All 4 Uses
sustain
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- Well, my father worked some five hundred negroes; he was an inflexible, driving, punctilious business man; everything was to move by system,—to be sustained with unfailing accuracy and precision.†
Chpt 2.19
- We can't have perfection; and if I keep him, I must sustain his administration as a whole, even if there are, now and then, things that are exceptionable.†
Chpt 2.19 *
- Topsy was cited, and had up before all the domestic judicatories, time and again; but always sustained her examinations with most edifying innocence and gravity of appearance.†
Chpt 2.20
- He sustained a first rate character, both for intelligence and principle.†
Chpt 2.42
Definitions:
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(1)
(sustain as in: sustained by her faith) provide support or necessities
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(2)
(sustain as in: sustained through the ages) to continue through time
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(3)
(sustain as in: sustained wounds) to suffer (as of injury, damage, or loss)
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, sustained can be voiced by a judge in a court of law to indicate that an objection is upheld.