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  • But since we were so far out of the line of fire, the chief sustenance for any sense of the war was mental.†   (source)
  • Harry ventured out under the Invisibility Cloak to find sustenance.†   (source)
  • This was the last mess she had to serve, but as soon as she was done feeding them, she had to get ready for the next ones, since the revolutionaries who had received their sacred sustenance at the first breakfast mess were coming back to eat, and so on and so on, until ten at night, when she was done serving the last supper.†   (source)
  • You need sustenance.†   (source)
  • Sustenance," he said, pushing aside a stack of newspapers to clear off the desk.†   (source)
  • That means 'Servant of the Opener of the Gates of Sustenance.'†   (source)
  • It didn't seem to stack up to enough sustenance for the two dozen families in our village.†   (source)
  • Nearly every religion has some liturgical or social ritual involving the coming together of the faithful to share sustenance.†   (source)
  • I figured the chowder would be good for sustenance on my journey, all that milk and stuff.†   (source)
  • For sustenance, prison guards took sandwiches, fashioned them into balls, and threw them over the wall of the stadium and onto the field.†   (source)
  • They re actually dead their hearts do not beat, they have no need to eat, so the blood provides no sustenance for them.†   (source)
  • Tales were told at these places that people from all over now gathered to hear, for the tales of these natives felt appropriate to this time of migration, and gave listeners much-needed sustenance.†   (source)
  • Whitney reminded Papa of Fujiyama, that is, it gave him the same kind of spiritual sustenance.†   (source)
  • I will place certain enchantments around you that will keep men and beasts from troubling you and will cause animals to bring you sustenance when you need it.†   (source)
  • The next morning he asked for a glass of milk, the first sustenance he had volunteered to accept in fourteen weeks.†   (source)
  • Love was sustenance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.†   (source)
  • They brought this into the death chamber and, one by one, the family members implored Ameh Bozorg to take sustenance.†   (source)
  • She forced herself to look at him; she might never see that look again; and it had been her sustenance so long!†   (source)
  • Suddenly, However all those days with little or no sustenance hit me in one awful instant.†   (source)
  • Parents provide love and affection in the early years of childhood; deprived of early emotional sustenance, children will be irreparably harmed.†   (source)
  • She rejected the milk from the borrowed cow, fiercely; lustily she demanded—and eventually received—her own legitimate, unborrowed sustenance.†   (source)
  • He said there was no sustenance in it for them.†   (source)
  • The bigger problem is that it won't allow her to get the sustenance she needs.†   (source)
  • Plus, if you really went deep into the meaning of gifts, dishes equaled food, food equaled sustenance, and sustenance equaled life, which meant that by giving even one plastic fork I was basically saying I wanted to take care of Dexter forever and ever, amen.†   (source)
  • In two swallows I ate the soft white roll, more air than sustenance.†   (source)
  • And to be honest, they were grateful for the respite and sustenance, stretching luxuriously on the cushions and drinking a large quantity of tea.†   (source)
  • They were always attended by the same impassive, silent Indian, who constantly sucked a green ball of coca leaves that was his chief sustenance.†   (source)
  • Often, as we went by, we heard mumbled requests, last words spoken to a son or daughter and repeated now as final sustenance: "Leave me.†   (source)
  • Also now I have gained on him in the question of sustenance It was dark now as it becomes dark quickly after the sun sets in September.†   (source)
  • Everyone except Cedric orders food-he's already eaten and has no money, anyway— but the conversation, ricocheting across the table, offers plenty of sustenance.†   (source)
  • Think of them as sustenance.†   (source)
  • "Sustenance, comestibles, rations!" the dog replied.†   (source)
  • And sustenance for what we are about to do tonight.†   (source)
  • When my dad heard, he told me that the point of hunting was to take some sustenance from the animal, whether we eat it or skin it or something, otherwise it was a waste of a life.†   (source)
  • I swear I hear the words return: "T …. h …. e d …. o …. w …. e …. r." Though these words make no sense to me, I am grateful for any sibilance, any sustenance to what previously was discerned as only wind.†   (source)
  • Even when acceptance is achieved and a degree of happiness attained, joy often remains elusive forever, like a promise of water in a dry well once brimming but now holding only the deep, damp smell of past sustenance.†   (source)
  • And there was no food, beyond their failing horses, fish taken from the lakes (fewer every day), and whatever meagre sustenance their foragers could find in these cold, dead woods.†   (source)
  • It is evil to earn more than one's bare sustenance?†   (source)
