underpropping

Presently the establishment of the merchants Birkin lay before us, an establishment of curious aspect, since it constituted, rather, a conglomeration of appendages to a main building of ground floor and attics, with four windows facing on to the street, and a series of underpropping annexes.

Through Russia 2003

Nor has it station; it needs no standing ground as if inadequate to its own sustaining; what calls for such underpropping is the soulless, some material mass that must be based or fall.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Presently the establishment of the merchants Birkin lay before us, an establishment of curious aspect, since it constituted, rather, a conglomeration of appendages to a main building of ground floor and attics, with four windows facing on to the street, and a series of underpropping annexes.

Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

In a few years after, parliament made what my Lord Bacon calls an underpropping aB of the benevolence, by or - daining that the fums, which any perfon had agreed to pay, might be levied by the ordinary courfe of law.

An historical view of the English government, : from the settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the accession, of the House of Stewart. 1790