sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The air-ship, unlike the aeroplane, is not dependent upon its engines for its power to remain in flight, but derives its sustentation from the hydrogen gas with which it is filled.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
Also of an old Monasterie in the Citie of Yorke, he founded an Hospitall for the sustentation of poore persons and dedicated it to S. Peter.
From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John
He had prepared a sustentation fund scheme for the support of the seceding ministers, and this was at once put into successful operation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
The revenue of the church increased; the grant from the sustentation fund was in 1901 only �75, but from 1903 onwards it was �167.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various