Subsisted

Examples

• This demand they made to a population that subsisted almost entirely by overseas trade! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She always envied, almost with resentment, the strange positive fullness that subsisted in the atmosphere around Ursula and Birkin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Between the two eldest and herself especially, there subsisted a particular regard. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The perfect confidence that subsisted between Perdita and him, rendered every communication common between them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In other places human beings were seldom seen; and I generally subsisted on the wild animals that crossed my path. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Great areas of the American interior were prairie land, whose nomadic tribes subsisted upon vast herds of the now practically extinct bison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The latter did not do so, however, but stopped only a short distance farther on and subsisted his army for the entire winter off East Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In her tone, she made the understanding clear--they were of the same kind, he and she, a sort of diabolic freemasonry subsisted between them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Could all these people, now employed in raising, making, or carrying superfluities, be subsisted by raising necessaries? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber, or a few tasteless berries and fungi. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Such was the Greek empire as long as it subsisted, and that of the Saracens during the reigns of the Abassides. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It showed that we could have subsisted off the country for two months instead of two weeks without going beyond the limits designated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Some books still subsisted, after Dobbin's departure, with his name written in them; a German dictionary, for instance, with William Dobbin, --th Reg. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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