Maintains

Examples

• In the one way, besides, this expense maintains productive, in the other unproductive hands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But the whole produce of the land undoubtedly belongs to him, who can dispose of the labour and service of all those whom it maintains. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Land, however improved, will yield no revenue without a circulating capital, which maintains the labourers who cultivate and collect its produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The labour of menial servants does not continue the existence of the fund which maintains and employs them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Besides this, the National Phonograph Company maintains a special staff for carrying on the business with foreign countries. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Still he maintains the true attitude of moral action. Plato. The Republic.
• It keeps her lively--it maintains the wholesome ferment of her spirits. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is not to be understood, however, that the great Lick telescope still maintains its supremacy. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She maintains an obstinate silence, when I ask her if she can explain the disappearance of the Diamond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is the instrument which executes and maintains all his other regulations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And farther, _What maintains one vice would bring up two children_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But the monarch of all European ruins, the Coliseum, maintains that reserve and that royal seclusion which is proper to majesty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• By the mass, I think old Lucas Beaumanoir guesses right, when he maintains she hath cast a spell over you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The descending plunger maintains a constant pressure upon the water, and the water is only pumped into the cylinder when it is required to be filled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Some people maintains that an Englishman's house is his castle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In this manner the power imparted to the coil, as the pendulum vibrates to and fro, produces a continuous repetition of the attraction on each side alternately, and maintains a constant action. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Indirectly, perhaps, he maintains as great, or even a greater number of people, than he could have done by the ancient method of expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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