sustention

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As a result, the terrain peak would move away from its position of coincidence with the time peak on successive dates, producing first, perhaps, a sustention of peak and later a definitely bimodal curve.

From A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 by George H. Lowery.

Accuracy, verisimilitude, sustention, count for nothing in comparison with imaginative adroitness and variety.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John

The pictures by which Miss Cecilia Beaux is represented in this book show very clearly that her genius has dramatic strength, sustention, and flexibility.

From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Sparrow, Walter Shaw

Being in derogation of natural right, it was peculiarly dependent upon artificial sustention; the South would not express the condition in this language, but acted upon the idea none the less.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

I merely confess that to celebrate these rites so frequently requires a sustention of enthusiasm which is beyond me.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch