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subsistence
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  • Her father grew worse; her time was more entirely occupied in attending him; her means of subsistence decreased; and in the tenth month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar.†  (source)
  • The subsistence individual, with cropped hair and bony shoulders.†  (source)
  • PoorYoga Janet was a vegetarian and resigned herself to a subsistence diet most of the time.†  (source)
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  • She was managing to survive slightly above the subsistence level, but only because she was lucky.†  (source)
  • I liked the trips of course—I drew operational subsistence which helped.†  (source)
  • There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space — it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole.†  (source)
  • Most of them only see the ungiving soil from which a man must wrestle his subsistence and the barriers that shut him out from the world.†  (source)
  • The ruling class paid African labor a subsistence wage and then added value to the cost of the goods, which they retained for themselves.†  (source)
  • You have never discovered the industrial age-and you cling to the morality of the barbarian eras when a miserable form of human subsistence was produced by the muscular labor of slaves.†  (source)
  • "Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families," Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York.†  (source)
  • However well disposed a person may be, why you see we leave off after a time seeing persons who are in sorrow, they make one melancholy; and so at last old Dantes was left all to himself, and I only saw from time to time strangers go up to him and come down again with some bundle they tried to hide; but I guessed what these bundles were, and that he sold by degrees what he had to pay for his subsistence.†  (source)
  • They will depend on their job for subsistence.†  (source)
  • In the bazaar, Mortenson could see that the people of Baharak, who grew, rather than trafficked, opium, lived in a subsistence economy like the Balti.†  (source)
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