sustentation
Example Sentences
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
He founded a goodlie hospitall in the citie of Yorke, called S. Leonards, for the sustentation and finding of the poore as well brethren as sisters.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus by Raphael Holinshed
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 Wilhelmine von Hillern
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 Edward Hitchcock
We regard it as another law, that the distribution of the sustentation money entrusted to the Church should be a distribution, not discretionary, but fixed by definite enactment.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
