Both Uses of
subsist
in
The House of Mirth
- He who had had to subsist on mere fugitive glances, looks winged in flight and swiftly lost under covert, now found her eyes settling on him with a brooding intensity that fairly dazzled him.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- The dislike, indeed, still subsisted; but it was penetrated here and there by the perception of mitigating qualities in him: of a certain gross kindliness, a rather helpless fidelity of sentiment, which seemed to be struggling through the hard surface of his material ambitions.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(subsist) to survive -- especially without being able to manage comforts or luxuries