sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The air-ship, unlike the aeroplane, is not dependent upon its engines for its power to remain in flight, but derives its sustentation from the hydrogen gas with which it is filled.

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

Perhaps a little sustentation of life to the country will be obtained by a wretched peace.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

The revenues confiscated were those used for “the finding, maintaining or sustentation of any priest or of any anniversary, or obit, lamp, light or other such things.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 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