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 Holinshed, Raphael
Interest as connected with the sustentation of a certain mode of social life.
From A Critical Examination of Socialism by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
It would seem that the system by which he maintained them was that he assigned to each a region of which the inhabitants were responsible for its manning and its sustentation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
And so all things appertaining to the sustentation of man, in triple and more exceeded their accustomed prices.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
