"Dependent upon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... known that the stems of many plants occasionally become spirally twisted in a monstrous manner; and after my paper was read before the Linnean Society, Dr. Maxwell Masters remarked to me in a letter that "some of these cases, if not all, are dependent upon some obstacle or resistance to their upward growth." This conclusion agrees with what I have said about the twisting of stems, which have twined round rugged supports; but does not preclude the twisting being ...
— The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants • Charles Darwin
... little house at Aiken, in South Carolina, that he was with us most and we learned to know him best, and that he and I became dependent upon each other ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... a sensible arrangement of the matter," Montez continued, coaxingly. Indeed, the Mexican had suddenly come to see that he was absolutely dependent upon the young Americans if he hoped to sell his mine in ...
— The Young Engineers in Mexico • H. Irving Hancock
... phenomena. It is the result of the creation of the universe by life itself. It was life itself which threw the moon apart on the one hand, the sun on the other. And it is life itself which keeps the dynamic-vital relation constant between the moon and the living individuals of the globe. The moon is as dependent upon the life of individuals, for her continued existence, as each single individual is dependent upon ...
— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence
... a varied life, sometimes dependent upon his relatives, and at others making his way in various political positions. From the date above he was embroiled in heated political controversies in which his bitter writings made him feared even by his friends and fiercely ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester
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