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

And so all things appertaining to the sustentation of man, in triple and more exceeded their accustomed prices.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various

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

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)

Interest as connected with the sustentation of a certain mode of social life.

From A Critical Examination of Socialism by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)