sustainment

It drew sustainment from the dead hand in his grasp, and cowered down to the earth claiming all we touch.

The mule had its backers, too; it was the gentler animal, they contended in sustainment of their preference.

A right knowledge and apprehension of the past teaches humbleness and self-sustainment to the present.

Perhaps she now felt that food necessary to the sustainment of her fiendish designs.

Emerson said that The Nation had “breadth, variety, self-sustainment, and an admirable style of thought and expression.”