sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
And meats ought rather to be taken for sustentation of Nature then for prouocation or motion of thys feeble and Transitorye Fleshe?”
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William
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
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
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
