sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The meteoric, or "dynamical," theory of solar sustentation was expounded by him before the British Association in 1853.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

And meats ought rather to be taken for sustentation of Nature then for prouocation or motion of thys feeble and Transitorye Fleshe?”

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

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

The prolonged, delicate, exquisite sustentation of the pictorial tone seems to me a marvel of ingenuity and fancy.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry