Sustained

Examples

• This Ph?nician alliance sustained him, and was the essential element in the greatness of his son Solomon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The patent was infringed and assailed, but finally sustained by the highest courts of England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A sort of renewed youth glowed in his eye and colour, and an invigorated hope and settled purpose sustained his bearing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The heaviest loss sustained by the enemy was in front of these two divisions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This unity is like the sun in the heavens, the light by which all things are seen, the being by which they are created and sustained. Plato. The Republic.
• Sir Richard Webster, now Chief-Justice of England, was my counsel, and sustained all of my patents in England for many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such warfare as had gone on between Christianity and Islam had been rather border-bickering than sustained war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He studied much, slept little, sustained a great deal of fatigue with ease, and was equably cheerful. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• If his act was not sustained, he would change it--if he saw the matter would be followed up until he did so. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Nevertheless, I may be allowed, I hope, to congratulate you—which I do with all my soul, I assure you—on your not having sustained a greater loss. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The man never trod ground whose virtues and services would have sustained him in that place that day, against such denunciation. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They were sustained by what seemed an overwhelming force of disciplined troops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Bell's patent was not sustained by the courts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But no case could be sustained against him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was right that all that had sustained me should give way at once and that I should die of terror and my conscience. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The deeper the water, the greater will be the weight sustained by the confining vessel and the greater the pressure exerted by the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And it was chiefly the poorer citizens of Athens who sustained this empire by their most vigorous and incessant personal service. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Neilson's Hot Air Blast, 1828, Patent Sustained. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was not long ere he found him, foaming with indignation at a repulse he had anew sustained from the fair Jewess. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It meant unity, sustained on a scale that would otherwise have been impossible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• There was a real sustained attempt to unite all Christendom under a purified and reorganized church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He certainly was not sustained in his efforts to maintain discipline in high places. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The equable manner in which Mrs. Jellyby sustained both his absence and his restoration to the family circle surprised us all. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We came to her like visitors from heaven itself; her high-wrought courage; her hardly sustained firmness, fled with the appearance of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Here a patent having once been sustained, say, in Boston, may have to be litigated all over again in New York, and again in Philadelphia, and so on for all the Federal circuits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Equally important is the uncompromising monotheism, void of any Jewish exclusiveness, which is sustained by the Koran. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When Muhammad wavered, Abu Bekr sustained him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am glad to tell you, Mr Headstone, that the sister of your old pupil has not sustained any such loss. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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