  • A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demeanor, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience and all that gives him sustenance and enter a limbo in which he will no longer be black, and in which he knows that he can never become white.†   (source)
  • Only Legolas still stepped as lightly as ever, his feet hardly seeming to press the grass. leaving no footprints as he passed; but in the waybread of the Elves he found all the sustenance that he needed, and he could sleep, if sleep it could be called by Men, resting his mind in the strange paths of elvish dreams, even as he walked open-eyed in the light of this world.†   (source)
  • But I drew energy and sustenance from the surge of the Corps around me.†   (source)
  • The God who allowed me to feel His presence--whether by the warmth that filled my belly like hot chocolate on a cold afternoon, or that voice, whenever I found myself in the tempest of life's storms, telling me (even when I was told I was "nothing") that I was something, that I was His, and that even amid the desertion of the man who gave me his name and his DNA and little else, I might find in Him sustenance.†   (source)
  • All greater daemona eat souls—it's their primary sustenance.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps more to the point, what ought we see, for best sustenance and contentment and sense of purpose to our days?†   (source)
  • He had neglected to eat, but lack of sustenance seemed only to lighten him as he rose into the thinning air.†   (source)
  • When I was a very young boy, much of our food and sustenance came from the land around us.†   (source)
  • We think and out-think; we take sustenance from our manipulations.†   (source)
  • Then Kaila, who is the God of the Sky, told the woman the caribou was the greatest gift of all, for the caribou would be the sustenance of man.†   (source)
  • "Have you had sufficient sustenance to suffice?" he asked when the meal was done, and Jim said, "What is this word suffice?" and Mark told him it meant "Have you had enough to eat?"†   (source)
  • Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it.†   (source)
  • I forgot my own being, abandoned my limited range of senses as I swam in a sea that was neither dark nor light, formed nor formless, yet knowing my way, subsumed, as it were, within a perpetual act of that thing we had decided to call ludus that was creation, destruction, and sustenance, patterned and infinitely repatterned, scattered and joined, mounting and descending, divorced from all temporal phenomena yet containing the essence of time.†   (source)
  • Close to the surface was the tuber-like yam; spread out around and beneath it were its flowers and leaves, drawing from the soil that sustenance which the air of the desert denied.†   (source)
  • He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained.   (source)
  • Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation.†   (source)
  • This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity.†   (source)
  • It was support and vindication; it was sustenance and sum.†   (source)
  • Surely it would need sustenance before long?†   (source)
  • Without their sustenance, we could not live in the Beors.†   (source)
  • On Earth, they would be the breadwinners, the ones who leave the home and bring back sustenance.†   (source)
  • For their …. for their sustenance and support.†   (source)
  • His body is given to him, its sustenance is not.†   (source)
  • For her refuge and sustenance, Barbara still relies on the church, which continues to grow.†   (source)
  • But more sustenance than I'd had in days.†   (source)
  • I hold one of her twitching hands, unclear whether it moves from the poison that affected our nerves, the shock of the attack, or withdrawal from the drug that was her sustenance.†   (source)
  • My appetite vanished and my digestive system, which required abundant oxygen to metabolize food, failed to make use of much of what I forced myself to eat; instead my body began consuming itself for sustenance.†   (source)
  • Here in Kimvula District we're working with farmers on a soybean project, trying to establish a cooperative—a tiny outpost of reasonable sustenance in the belly of Mobutu's beast.†   (source)
  • Richard Parker had been a zoo animal as long as he could remember, and he was used to sustenance coming to him without his lifting a paw.†   (source)
  • You make the night to pass into the day and You make the day to pass into the night, and You bring forth the living from the dead and You bring forth the dead from the living, and You give sustenance to whom You please without measure.†   (source)
  • Give sustenance to me.†   (source)
  • It's the amount of taste and sustenance you get from any given snack," Maggie explained as Leah grabbed a box of Tic Tacs, shaking them.†   (source)
  • The ants were acting as shepherds for aphids, driving and protecting them, as well as extracting sustenance from them by massaging the aphids' bellies with the tips of their antennae.†   (source)
  • Walking through the thicket of chairs, he glanced at people who would ride with him on the way to Monte Prato, though most would leave the streetcar in advance of the last stop, and some even before it lowered its whip-like antennae, switched to diesel, and ran far beyond the grid of electrical wires from which it took its sustenance on the streets of the city.†   (source)
  • I still see Papa sitting on our steps for long hours, smoking cigarettes in his ivory holder, staring into the mountains he went to with his eyes whenever he needed sustenance.†   (source)
  • The man Freud can make all the claims he wants (he is said to attribute nearly every phobia and fear to the physical intimacies between man and woman-sex! disregarding in the process the drive for sustenance, survival and power).†   (source)
  • Craved down time when I had to gear up, sustenance though I might throw it up, silence when I knew my family would be waiting to share news of the day.†   (source)
  • There is a group of humans—drudges, actually—who donate their services in order to help a small, unusual sect of vampires—those against the idea of killing humans or forcing them to act as sustenance.†   (source)
  • I believe you've developed an unhealthy reliance upon them, as if they and not rice and tea were your main sustenance.†   (source)
  • Cedric shakes his head, remembering the smell from Ballou's halls, from lost kids who seemed to rely on their pot for basic sustenance and sanity.†   (source)
  • "Very well," she said, "I shall charge you for your room and board-it is against our rules to provide the unearned sustenance of another human being.†   (source)
  • Is Nelly sustenance?†   (source)
  • Now. it was still like a stream of blood, but like the one-way stream that runs from a wound, draining the last of a body's sustenance and life.†   (source)
  • But with the world turning into People's States, this is the only country left where men are not yet reduced to digging for roots in forests for their sustenance-so this is the only market left on earth.†   (source)
  • They proclaim that every man born is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance'-his food, his clothes, his shelter-with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright.†   (source)
  • …thought that the magnificence of a world where men could afford the time and the effortless concern for such things as starched napkins and tinkling ice cubes, offered to travelers along with their meals for the price of a few dollars, was a remnant of the age when the sustenance of one's life had not been made a crime and a meal had not been a matter of running a race with death-a remnant which was soon to vanish, like the white filling station on the edge of the weeds of the jungle.†   (source)
  • She did not know why he so adored things that were so long dead; what sustenance they gave him, what secrets he hoped to wrest from them.†   (source)
  • Great satire needs the sustenance of great fable.†   (source)
  • For the primitive hunting peoples of those remotest human millennia when the sabertooth tiger, the mammoth, and the lesser presences of the animal kingdom were the primary manifestations of what was alien—the source at once of danger, and of sustenance—the great human problem was to become linked psychologically to the task of sharing the wilderness with these beings.†   (source)
  • I saw him as Chancellor, flattered by the King, Liked or feared by courtiers, in their over bearing fashion, MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL 885 Despised and despising, always isolated, Never one among them, always insecure; His pride always feeding upon his own virtues, Pride drawing sustenance from impartiality, Pride drawing sustenance from generosity, Loathing power given by temporal devolution, Wishing subjection to God alone.†   (source)
  • …the meagre ditch-side herbs to protect and guarantee what Spartan compromise we dared or had the time to make with illness, harried and nagged that Jones into working the corn and cutting the wood which was to be our winter's warmth and sustenance; —the three of us, three women: I drafted by circumstance at too soon an age into a pinch-penny housewifery which might have existed just as well upon a lighthouse rock, which had not even taught me how to cultivate a bed of flowers, let…†   (source)
  • His vanishing sum suggested that he would need sustenance.†   (source)
  • The whole of our flourishing municipal life derives its sustenance from a lie!†   (source)
  • There is a wonderful amount of sustenance in the first few words of love.†   (source)
  • In his relations with them, he seemed to be in quest of mental food, not heart-sustenance.†   (source)
  • May the Lord increase the sustenance that is so precious to them, for their complaint is just, too.†   (source)
  • For the rest, the only thing to eat—though it didn't look eatable in the least—I saw in their possession was a few lumps of some stuff like half-cooked dough, of a dirty lavender color, they kept wrapped in leaves, and now and then swallowed a piece of, but so small that it seemed done more for the looks of the thing than for any serious purpose of sustenance.†   (source)
  • Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realisation would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat, a quest of ravenous animals, to be torn and slashed by their hungry fangs, to be sustenance to them as the moose and the rabbit had often been sustenance to him.†   (source)
  • Often enough had he tried to reach those lips against her consent—often had he said gaily that her mouth and breath tasted of the butter and eggs and milk and honey on which she mainly lived, that he drew sustenance from them, and other follies of that sort.†   (source)
