sustenence

Saw it noble, furnishing family homes with their night's sustenence.

Jordan Zakarin: 'The Ostrich Runs Red': A Bernie Sanders Fan Fiction Noir Jordan Zakarin 2010

It goes in at the top of my stomach, and is the only wasy I can get sustenence.

My shotgun wedding: no going back Elizabeth McClung 2009

So he will propose to ask if the mark would wish to give up as dangerous the peculiar systems that alone ever provided sustenence for millions, to accept security in a system that has only been known to provide poverty and starvation.

[liberty] twilight’s last gleaming 2009

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) will man sustenence-promoting booths in the tents at Bryant Park throughout Fashion Week in partnership with an eating disorders clinic.

Fashion Week Model Forecast: "Skinny Models, Skinny Models" 2008

Would Jesus really make a whole group of people dependent upon government for their sustenence?

Testify and Amen « Whatever 2006

By the way, the folks I invite into my home and offer sustenence to are an accurate reflection on my character.

Little Green Monsters - Anil Dash 2002

I knew that I should have just the one team of horses, and could not replace it, and there would be no barn for them to shelter in, or hay for their sustenence.

The Peace River Country, Past, Present and Future 1929

Page 62 every possible advantage of their master, naturally feeling that all they could get out of him was but a poor sustenence for the work they did.

Allen Parker. Recollections of Slavery Times. 1895

If we must look for spiritual sustenence in the poem, we shall find it perhaps not so much in any definite warning against cruelty to creatures, as in the sentiment of the blessedness of human companionship and the omnipresence of God's mercy; in the passage, _e. g.

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

Prisoners, of war; transfer, custody and sustenence of, 154 officers, crew, &c., of unarmed vessels not to be held as prisoners of war, 154 retaliation on the persons of, 198

The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive. Arranged in Chronological Order. Together with the Constitution for the Provisional Government, and the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States with Indian Tribes: Confederate States of America 1864