Subsist

Examples

• I had fifteen pistoles; so he borrowed occasionally of me to subsist, while he was looking out for business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The constitution which this act established, was allowed to subsist for about two-and-twenty years, but was abolished by the 10th of queen Anne, ch. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As numerous and civilized societies cannot subsist without government, so government is entirely useless without an exact obedience. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Ducks, like whales, subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called Criblatores, or sifters. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The troops were in a healthy climate, and where they could subsist for an indefinite period even if their line back to Vera Cruz should be cut off. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The one exports what can subsist and accommodate but a very few, and imports the subsistence and accommodation of a great number. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year, without employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This matter of lightning or of electricity is an extreme subtile fluid, penetrating other bodies, and subsisting in them, equally diffused. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The whole stock of mere dwelling-houses, too, subsisting at anyone time in the country, make a part of this first portion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They were a horde of nomadic horsemen living in tents, and subsisting mainly upon mare's milk products and meat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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.
• The double relation between the ideas and impressions subsists in both cases, and produces an easy transition from the one emotion to the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The taille, as it still subsists in France may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This species of tenants still subsists in some parts of Scotland. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There subsists at present a tax of this kind in the empire of Russia. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This species of slavery still subsists in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and other parts of Germany. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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