sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
The presence of God in his world was thus to be evinced by his regular sustentation of its natural order, rather than by irregular occurrences, such as the deluge, in seeming contravention of it.
From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris
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
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
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