  • Hare marked the tufts of grass lying far apart on the yellow earth; evidently there was sustenance enough in every two feet of ground to support only one tuft.†   (source)
  • It bore the imprint of the law offices of McGregor, James and Hay, and with a very formal "Dear Sir," and "We beg to state," went on to inform him briefly that they had been retained by Mrs. Julia Hurstwood to adjust certain matters which related to her sustenance and property rights, and would he kindly call and see them about the matter at once.†   (source)
  • Without any aid from the science of cookery, he was immediately employed, in common with his fellows, in gorging himself with this digestible sustenance.†   (source)
  • The censure of foreigners does not affect him, and their praise hardly flatters him; his position with regard to the rest of the world is one of disdainful and ignorant reserve: his pride requires no sustenance, it nourishes itself.†   (source)
  • Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the meantime he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.†   (source)
  • In this case there was no material object to feed upon, but the eye of reason saw a probability of mental sustenance in the shape of gossip.†   (source)
  • But availing himself of the doctor's order, the old man would not take any sustenance; at length (after nine days of despair and fasting), the old man died, cursing those who had caused his misery, and saying to Mercedes, 'If you ever see my Edmond again, tell him I die blessing him.'†   (source)
  • —when every one ought to obtain his sustenance with his own hands; it's useless to reckon on others; one must labour oneself.†   (source)
  • But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,—strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination and intellect, great power of self-control, and a disposition to exert control over others,—prejudices come as the natural food of tendencies which can get no sustenance out of that complex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking knowledge which we call truth.†   (source)
  • To say the truth, there was much need of professional assistance, not merely for Hester herself, but still more urgently for the child—who, drawing its sustenance from the maternal bosom, seemed to have drank in with it all the turmoil, the anguish and despair, which pervaded the mother's system.†   (source)
  • As the girl arose from her knees, the bear dropped on its feet again, and collecting its cubs around her, permitted them to draw their natural sustenance.†   (source)
  • Her young husband was as happy as she; for he was doing his whole duty, he worked early and late at his handicraft, his bread was honest bread well and fairly earned, he was prospering, he was furnishing shelter and sustenance to his family, he was adding his mite to the wealth of the nation.†   (source)
  • The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts — in short,' said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, 'they are weaned — and Mrs. Micawber is, at present, my travelling companion.†   (source)
  • They clung to the purple moors behind and around their dwelling — to the hollow vale into which the pebbly bridle-path leading from their gate descended, and which wound between fern-banks first, and then amongst a few of the wildest little pasture-fields that ever bordered a wilderness of heath, or gave sustenance to a flock of grey moorland sheep, with their little mossy-faced lambs:— they clung to this scene, I say, with a perfect enthusiasm of attachment.†   (source)
  • Oak," she said, with luminous distinctness and common sense, "you are better off than I. I have hardly a penny in the world—I am staying with my aunt for my bare sustenance.†   (source)
  • I should like to take some sustenance.†   (source)
  • He had an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing rather to absent himself; and eating once in twenty-four hours seemed sufficient sustenance for him.†   (source)
  • For a long time, now, the circus-running sun has raced within his fiery ring, and needs no sustenance but what's in himself.†   (source)
  • They had no roots and didn't care which solid objects secured them, sand, shells, husks, or pebbles; they didn't ask their hosts for sustenance, just a point of purchase.†   (source)
  • I suppose I could have put it in evidence, Mr Chivery, if I had thought it worth my while, that the amount of solid sustenance my daughter consumed at that period did not exceed ten ounces per week.'†   (source)
  • I had first, however, provided for my sustenance for that day by a loaf of coarse bread, which I purloined, and a cup with which I could drink more conveniently than from my hand of the pure water which flowed by my retreat.†   (source)
  • God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate; and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get — when our will strains after a path we may not follow — we need neither starve from inanition, nor stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden food it longed to taste — and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against…†   (source)
  • A gelatinous, semifluid substance coated the fibrous tissue of these sponges, and from this tissue there escaped a steady trickle of water that, after carrying sustenance to each cell, was being expelled by a contracting movement.†   (source)
