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Sentences starting with supported

Supported by the young Englishman, Hilary climbed the stone steps and reached the porch, declaring all the while that he needed no assistance, and could walk alone. [9]
Supported by this force, many things might be attempted, resistance might be considerably prolonged, and the time thus gained used in gathering fresh aid and allies. [10]

Sentences ending with supported

That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
And let us remember that our duties to our brethren do not cease when they become unable to share our toils, or leave behind them in want and woe those whom their labor had supported. [3]
There are thousands of churches in Italy, each with untold millions of treasures stored away in its closets, and each with its battalion of priests to be supported. [5]
But if I have schemes which'll do good, I ought to be supported. [11]
He believed he desired what was right, yet at this moment a feeling stole over him that a stain rested on the cause he supported. [10]

Short sentences using supported

The freedman supported him. [10]

More example sentences with the word supported in them

It's true that you have always supported me in luxury,--that might have been enough for another woman. [9]
If we had yielded to his views, and if our head man Obedianus had not supported me, we should not have had a single picture in the church, and it would have looked like a barn rather than a house of prayer. [10]
How willingly now would she have allowed herself to be supported and guided by Polykarp! [10]
Howells mournfully, and without words, hitched himself to Bishop and me and supported us out of the room. [5]
Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
And Boemund Altrosen, who stood opposite to her, leaning against one of the pillars which supported the arched ceiling of the room, how came he here? [10]
A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
In the cares which Mrs. March shared with her husband that night she was supported partly by principle, but mainly by the potent excitement which bewildered Conrad's family and took all reality from what had happened. [8]
The same spirit which had supported her on the previous night, upheld and sustained her now. [12]
She obeyed, and wherever it was necessary to climb over the rocks, he supported and lifted her, but he only spoke when she addressed him. [10]
Proclus and Althea were among the conspirators who supported Arsinoe, and the Queen thought it would be an easy matter to win over to her cause and herself the handsome sculptor, whom she remembered at the last Dionysia. [10]
Those in the wealthy quarter are spacious; painted snow-white usually, and generally have wide verandas, or double-verandas, supported by ornamental columns. [5]
His own theory was that the Milky Way was an emigration of lightning bugs; and he supported and reinforced this theorem by the well-known fact that the locusts do like that in Egypt. [5]
His left hand was bloody; he wiped it on his coat and supported himself with it. [2]
Instantly the secretary was at her side, and supported her, fainting, to a seat. [4]
Porphyrius was sitting up, supported in the physician's arms; his eyes were open, and as they entered he greeted them with a faint smile. [10]
He got him up and supported him--almost carried him indeed--out of the building and into a carriage. [5]
After him came Uncle Jim, supported between two others. [11]
The groans of two young singers who were seriously ill were drowned by the din and heeded by no one except the old drummer's pitying wife, who sometimes wiped the perspiration from the sufferers' brows or supported their heads. [10]
He had ceded two large bishoprics to his Protestant ally, and this act of liberality, which, it is true, had been approved and supported by Granvelle, could no longer be undone. [10]
The British army, twenty-five thousand strong, admirably equipped, and supported by a powerful naval force, threatened to envelop our poor force, and finish the war in a stroke. [4]
A British officer told me that in India he paid his servant 10 rupees a month, and he had 11 cousins, uncles, parents, etc., dependent upon him, and he supported them on his wages. [5]
Who could have told me that I should one day have the satisfaction to look again upon this bit of wood that supported me above the grave that swallowed up my unfortunate companions! [5]
Several steps led to the anteroom, supported by Ionic columns, which adjoined the naos. [10]
She was allowed to sit up part of the day in a cushioned arm-chair, supported by pillows. [10]
He was about to say something to her, but she suddenly swayed and would have fallen, but that he caught her and supported her. [11]
Mr. Lincoln proceeded to rally the Buffalo convention for forbearing to say anything--after all the previous declarations of those members who were formerly Whigs--on the subject of the Mexican War, because the Van Burens had been known to have supported it. [7]
She now returned to Lugano, and there sought to compensate her poor honest friend by the sale of her ornaments, but the time soon came when the generous artist was forced to submit to be supported by the charity of a servant. [10]
How long a time his absence would extend could not be estimated, and the many poor people whom he had fed and supported must not suffer through his departure. [10]
Again, of these three or four Fillmore newspapers, two, at least, are supported in part by the Buchanan men, as I understand. [7]
Not only all those who supported the Union ticket, so called, but a great majority of the opposing party also may be fairly claimed to entertain and to be actuated by the same purpose. [7]
People argued from this that he preferred to be supported by his uncle until his uncle's shoes should become vacant. [5]
Many, however, joined them in order to live an idle life, supported by the gifts of others. [10]
