sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Of peculiar fitnesses which make the earth suited to the sustentation of life, as we know that it is, we shall speak hereafter; and at present pass on to the other planets, Venus and Mercury.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

They make the peopling of the earth, with its successive races of inhabitants, a series of events altogether different from the operation of physical laws in the sustentation of existing species.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

For the growth and sustentation of a forest and of such plants as prefer the woods to the openings it would far excel the deep and exhaustless alluvians of the prairie states.

From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler

The fundamental question that had to be answered in that book was the question of the "sustentation" of the new Church.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by Rudd, John