1 It was evident that the affair so lightly begun could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of men's will.
2 Platov's division was acting independently of the main army.
3 Only to this aim can we always strive independently of circumstances.
4 Her little feet in their white satin dancing shoes did their work swiftly, lightly, and independently of herself, while her face beamed with ecstatic happiness.
5 In spite of Rostopchin's broadsheets, or because of them or independently of them, the strangest and most contradictory rumors were current in the town.
6 Every event, joyful or sad, that took place in that house was important to all these worlds, but each had its own special reasons to rejoice or grieve over that occurrence independently of the others.
7 I raise my arm to perform an action independently of any cause, but my wish to perform an action without a cause is the cause of my action.
8 This lovely spring roused Levin still more, and strengthened him in his resolution of renouncing all his past and building up his lonely life firmly and independently.
9 He was not by now altogether a part of herself, but sometimes lived his own life independently of her.
10 Her acceptance must be as certain as his offer; and yet there were bad feelings still remaining which made the prospect of it most sorrowful to her, independently, she believed, independently of self.
11 Thank Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of the sword.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 12 She was beginning to have fits of angry rebellion against fate, when she longed to drop out of the race and make an independent life for herself.
13 It is not always easy to be quite independent and self-respecting when one is poor and lives among rich people; I have been careless about money, and have worried about my bills.
14 I can hardly be said to have an independent existence.
15 She felt that these independent citizens, who had been taught that they belonged to a democracy, would resent her trying to play Lady Bountiful.