sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Hillern, Wilhelmine von

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 Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Ideals act for good as well as for evil; if they cramp all progress, they nevertheless tend to the sustentation of a certain level of thought.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)

Aeroplane, a flying-machine deriving its power of sustentation from the reaction of the air driven downwards by the rapid transit of fixed wings or 'planes' through the air.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various