sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He had prepared a sustentation fund scheme for the support of the seceding ministers, and this was at once put into successful operation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

But the writer has perhaps learned to regard two glasses of meridian wine as but a moderate amount of sustentation.

From Dr. Wortle's School by Trollope, Anthony

There are two funds: one subscribed expressly for the building of churches, the other limited to the "sustentation" of incumbents.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various