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
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 George Jacob Holyoake
The Fishmongers had a grant of power to hold land "for the sustentation of the poor men and women of the said commonalty."
From Memorials of Old London Volume I by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
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
