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Sentences starting with support

Support me. [5]

Sentences ending with support

Can you, if you swear to support the Constitution, and believe that the Constitution establishes a right, clear your oath, without giving it support? [7]
I knew you would only have to show him that it was just and pure, in order to secure his cordial support. [5]
Yet Duke Maurice would have been well worthy of her whole attention, for with what a free, proud step he advanced, while his imperial master used his arm as a support! [10]
They strode along, with their arms projecting straight out from their bodies; they did not hold them out themselves, but fellow-students walked beside them and gave the needed support. [5]
If they meet with men who are doubtful as to the man they will support, such voters should be designated in separate lines, with the name of the man they will probably support. [7]
How pinched they were perhaps no one knew but Clay, to whom they looked for almost their whole support. [5]
They declared there was only one physician in the place and he was arrested every week regularly and held to answer under the vagrant act for having "no visible means of support. [5]
His left arm was in a sling, and he wore a large green patch over his left eye; he limped slightly, and used an oaken staff as a support. [5]
In any real trouble she would not have lacked support. [4]
She was being touched by his warm interest in her two charity-proteges and by his contributions toward their support. [5]

Short sentences using support

No charities to support. [5]
How could she support herself? [5]
You will not lack support. [9]

Sentences containing support two or more times

Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. [7]
The pasturage covering the surface of the Kimberley crater was sufficient for the support of a cow, and the pasturage underneath was sufficient for the support of a kingdom; but the cow did not know it, and lost her chance. [5]
It is a strange attitude; for at bottom we know that the throne which the people support stands, and that when that support is removed nothing in this world can save it. [5]
I get four rupees monthly from charity fund of this place, from which I send two rupees for their support, and keep two for my own support. [5]
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and laws let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor. [7]
Their farms do not support them: they support their farms. [5]
And although it is distasteful to me, I have sworn to support the Constitution; and having so sworn, I cannot conceive that I do support it if I withhold from that right any necessary legislation to make it practical. [7]
A large table, a couch covered with a panther's skin, a footstool in front of it, and on it a crescent-shaped support for the head, made of ivory, [A support of crescent form on which the Egyptians rested their heads. [10]