  • Without this signet in his flesh, he could have attributed no more substance to them than to the empty confusion of imaginary scenes with which he had fed his spirit, until even that poor sustenance was exhausted.†   (source)
  • Though our wayfaring has been sore and our sustenance scanty, we have had little other cause for complaint, except the violence done our feelings, by being thus led in captivity into a far land.†   (source)
  • His gentle mother sat down at his side, caressed him, and said tenderly: "My child, will you forever feed on your own heart in grief and pain, and take no thought of sleep or sustenance?†   (source)
  • And so I granted him all his desire, and many in this court marvelled that he desired his sustenance for a twelvemonth.†   (source)
  • But the hermit might not find Sir Launcelot's sustenance, and so he impaired and waxed feeble, both of his body and of his wit: for the default of his sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforehand.†   (source)
  • WITH these words came before the king Beaumains, while the damosel was there, and thus he said, Sir king, God thank you, I have been this twelvemonth in your kitchen, and have had my full sustenance, and now I will ask my two gifts that be behind.†   (source)
  • For Sir Brewnor desired ever worship, and this desireth bread and drink and broth; upon pain of my life he was fostered up in some abbey, and, howsomever it was, they failed meat and drink, and so hither he is come for his sustenance.†   (source)
  • All were armed and mounted, and there were a number of pack animals, bearing what I assumed were supplies for the sustenance of the party.†   (source)
  • There remained the generic conditions imposed by natural, as distinct from human law, as integral parts of the human whole: the necessity of destruction to procure alimentary sustenance: the painful character of the ultimate functions of separate existence, the agonies of birth and death: the monotonous menstruation of simian and (particularly) human females extending from the age of puberty to the menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very painful…†   (source)
  • The family does not seek sustenance in a /rare tenderloin/ and /squash/, but in /underdone under-cut/ and /vegetable marrow/.†   (source)
  • Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.†   (source)
  • For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.†   (source)
  • 5 Blow again trumpeter! and for thy theme, Take now the enclosing theme of all, the solvent and the setting, Love, that is pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang, The heart of man and woman all for love, No other theme but love—knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love.†   (source)
  • To Rich Givers What you give me I cheerfully accept, A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems, A traveler's lodging and breakfast as journey through the States,— why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?†   (source)
  • 2 The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day, The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the scheme, The similitudes of the past and those of the future, The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river, The current rushing so swiftly and swimming with me far away, The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them,…†   (source)
  • These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.†   (source)
  • But the hermit might not find Sir Launcelot's sustenance, and so he impaired and waxed feeble, both of his body and of his wit: for the default of his sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforehand.†   (source)
  • Already has he afforded thee sustenance, and put it in thy power to provide for thyself till he sends thee a deliverance.†   (source)
  • And so I granted him all his desire, and many in this court marvelled that he desired his sustenance for a twelvemonth.†   (source)
  • However, it was necessary to mention this matter, lest the world should think it impossible that I could find sustenance for three years in such a country, and among such inhabitants.†   (source)
  • The multitude of poor, and yet strong people still encreasing, they are to be transplanted into Countries not sufficiently inhabited: where neverthelesse, they are not to exterminate those they find there; but constrain them to inhabit closer together, and not range a great deal of ground, to snatch what they find; but to court each little Plot with art and labour, to give them their sustenance in due season.†   (source)
  • I am a man of little sustenance.†   (source)
  • If you have fortunes, you are hereby rendered incapable of enjoying them; if you have none, you are disabled from acquiring any, nay almost of procuring your sustenance; for no persons of character will receive you into their houses.†   (source)
  • …breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a proportionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:— for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great…†   (source)
  • For Sir Brewnor desired ever worship, and this desireth bread and drink and broth; upon pain of my life he was fostered up in some abbey, and, howsomever it was, they failed meat and drink, and so hither he is come for his sustenance.†   (source)
