Vocabulary Word
Word: beholden
Definition: obligated; indebted; owing thanks; obliged or indebted from gratitude
Definition: obligated; indebted; owing thanks; obliged or indebted from gratitude
Sentences Containing 'beholden'
Don Quixote asked her name in order that he might from that time forward know to whom he was beholden for the favour he had received, as he meant to confer upon her some portion of the honour he acquired by the might of his arm.
I am thankful for myself, at any rate, that I can find my tiny way through the world, without being beholden to anyone; and that in return for all that is thrown at me, in folly or vanity, as I go along, I can throw bubbles back.
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