More example sentences with the word support in them

It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
The honeysuckle in your garden needs a support, that it may grow and put forth flowers; let these poor songs be the espalier around which your memory of the absent one can twine its tendrils and cling lovingly. [10]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
Somewhat thus a young rose-tree might feel, which for the first time receives the support of the prop to which it is tied by the careful gardener. [10]
I propose that you constantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers and soldiers in the field is of the very first importance, and we should therefore bend all our energies to that point. [7]
Also do what you can to communicate with him and support him there. [7]
A few more years in the service, and our savings and the pension together will be enough to support us there and lay aside a little marriage dowry for our daughter. [10]
The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
I can now write in perfect security to the Emperor that all will be ready for him in Lochias, and as a farewell speech, I can only say, it is folly to be discouraged if only Pontius is at hand to support and assist me. [10]
For me he would have put himself out not an inch had he not understood that my support came from those quarters. [9]
It is hardly worth while to consider the projects for relieving the Mississippi River floods by creating new outlets, since these sensational propositions have commended themselves only to unthinking minds, and have no support among engineers. [5]
Lest the envious world should not believe his own story, Smith had Baker, his steward, and several of his crew examined before a magistrate at Plymouth, December 8, 1615, who support his story by their testimony up to a certain point. [4]
I do not wonder at all that the public support a whole community of pretenders who show the portraits of the patients they have "cured. [6]
His method was withering sarcasm, and he was clearly unable to control his animus.... No champion appeared to support Krebs, who sat pale and tense while this denunciation of him was going on. [9]
The branch falls with the decay of its support, and must cling to the new growths around it, if it would not lie helpless in the dust. [6]
He and Hooker will so support you on the west and northwest as to enable you to look east and northeast. [7]
The national system will create a reliable and permanent influence in support of the national credit and protect the people against losses in the use of paper money. [7]
She and all who have a voice in the management of court affairs look first at the roof and then seek anything to raise and support it, though it should be corpses, ruined lives, and broken hearts. [10]
The rock on which she stood gave her feet sufficient support, as it had done many times before. [10]
Adams's administration, at which point he considers the executive influence as withdrawn from opposition, and added to the support of the power. [7]
With the prosperity which he made attend his work he changed the character of the enterprise, and with Fulkerson's enthusiastic support he gave the public an art journal of as high grade as 'Les Lettres et les Arts', and very much that sort of thing. [8]
She could live wherever she pleased, and her dowry, with what she had saved, would be ample to support her and Maria, in the city or the country, in a style suited to their rank. [10]
It swings out when the housewife wants to hang on the tea-kettle, and it is strong enough to support a row of pots, or a mammoth caldron kettle on occasion. [4]
The loss of what we possess nearest and dearest to us in this world, produces an effect upon the character we search out what we have yet left that can support, and, when found, we cling to it with a hold of new-strung tenacity. [14]
And then he went on in a hurried whisper: "I know what your ambition is, and my support may be of use to you. [10]
That $24 a week would have been enough for us--if we had not had to support the jug. [5]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. [7]
The crowd made way for her, and she came smiling and bowing through the narrow human lane, with Betsy Hale, as escort and support, smiling and bowing in her wake, the audience breaking into welcoming cheers as the old favorites filed along. [5]
This time it was not Quijada, but the Duke of Alba, who offered him the support of his mailed arm, and, leaning on it, he ascended the low stage. [10]
At this Katharina was forced to support herself against her mother's arm-chair to save herself from sinking on her knees; with tingling cheeks she questioned the leech till he lost all patience and turned away much annoyed at such excessive feminine curiosity. [10]
She did n't want to support no husband. [4]
What we do want is the conclusive evidence that respectable citizens of Louisiana are willing to be members of Congress and to swear support to the Constitution, and that other respectable citizens there are willing to vote for them and send them. [7]
When the governor wakes in the morning he thinks first of his salary; he has not the least anxiety about his daily bread or the support of his family. [4]
The churches know very well, he maintains, that the fear of everlasting punishment more than any or all other motives is the source of their power and the support of their organizations. [6]
Her hands groped vainly for some support, and with a loud cry she sank on her knees beside Hur's token. [10]
Talks with Brother V. strengthen, refresh, and support me in the path of virtue. [2]
Reason cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason--must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense. [7]
In such an undertaking he needs every moral support and influence that can possibly be brought to his aid and thrown around him. [7]
Yet she perfectly understood her situation, and, at times, deprived of her lifelong support, she felt powerless in it, and she suffered as only the pure and the noble can suffer. [4]
There we have two specimens of these Neapolitans--two of the silliest possible frauds, which half the population religiously and faithfully believed, and the other half either believed also or else said nothing about, and thus lent themselves to the support of the imposture. [5]
There were quarrels, too, the men striving to push one another from the easier paths; and deeds sublime when some straggler clutched at the bole of a tree for support, and was helped onward through excruciating ways. [9]
I owe this to you, for your loyal support in the pest. [9]
She turned them to the sea-instinctively towards that point on the shore where she thought it likely Michel might be; as though by looking she might find comfort and support in this hard hour. [11]
They need faith to support them more than men do, for they have a great deal less to call them out of themselves, and it comes easier to them, for their habitual state of dependence teaches them to trust in others. [6]
The resolutions promise to support me in every constitutional and lawful measure to suppress the rebellion; and I have not knowingly employed, nor shall knowingly employ, any other. [7]
I might refuse to support her. [9]
Little Scherau tried to support her, but he was too weak; she sank down on the sand, and looked out into the distance. [10]
There was nothing to support her in the crisis but her own faith. [11]
He was wont to say to the little Avocat whenever Francois's name was mentioned: "The spirit of a man will support him, but a wounded spirit who can bear? [11]
A garden ought to produce one everything,--just as a business ought to support a man, and a house ought to keep itself. [4]
It is willing to pay liberally for their support, and to hire ministers and distributors of its benefactions. [4]
Nobody knows how to lift and support me so well. [10]
If we had to keep the sun kindled up and going by private corporate action, or act of Congress, and to be taxed for the support of customs officers of solar heat, we should prize it more than we do. [4]
The ground seemed to heave beneath her feet; sick and giddy she put out her hand to find some support, that she might not sink on her knees; in so doing, she caught the tall tripod which held the dish of coals. [10]
I was bound to get into a hole, and I'm in it now, with one lung, and a wife in prospect to support. [11]
For one thing, to find a new basis for the support of such a parish. [9]
You are soon to enter into relations with the public, to expend your skill and knowledge for its benefit, and find your support in the rewards of your labor. [3]
His proposition was to endow the colleges at the expense of the fund for the support of the common schools. [6]
And it needs to be pretty broad to support a traffic of such enormous proportions. [4]
Had she attempted to advance to meet him, her limbs would have failed to support her. [10]
You now belong to a party that I am opposed to, but that doesn't stop me offering you support. [11]
He hath the throne's protection, he hath the crown's support, he shall be known and called by the honourable title of the King's Ward. [5]
During the next three months I always flew with my gun to the room indicated, and the coachman always sallied forth with his battery to support me. [5]
At first I thought there were about ten pillars to support the roof, but my impression before I left was that there were about ten thousand. [11]
In support of this, Virgil and two other Roman poets are quoted. [5]
If you question this, listen awhile, consider awhile what I shall advance in support of that proposition. [7]
Therewith she gave this young gentleman her hand to support her to her seat, and asked him whether, in his country, they did not do service and devoir to the divine Dame Musica? [10]
She felt that this was the purer, the nobler, the better cause; and she rejoiced in the love of which he had spoken as the support and the stay of their future life together--as sheltering them like a tower of strength and a mighty refuge. [10]
Do you think this man will support you, stick to you? [9]
Serapion explained that they were his pupils, whose office it was to support his incantations by efficient formulas. [10]
No, they don't; they save enough in three minutes to support the family seven years. [5]
Now, that all these conflicting elements should be brought, while at daggers' points with one another, to support him, is a feat that is worthy for you to note and consider. [7]
The poor drew their belts tighter, and the morsel of bread, distributed by the city to each individual, was no longer enough to quiet hunger and support life. [10]
The support of the Wilmot Proviso is the first fact mentioned to prove that the Missouri restriction was repudiated in principle, and the second is the refusal to extend the Missouri line over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
It followed from the way in which he lived that he must have some means of support upon which he could depend. [6]
But if, when the war had begun, and had become the cause of the country, the giving of our money and our blood, in common with yours, was support of the war, then it is not true that we have always opposed the war. [7]
It said that the vast expense of maintaining the army had made it necessary to retrench, and so the Government had decided that to support the army it would be necessary to withdraw the appropriation from the public schools. [5]
As soon as the Uhlans descended the hill, the hussars were ordered up the hill to support the battery. [2]
In those days, the Trust will have an income approaching five million dollars a day, and no expenses to be taken out of it; no taxes to pay, and no charities to support. [5]
In those days the Trust will have an income approaching $5,000,000 a day, and no expenses to be taken out of it; no taxes to pay, and no charities to support. [5]
The funds of the temple are insufficient to support two more serving maidens besides them and us, and so Arsinoe and Doris are only to pour out the libations for the future, and we are to sing the laments, and do the wailing. [10]
The officer of the suite ventured to remark to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain without support. [2]
For nine years the prisoner at the bar did not adequately support his family. [5]
It accords with the principle of the division of physiological labour, prevailing throughout the animal kingdom, that as the hands became perfected for prehension, the feet should have become perfected for support and locomotion. [1]
She leaned against the pillar for support now, for her knees trembled under her. [10]
He foamed at the mouth, with low moans, and, before Alexander could prevent him, racked with pain and seeking for some support, he had set his teeth in the arm of the seat off which he was slipping. [10]
His house in the monastery suited his longing for rest; he obtained a position in the morocco factory in the valley below, which afforded him a support, and his daughters provided for his physical comfort. [10]
Can he withhold the legislation which his neighbor needs for the enjoyment of a right which is fixed in his favor in the Constitution of the United States which he has sworn to support? [7]
There is not the least danger of Napoleon threatening them if they take an American sovereign; in fact, we have no doubt he would be pleased to support such a candidature. [5]
James Redpath recognised the justice of this assumption, and furnished the following instance in support of it. [5]
The bands of the Ephebi will support him to a man. [10]
The prefect caught the despot, who, seized with giddiness, stretched out his hands as if seeking a support. [10]
Swear to support the Constitution of the United States. [7]
Do you support the Constitution if, knowing or believing there is a right established under it which needs specific legislation, you withhold that legislation? [7]
It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free government and free institutions. [7]
It has reached the bottom, smashed into a thousand pieces, and I am thankful that you preferred to follow me rather than that false support. [10]
About Tushin and the battalion that had been in support of his battery all was forgotten. [2]
Paragraph 14 of the ausgleich fixes the proportion each country must pay to the support of the army. [5]
The agitation on the Ariadne in support of the grievances of the sailors was so moderate that, from the first, Dyck threw in his lot with it. [11]

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