  • This indeed answered my end; and in a year and half's time I had a flock of about twelve goats, kids and all; and in two years after, they amounted to forty-three, besides what I had taken and killed for my sustenance.†   (source)
  • …a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever.†   (source)
  • …enumerates specially a number of sins which many a man peradventure deems no sins, and confesses them not, and yet nevertheless they are truly sins: — ] This is to say, at every time that a man eateth and drinketh more than sufficeth to the sustenance of his body, in certain he doth sin; eke when he speaketh more than it needeth, he doth sin; eke when he heareth not benignly the complaint of the poor; eke when he is in health of body, and will not fast when other folk fast, without…†   (source)
  • Have I been toiling so many years, denying myself even the conveniences of life, to provide some little sustenance for them, to lose one or both in such a manner?†   (source)
  • I applied myself to the king, and assured his majesty, "that I came from a country which abounded with several millions of both sexes, and of my own stature; where the animals, trees, and houses, were all in proportion, and where, by consequence, I might be as able to defend myself, and to find sustenance, as any of his majesty's subjects could do here; which I took for a full answer to those gentlemen's arguments."†   (source)
  • *Pars Secunda* *Second Part* Not far from thilke* palace honourable, *that Where as this marquis shope* his marriage, *prepared; resolved on There stood a thorp,* of sighte delectable, *hamlet In which the poore folk of that village Hadde their beastes and their harbourage,* *dwelling And of their labour took their sustenance, After the earthe gave them abundance.†   (source)
  • Come, thou jolly substance, with thy shining face, keep back thy inspiration, but hold forth thy tempting rewards; thy shining, chinking heap; thy quickly convertible bank-bill, big with unseen riches; thy often-varying stock; the warm, the comfortable house; and, lastly, a fair portion of that bounteous mother, whose flowing breasts yield redundant sustenance for all her numerous offspring, did not some too greedily and wantonly drive their brethren from the teat.†   (source)
  • But the snows now growing very deep, particularly on the mountains, the ravenous creatures were then obliged to seek for sustenance in the villages, were coming by surprise on the country people, killed several of them, besides a great number of their sheep and horses.†   (source)
  • WITH these words came before the king Beaumains, while the damosel was there, and thus he said, Sir king, God thank you, I have been this twelvemonth in your kitchen, and have had my full sustenance, and now I will ask my two gifts that be behind.†   (source)
  • I could see no house nor people; I was wet, yet had no clothes to shift me; hungry and thirsty, yet had nothing to eat or drink; no weapon to destroy any creature for my sustenance; nor defend myself against devouring beasts; in short, I had nothing but a knife, a tobacco pipe, and a box half filled with tobacco.†   (source)
  • …fate; which was indeed severe enough: for so far was he from doubling his industry on the account of his lessened income, that he did in a manner abandon himself to despair; and as he was by nature indolent, that vice now increased upon him, by which means he lost the little school he had; so that neither his wife nor himself would have had any bread to eat, had not the charity of some good Christian interposed, and provided them with what was just sufficient for their sustenance.†   (source)
  • *refrain And, for there is no thief without a louke,<3> That helpeth him to wasten and to souk* *spend Of that he bribe* can, or borrow may, *steal Anon he sent his bed and his array Unto a compere* of his owen sort, *comrade That loved dice, and riot, and disport; And had a wife, that held *for countenance* *for appearances* A shop, and swived* for her sustenance.†   (source)
  • Now be there three manner of almsdeed: contrition of heart, where a man offereth himself to God; the second is, to have pity of the default of his neighbour; the third is, in giving of good counsel and comfort, ghostly and bodily, where men have need, and namely [specially] sustenance of man's food.†   (source)
  • He wanted for no manner of sustenance; and when he was ill or out of order, I was his physician, not only for his body but his soul; and therefore no wonder was it, that such an innocent creature long since divested of his former natural cruelty, should have an uncommon concern at so cruel a seperation from me, which pierced him to the very soul, and made him desire even to die, rather than live without me… After I had told Friday, in a very careless manner, that he should be at his…†   (source)
  • But now the appearance of this barley, flourishing in a barren soil, and my ignorance in not conceiving how it should come there, made me conclude that miracles were not yet ceased: nay, I even thought that God had appointed it to grow there without any seed, purely for my sustenance in this miserable and desolate island.†   (source)
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