All 8 Uses of
sustain
in
Jane Eyre
- A pause — in which I began to steady the palsy of my nerves, and to feel that the Rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to be shirked, must be firmly sustained.†
Chpt 7
- Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.†
Chpt 8
- She had Roman features and a double chin, disappearing into a throat like a pillar: these features appeared to me not only inflated and darkened, but even furrowed with pride; and the chin was sustained by the same principle, in a position of almost preternatural erectness.†
Chpt 17
- This was the point — this was where the nerve was touched and teased — this was where the fever was sustained and fed: SHE COULD NOT CHARM HIM.†
Chpt 18
- …narrow, and singularly incapable of being led to anything higher, expanded to anything larger — when I found that I could not pass a single evening, nor even a single hour of the day with her in comfort; that kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile — when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the…†
Chpt 27
- The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.†
Chpt 27
- Oh, Providence! sustain me a little longer!†
Chpt 28 *
- I was so fully aware that only serious moods and occupations were acceptable, that in his presence every effort to sustain or follow any other became vain: I fell under a freezing spell.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(sustain as in: sustained by her faith) provide support or necessities