Supports

Examples

• The thought, taken up by electrical engineers, brought out an electric toaster, rectangular in shape, with handsome frame, nickel supports and wire heating element. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Soon the foot of the hill was reached; the skirmishers pushed directly up, followed closely by their supports. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I support the man who supports their claims; not the virtuous upholder of the wrong. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Also, in such a case, supports at the side kept the car from overturning. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It would support the trade of the farmer, in the same manner as the trade of the wholesale dealer supports that of the manufacturer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The pressure of the air in the closed end now supports the pressure of one atmosphere, and in addition, a column of mercury equal to another atmosphere. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But having no supports near he could not have remained. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This toy consisted of a globe pivoted on two supports, one of which was a communicating pipe leading into a heated cauldron of water beneath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Supports are also placed between the vessel and each side of the dock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the pillar remained miraculously suspended in the air, and, unsupported itself, supported then and still supports the roof. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• One of them, as much as two miles out from his main line, was on a commanding elevation and defended by an intrenched battery with infantry supports. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I believe I also designed a bell and supports. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The air supports a column of mercury 30 inches high. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And something else supports me, Esther. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I married him to do this, and this supports me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Typed by Duane