She heard the ceaseless buzzing of the flies. How pale his face had been, how weak his body! He had returned to the weakness of a child. He had depended upon her. That fact, that he had for a time utterly depended upon her, had forged a new link in their friendship, the strongest link of all. At least she had felt it to be so. For she was very much of a woman, and full of a secret motherliness. But perhaps he had forgotten all that.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
She was very much tired yesterday. Yesterday...'
She talked on, not knowing what her lips were uttering, and not taking her supplicating and caressing eyes off him. He glanced at her; she blushed, and ceased speaking. `I told you I did not know whether I should be here long... that it depended on you...'
She dropped her head lower and lower, not knowing herself what answer she should make to what was coming. `That it depended on you,' he repeated. `I meant to say... I meant to say...英文原著 · 《ANNA KARENINA》
Name him; name her. You avoid that name like poison, but it is not poison--it is life and peace. More depends on your often recollecting and often pronouncing that hateful name than you would believe. More depends upon it than your minister has ever told you. And, then, in what did you so wrong him? Name the wrong also. Give it its Bible name, its newspaper name, its brutal, vulgar, ill-mannered name. Do not be too soft, do not be too courtly with yourself.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
Here are two infinitives, with the prepositive omitted, "expostulate" and "attempt", both dependent on the noun "time", and another, "withdraw", without the prepositive, dependent on "attempt": "but when 'twas time [to] expostulate, [to] attempt [to] withdraw", etc.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
From my original plan for your education, I meant to make you 'un homme universel'; what depends on me is executed, the little that remains undone depends singly upon you. Do not then disappoint, when you can so easily gratify me. It is your own interest which I am pressing you to pursue, and it is the only return that I desire for all the care and affection of, Yours.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1752》
Of Trade, and how far it depends on Money. That the Encrease of the People depends on Trade. Of Exchange. Trade is Domestick, or Forreign. Domestick Trade is the Imployment of the People, and the Exchange of Goods within the Country. Forreign Trade has several Branches. The Product and Manufacture being more than the Consumption, a part is Exported, and in Return Forreign Goods are brought Home. Selling the Goods Exported at one Port, and Loading there to sell at another; Whereby a greater Return is made, than if the Goods Exported had been carryed directly there.英文原著 · 《Money and Trade Considered》