room began a physical isolation, hard enough to bear at first, which later became indispensable to him, mind and body.†   (source)
  • The bold and truly epoch-making writings of the psychoanalysts are indispensable to the student of mythology; for, whatever may be thought of the detailed and sometimes contradictory interpretations of specific cases and problems, Freud, Jung, and their followers have demonstrated irrefutably that the logic, the heroes, and the deeds of myth survive into modern times.†   (source)
  • Since buildings are an indispensable part of life, it follows that architecture must change constantly.†   (source)
  • Special associations between members of the United Nations which have no aggressive point against any other country, which harbor no design incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations, far from being harmful, are beneficial and, as I believe, indispensable.†   (source)
  • And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political conformity.†   (source)
  • From being agreeable, he became indispensable to her; from having been proud of him in public she became a little ashamed, but by that time, between Christmas and Easter, he had become indispensable.†   (source)
  • …with the Goddess" (Magna Mater), or the bliss of infancy regained 3 "Woman as the Temptress," the realization and agony of Oedipus 4 "Atonement with the Father"5 "Apotheosis" 6 "The Ultimate Boon" The return and reintegration with society, which is indispensable to the continuous circulation of spiritual energy into the world, and which, from the standpoint of the community, is the justification of the long retreat, the hero himself may find the most difficult requirement of all.†   (source)
  • He found now that the membership was small—and crucial; it included all his key men, not the big executives, but the rank below, expertly chosen, the active ones, the small, indispensable spark plugs: the best leg men, the general assignment men, the rewrite men, the assistant editors.†   (source)
  • To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.†   (source)
  • He looked as if he did not know that they took his public immolation as their rightful due, that they considered their presence as the indispensable seal of sacrament upon the occasion, that of all the hundreds he and his bride were the only ones to whom the performance was hideous.†   (source)
  • A wedding-tour seems to be quite indispensable nowadays.†   (source)
  • He was competent and indispensable, and he knew it.†   (source)
  • ] Some new books on my special subjects —quite indispensable to me.†   (source)
  • Reason dictated the use of torture as the means to obtain that indispensable confession.†   (source)
  • For him to believe that she was lying, an anticipatory suspicion was indispensable.†   (source)
  • They think it indispensable that he should be upon the spot.'†   (source)
  • —Emma then felt it indispensable to wish him a good night.†   (source)
  • She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness.†   (source)
  • I held the mistress's post in making tea and carving; so I was indispensable at table.†   (source)
  • The strictest economy was indispensable.†   (source)
  • A new science of politics is indispensable to a new world.†   (source)
  • There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.†   (source)
  • Beauty, it is true, and beauty almost perfect in its own style, was indispensable.†   (source)
  • On Wednesday, moreover, your presence is indispensable to me.†   (source)
  • Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man.†   (source)
  • Tikhon Shcherbaty was one of the most indispensable men in their band.†   (source)
  • Allow me to give Grimaud some indispensable orders.†   (source)
  • 'The call MUST originate with me, my dear,' said Mrs Nickleby, 'that's indispensable.†   (source)
  • Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement.†   (source)
  • A doctor not have such an indispensable thing as that!'†   (source)
  • 'Uriah,' she replied, after a moment's hesitation, 'has made himself indispensable to papa.†   (source)
  • "Courage!" he cried to it; "a thousand reforms are indispensable; let us accomplish them!"†   (source)
  • 'It is not indispensable for him to be on the spot.'†   (source)
  • I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man.†   (source)
  • Ah, per Bacco, indispensable, were they?†   (source)
  • Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,—to teach elements.†   (source)
  • I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone.†   (source)
  • "Then," said he, "you are ready to pay the official visits, which are absolutely indispensable?"†   (source)
  • After a night's sleep the news is as indispensable as the breakfast.†   (source)
  • This evening, monsieur, I am detained in Paris by indispensable business.†   (source)
  • "Sir," said Milady, "is your presence an indispensable accessory of my captivity?†   (source)
  • A first-rate valet was the obvious comparison— somebody who walked behind carrying suit cases; could be trusted to send telegrams—indispensable to hostesses.†   (source)
  • With the instinctive generosity of her nature, a courtesy beyond her control, she refrained from uttering the studied words which, she had felt, were indispensable for the full realisation of her desire.†   (source)
  • Much has been said here concerning motive and its importance in this case, but you are to remember that proof of motive is by no means indispensable or essential to conviction.†   (source)
  • He had set forth the theory that, at least as far as his institution was concerned, the summer cure was to be recommended no less than the winter, that it was especially efficacious, indeed absolutely indispensable.†   (source)
  • She had, in short, failed to make herself indispensable; or rather, her attempt to do so had been thwarted by an influence stronger than any she could exert.†   (source)
  • Eliza ended by acquiring an extremely uncommercial script which was a positive extension of her personal beauty, and spending three times as much on stationery as anyone else because certain qualities and shapes of paper became indispensable to her.†   (source)
