What is "beholden"

Usage examples of "beholden".

Actually, as little as I liked the idea of being beholden to Aden at this particular moment, it struck me as a great idea.

Besieged by solicitations for products and services we neither want nor need, misrepresented and misgoverned by corrupt politicians beholden to multinational megacorporations, and reduced to involuntary servitude by usurious financial institutions, we are not so much consumers as we are in danger of being consumed.

She was a hard, feverish, bitter, and over-stimulated woman, and yet she had a kind of harsh loyalty to her family: she was, in a fierce and smouldering way, very ambitious for Abe, who seemed to be the most promising of her brothers: she was determined that he should go to college and become a lawyer, and his fees at the university, in part at any rate, were paid by his sister--in part only, not because Sylvia would not have paid all without complaint, but because Abe insisted on paying as much as he could through his own labour, for Abe, too, had embedded in him a strong granite of independence, the almost surly dislike, of a strong and honest character, of being beholden to anyone for favours.

Father, I am much beholden to this young clerk, who was of service to me and helped me this very morning in Minstead Woods, four miles to the north of the Christchurch road, where I had no call to be, you having ordered it otherwise.

For five hundred cyclics, ever since the founding of the Overclan Seating, this family-without-a-clan had given its sons and daughters to live and work in the sprawling complex that served the Overclan, its members allied to no one, beholden to no one, favoring no one, opposing no one.

Easgathair is not beholden to the second pledgeor even if he is, Morragan has no voice to command it.

That way everyone will see that you have powerful friends, and the Adepts will all be beholden to you.

I will not be beholden to the man whom my reason condemns for any assistance in bringing upon himself the ultimate condemnation of the law.

Most lawmakers are either scared of the NRA, or politically beholden to it.

Zacharias might have cheered to see Wolfhere spoken to in such a way, but he had himself been born to freeholders who had risked farming in the marchlands in order to be beholden to no lord, only to the regnant.

She'd not be the first beholden to me I'd lost to your charms, would she, Delaunay's anguissette?

How much Greek Boccaccio learned from him, and how far he may have been beholden to him in the compilation of his elaborate Latin treatise De Genealogia Deorum, in which he essayed with very curious results to expound the inner meaning of mythology, it is impossible to say.

He enclosed a cover note, explaining in his clerkly style that it was of course only a rough estimate, and that I wasn't beholden to reimburse him penny for penny.

Marcus, indeed, lived and died in great honour, because he came to the empire by way of inheritance and succession, without being beholden either to soldiers or people, and being afterwards endued with many good qualities which recommended him, and made him venerable among them, he kept them both in such order whilst he lived, and held them so strictly to their bounds, that he was never either hated or despised.

Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, “Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain,” and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.