sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Aeroplane, a flying-machine deriving its power of sustentation from the reaction of the air driven downwards by the rapid transit of fixed wings or 'planes' through the air.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
The conditions of their sustentation and generation being given, which no difference of physical circumstances can render incredible, the race may, so far as we can see, go on forever.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
