US automakers have always been behind the times - when they're not, and build something like GM's electric car, they kill it off themselves, lest they be too forward-looking or too "unindebted" to oil money. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Romm: The Car of the Future is Here] Reference
I liked an occasional visit to our little club, where the exciseman, of fifty years standing was our oracle in politics; the attorney, of about the same duration, gave us opinions on the drama, philosophy, and poetry, all equally unindebted to Aristotle; and my mild and excellent father-in-law, the curate, shook his silver locks in gentle laughter at the discussion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828] Reference
But, though a truly Herculean achievement, regarded as that of a single man unindebted to public support, and uncheered by even any very general sympathy in his labors, it was found to be chiefly valuable in its tracings of the Secondary deposits, and strictly exact in only that. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
She well knew how odious this very marriage had rendered her unhappy sister; she understood and sympathized in the religious sentiments of the great mass of her subjects; she felt too all the pride, as well as the felicity, of independence; and looking around with a cheerful confidence on a people who adored her, she formed at once the patriotic resolution to wear her English diadem by the suffrage of the English nation alone, unindebted to the protection and free from the participation of any brother-monarch living, even of him who held the highest place among the potentates of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth] Reference
And unindebted to the oxen yok'd. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
But find thee unindebted, and secure. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
Die blessed, and unindebted for my being. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04] Reference
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