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Definition of Indispensables
1. indispensable [n] - See also: indispensable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indispensables
Literary usage of Indispensables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot, and by Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Colville Colville of Culross, Caroline Sheridan Norton (1849)
"... the Rainy and Tornado Seasons — Difficulty of getting a fresh stock of Work-box
indispensables — Set about making Little Shoes — Reluctance of ..."
2. Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1891)
"Nevertheless, he adds—"j'ai réussi, je crois, à écarter l'attaque de M.
Herbert Spencer, et à sauver le fond par des sacrifices indispensables mais ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"My dear Cranmer, I will restore peace and unanimity to your household. Teach your
daughters the true doctrine of indispensables. ..."
4. Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental To: (1) The by Frederic Seebohm (1902)
"... his ' three ' indispensables' were ' a bothy, his herdsman's dog. and a knife;'
and the three indispensables of his bothy were a roof-tree, ..."
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