sustentation

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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps a little sustentation of life to the country will be obtained by a wretched peace.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

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 Trollope, Anthony

There are two funds: one subscribed expressly for the building of churches, the other limited to the "sustentation" of incumbents.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

The revenue of the church increased; the grant from the sustentation fund was in 1901 only �75, but from 1903 onwards it was �167.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various