  • He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want—not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable; he remembered the sense of security he had found in Burne.†   (source)
  • It's indispensable.†   (source)
  • By the way, I think we'll get rid of Pearl Robbins; she's been useful but now she considers herself indispensable.†   (source)
  • He had made himself indispensable in several quarters, amongst others in his department of the government; and yet it was a known fact that Fedor Ivanovitch Epanchin was a man of no education whatever, and had absolutely risen from the ranks.†   (source)
  • Nay, in an average man of the world, his constant rubbing with it blunts that fine spiritual insight indispensable to the understanding of the essential in certain exceptional characters, whether evil ones or good.†   (source)
  • With pain that was like the bitterness of dissolution she murmured the words of her indispensable and sworn answer as an honourable woman.†   (source)
  • The human interest of the new intention—and a human interest is indispensable to the most spiritual and self-sacrificing—was created by a letter from Sue, bearing a fresh postmark.†   (source)
  • This was a lie, but Paul was quite accustomed to lying; found it, indeed, indispensable for overcoming friction.†   (source)
  • I was determined from the first to make my work as janitor so valuable that my services would be indispensable.†   (source)
  • —When you make the next rebellion with hurleysticks, said Stephen, and want the indispensable informer, tell me.†   (source)
  • Perrault was in a hurry, and he prided himself on his knowledge of ice, which knowledge was indispensable, for the fall ice was very thin, and where there was swift water, there was no ice at all.†   (source)
  • She had the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes, and indifferent to money; but she could go without many things which her relations considered indispensable, and Mrs. Lovell Mingott and Mrs. Welland had often been heard to deplore that any one who had enjoyed the cosmopolitan luxuries of Count Olenski's establishments should care so little about "how things were done."†   (source)
  • Its abrogation would have crippled the indispensable fleet, one wholly under canvas, no steam-power, its innumerable sails and thousands of cannon, everything in short, worked by muscle alone; a fleet the more insatiate in demand for men, because then multiplying its ships of all grades against contingencies present and to come of the convulsed Continent.†   (source)
  • I think that the whole future of my race hinges on the question as to whether or not it can make itself of such indispensable value that the people in the town and the state where we reside will feel that our presence is necessary to the happiness and well-being of the community.†   (source)
  • But a certain limitation of mind seems to be an indispensable asset, if not to all public personages, at least to all serious financiers.†   (source)
  • It was indispensable to do something, for she was beginning to shiver, the sheet being but a poor protection.†   (source)
  • At the same time, however, Brookhart having instructed him that, whatever his personal conclusions in regard to Clyde, a lawyer of sorts was indispensable—the charity, if not the honor, of the Griffiths being this much involved, the western Griffiths, as Brookhart had already explained to him, having nothing and not being wanted in the case anyhow—he decided that he must find one before leaving.†   (source)
  • That is, if I change legs now and then, turn over on my other side, so to speak, and of course move around a little every once in a while—that's indispensable.†   (source)
  • But the state of excitement into which Odette's presence never failed to throw him, added to a feverish ailment which, for some time now, had scarcely left him, robbed him of that sense of quiet and comfort which is an indispensable background to the impressions that we derive from nature.†   (source)
  • As I have said, I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.†   (source)
  • He had calculated upon her eventual love, and tried to tempt her with a lavish outlay upon comforts and luxuries, knowing too well how easily the heart accustoms itself to comforts, and how difficult it is to tear one's self away from luxuries which have become habitual and, little by little, indispensable.†   (source)
  • …Topaze_, or when her eyes grew serious, troubled, petulant, if she was afraid of missing the flower-show, or merely of not being in time for tea, with muffins and toast, at the Rue Royale tea-rooms, where she believed that regular attendance was indispensable, and set the seal upon a woman's certificate of 'smartness,' Swann, enraptured, as all of us are, at times, by the natural behaviour of a child, or by the likeness of a portrait, which appears to be on the point of speaking, would…†   (source)
  • …that this legend—even if it were authentic—was something external to Odette, was not inherent in her like a mischievous and ineradicable personality; that the creature who might have been led astray was a woman with frank eyes, a heart full of pity for the sufferings of others, a docile body which he had pressed tightly in his arms and explored with his fingers, a woman of whom he might one day come into absolute possession if he succeeded in making himself indispensable to her.†   (source)
  • SWANN IN LOVE To admit you to the 'little nucleus,' the 'little group,' the 'little clan' at the Verdurins', one condition sufficed, but that one was indispensable; you must give tacit adherence to a Creed one of whose articles was that the young pianist, whom Mme. Verdurin had taken under her patronage that year, and of whom she said "Really, it oughtn't to be allowed, to play Wagner as well as that!" left both Plante and Rubinstein 'sitting'; while Dr. Cottard was a more brilliant…†   (source)
