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- He sustained the insolence of looking straight at her, he would not move, he would not grant the concession of turning away—of acknowledging that he had no right to look at her in such manner.
- It was as if from the wide living room on the first level a hand had moved slowly, shaping the next steps by a sustained touch, then had stopped, had continued in separate movements, each shorter, brusquer, and had ended, torn off, remaining somewhere in the sky.
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as in: sustained by her faith Define
provide support or necessities
as in: sustained through the ages
Define
to continue through time
as in: sustained wounds
Define
to suffer (as of injury, damage, or loss)
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