All 9 Uses of
sustain
in
The House of Mirth
- It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct of hospitality as because she could not sustain life except in a crowd.†
Chpt 1.4
- "I believe I AM tired: I think I will go to bed," she said; and Mrs. Peniston, suddenly distracted by the discovery that the easel sustaining the late Mr. Peniston's crayon-portrait was not exactly in line with the sofa in front of it, presented an absent-minded brow to her kiss.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity; and the sense of being of importance among the insignificant was enough to restore to Miss Bart the gratifying consciousness of power.†
Chpt 1.10
- Still, the need was not a pressing one; she could worry along, as she had so often done before, with the hope of some happy change of fortune to sustain her; and meanwhile life was gay and beautiful and easy, and she was conscious of figuring not unworthily in such a setting.†
Chpt 2.2
- Happily for both, there was little physical strength to sustain his frenzy.†
Chpt 2.2
- She was not fond of Bertha Dorset, but neither was she without a sense of obligation, the heavier for having so little personal liking to sustain it.†
Chpt 2.2
- What, then, if the passion persisted, though the other motive had ceased to sustain it?†
Chpt 2.5
- For a while she had been sustained by this desire for privacy and independence; but now, perhaps from increasing physical weariness, the lassitude brought about by hours of unwonted confinement, she was beginning to feel acutely the ugliness and discomfort of her surroundings.†
Chpt 2.10
- She did not, in truth, consider the question very closely—the physical craving for sleep was her only sustained sensation.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(sustain as in: sustained by her faith) provide support or necessities