  • …fall in love with a soldier or a fireman, whose uniform makes them less particular about his face; they kiss and believe that beneath the crushing breastplate there beats a heart different from the rest, more gallant, more adventurous, more tender; and so it is that a young king or a crown prince may travel in foreign countries and make the most gratifying conquests, and yet lack entirely that regular and classic profile which would be indispensable, I dare say, in an outside-broker.†   (source)
  • …and not a sister-soul with whom my soul had come to be limited), made me, out of politeness, until the time came when she had to I go, address a thousand polite and trivial remarks to her, and so prevented me both from keeping a silence in which I might at last have laid my hand upon the indispensable, escaped idea, and from uttering the words which might have made that definite progress in the course of our love on which I was always obliged to count only for the following afternoon.†   (source)
  • Fixed ideas of God and human nature are indispensable to the daily practice of men's lives; but the practice of their lives prevents them from acquiring such ideas.†   (source)
  • With the aid of his indispensable cap, he represented a man with his elbows bound fast at his hips, with cords that were knotted behind him.†   (source)
  • Of course there are others besides ourselves in it; but we hold most of the capital; and your mother's indispensable as managing director.†   (source)
  • They were indispensable.†   (source)
  • The Scud had now forged so near in, that it became indispensable to lay her head off shore again, and the necessary orders were given.†   (source)
  • Only then did she remember how she must behave at a ball, and tried to assume the majestic air she considered indispensable for a girl on such an occasion.†   (source)
  • There was no indispensable necessity for my communicating with Joe by letter, inasmuch as he sat beside me and we were alone.†   (source)
  • "I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so; not to be got rid of, that is; which I don't take to be the fact."†   (source)
  • Chapter 38 On Saturday morning Elizabeth and Mr. Collins met for breakfast a few minutes before the others appeared; and he took the opportunity of paying the parting civilities which he deemed indispensably necessary.†   (source)
  • Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.†   (source)
  • That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes.†   (source)
  • His course of reflections upon these singular circumstances was, however, interrupted by the necessity for taking repose, which the fatigue of the preceding day, and the propriety of refreshing himself for the morrow's encounter, rendered alike indispensable.†   (source)
  • He begged food, arranged accommodation, proved a skilful leech for an injury of the groin—such a blow as one may receive rolling down a rock-covered hillside in the dark—and in all things indispensable.†   (source)
  • The shepherd himself, though he had good reason to believe that the bag held nothing but flaxen thread, or else the long rolls of strong linen spun from that thread, was not quite sure that this trade of weaving, indispensable though it was, could be carried on entirely without the help of the Evil One.†   (source)
  • A hundred things which the anxious care of his mother and sister deemed indispensable for his comfort, Nicholas insisted on leaving behind, as they might prove of some after use, or might be convertible into money if occasion required.†   (source)
  • Sitnikovs are indispensable to us.†   (source)
  • Meantime the women drew out and set up the divan, more indispensable to him than the beard down-flowing over his breast, white as Aaron's.†   (source)
  • His engagement was not to terminate with our arrival at Stapi; he was to continue in my uncle's service for the whole period of his scientific researches, for the remuneration of three rixdales a week (about twelve shillings), but it was an express article of the covenant that his wages should be counted out to him every Saturday at six o'clock in the evening, which, according to him, was one indispensable part of the engagement.†   (source)
  • It is, of course, an indispensable part of a scrivener's business to verify the accuracy of his copy, word by word.†   (source)
  • 'Then my aunt invests you with full power,' said Rose, smiling through her tears; 'but pray don't be harder upon the poor fellows than is indispensably necessary.'†   (source)
  • The chief problem of the philosophy of all ages consists just in finding the indispensable connection which exists between individual and social interests.†   (source)
  • But if such men are to be effective they must have some power,—they must be backed by the best public opinion of these communities, and able to wield for their objects and aims such weapons as the experience of the world has taught are indispensable to human progress.†   (source)
  • …dispersed, and all the official world had eaten or dined, each as he could, in accordance with the salary he received and his own fancy; when all were resting from the departmental jar of pens, running to and fro from their own and other people's indispensable occupations, and from all the work that an uneasy man makes willingly for himself, rather than what is necessary; when officials hasten to dedicate to pleasure the time which is left to them, one bolder than the rest going to the…†   (source)
  • From this depended, over the bed, light curtains of rose-colored gauze, striped with silver, supplying that protection from mosquitos which is an indispensable addition to all sleeping accommodation in that climate.†   (source)
  • You'll become famous and indispensable to the Department of Finance, which is so badly off at present.†   (source)
  • She considered it as an act of indispensable duty to clear away the claims of creditors with all the expedition which the most comprehensive retrenchments could secure, and saw no dignity in anything short of it.†   (source)
  • Mrs General It is indispensable to present the accomplished lady who was of sufficient importance in the suite of the Dorrit Family to have a line to herself in the Travellers' Book.†   (source)
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