sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The struggles of Garrison and Wendell Phillips for the rescue and sustentation of fugitive slaves are well-known instances of underground conspiracy.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

For his sustentation and comfort he carried on his back a scrip with some bread in it, and a wooden flagon of wine.

From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

And Brahman has been defined as that from which there proceed the origination, sustentation, and retractation of this world.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George

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