Supporting

Examples

• He at length proposed to me travelling all over Europe together, supporting ourselves everywhere by working at our business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Up to this time my troops had been kept in supporting distances of each other, as far as the nature of the country would admit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of the Expense of supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I am very rich, and they want my inheritance--or very poor, and they are tired of supporting me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The two towers at the axis supporting the wheel were 140 feet high, and the motive power was secured from a 1,000 horse-power steam engine under the wheel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Her uncle, ignorant as the table supporting his coffee-cup of all his niece had undergone and was undergoing, scarcely believed his ears. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is supposed that greater rigidity is obtained by this means than by the suspension, and, like the suspension, great widths may be spanned without an under supporting frame work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He sat down by me on the sofa, supporting me with his arm. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You must compose yourself,' said the doctor supporting her. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The method of supporting the wires on tall posts was then adopted by Mr. Cooke, the wires being insulated from the posts at the points of suspension, by passing them through quills. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He had thrust his chest out, supporting his shoulders against the mantel and resting his weight on one large patent-leather foot. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• While living in Galena I was nominally only a clerk supporting myself and family on a stipulated salary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She placed her orderly little basket at her side, and sank upon the ground, supporting herself against the tree. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The amount of supporting surface had been reduced by about eighty square feet, and a change had been made in the lever that turned the rudder and controlled the equilibrating device. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr. Bucket, supporting me with his arm, lowered me gently into my chair. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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