sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 any who were absent without lawful cause shall forfeit one pound of wax to the sustentation of the said great candle.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

For the growth and sustentation of a forest and of such plants as prefer the woods to the openings it would far excel the deep and exhaustless alluvians of the prairie states.

From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler

But the writer has perhaps learned to regard two glasses of meridian wine as but a moderate amount of sustentation.

From Dr. Wortle's School by Trollope, Anthony