sustentation
Example Sentences
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
The problem is,—To find an Ultimate Ground, a Final Cause, which shall be adequate to account for the existence and sustentation of this Universe.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
And any who were absent without lawful cause shall forfeit one pound of wax to the sustentation of the said great candle.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
But the writer has perhaps learned to regard two glasses of meridian wine as but a moderate amount of sustentation.
From Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope
Deriving its power of sustentation from the gas contained in the gas-bag, the free balloon is spherical in form.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