Some ladies in the town heard of this, visited him, and by their encouraging words supported him in his good resolutions and strengthened him to continue in his new life. [5]
Suddenly one of the ropes broke, and the board which supported her feet turned over out of her reach. [10]
He had not the least doubt that Mr. Hodder did not desire to remain in the parish when it was so apparent that the doctrines which he now preached were not acceptable to most of those who supported the church. [9]
As he raised the injured man, who still uttered low moans, and supported his head on his broad breast, the sweet perfume of fine ointment was wafted to him from his hair, and a fearful suspicion dawned upon his mind. [10]
And last of the goodly procession came Miss Monflathers, bearing herself a parasol of lilac silk, and supported by two smiling teachers, each mortally envious of the other, and devoted unto Miss Monflathers. [12]
On passing through the gate one entered a wide, paved court-yard, at the sides of which walks extended, closed in at the back, and with roofs supported on slender painted wooden columns. [10]
Then I say that to destroy a thing which is distinctly affirmed and supported by the supreme law of the land, even by a State constitution or law, is a violation of that supreme law, and there is no escape from it. [7]
Her work was that of clerk and copyist in a freight office, and she earned nine dollars a week, on which she supported herself and her mother. [4]
His remittances had supported the Hawkins family, entirely, from the time of his father's death until latterly when Laura by her efforts in Washington had been able to assist in this work. [5]
A wooden tripod supported the board on which his tools lay. [10]
The Press unanimously supported him, for it was felt the strike had its origin in foreign influence, and as French Canada had no love for the United States there was journalistic opposition to the strike. [11]
Bai's wife had supported her wish, and the prince was obliged to yield. [10]
The base is supported by the kneeling figures of Adam Kraft and two fellow-workmen, who labored on it for four years. [4]
We found the state palace of the Governor of Nevada Territory to consist of a white frame one-story house with two small rooms in it and a stanchion supported shed in front--for grandeur--it compelled the respect of the citizen and inspired the Indians with awe. [5]
You remember my speaking of a Miss K., a young authoress, who supported her mother by writing? [14]
He was supported solely by what his art brought and his wealthy uncle allowed him. [10]
There are two small rooms, with low ceilings supported by massive arches; the arches and ceilings are whitewashed, otherwise the rooms would pass for cells in the dungeons of a bastile. [5]
He supported almost singlehanded a poorhouse the order had founded in Petersburg. [2]
On the farther side was a large, veranda-like hall open at the front, with a roof supported by pillars. [10]
A projecting wall sheltered the old men from the hurricane, yet they found it difficult to stand erect, even while supported by their staves and clinging to the stones of the masonry. [10]
In a wooden shed, whose roof was supported by gaily painted pillars, through which the wind whistled, the servants, from the porters to the litter-bearers, had gathered in groups under the flickering light of the lanterns. [10]
Not one statement shall be made which cannot be supported by unimpeachable reference: not one word shall be uttered which I am not as willing to print as to speak. [3]
For instance, the Scot told about a pet flying-fish he once owned, that lived in a little fountain in his conservatory, and supported itself by catching birds and frogs and rats in the neighboring fields. [5]
At home the same measures have been fully discussed, supported, criticized, and denounced, and the annual elections following are highly encouraging to those whose official duty it is to bear the country through this great trial. [7]
The Maplewood Avenue residents rose en masse, supported by the City Improvement League. [9]
On hearing the reply which was readily given, her knees trembled beneath her, and the steward, who saw her totter, supported her and led her into the laboratory, where essences and strong waters soon restored her to consciousness. [10]
But the pillar remained miraculously suspended in the air, and, unsupported itself, supported then and still supports the roof. [5]
There is no reason to doubt the truth of this assertion, which is supported by some observations made in China by Mr. Swinhoe. [1]
So it was read aloud, and Hans Teufel's motion to let it drop without any action met with no approval, warmly as I supported it. [10]
Through the porch Psamtik passed on into a lofty entrance-chamber, and from thence into the great hall itself, the ceiling of which was strewn with thousands of golden stars, and supported by four rows of lofty pillars. [10]
But as she prepared to cross the forecourt, suddenly, without warning, the priests' chant swelled to a terrible, almost thundering loudness, the clear, shrill voice of the Temple scholars rising in passionate lament, supported by the deep and threatening roll of the basses. [10]
Sigismund finding himself poorly supported, treated again with the Emperor and agreed to retire to Silicia on a pension. [4]
There is a picture extant of a rich old man who rides on a seat supported on the backs of two donkeys. [10]
The crowd suddenly parted like two waves, and retreated; and Mustapha Kali, almost naked, and supported by a stolid Soudanese, stood before the three. [11]
Heinz instantly rushed out of the house to meet him, but he had found him beside his steed, which had sunk on its knees, and then, trembling and panting, dragged itself, supported by its rider's hand, into the entry. [10]
As for the others, those who had supported him, they were cast in a less heroic mould. [9]
The lofty reception-hall opening on to the gardens, with its ceiling sown with thousands of golden stars and supported by gaily-painted columns, presented a magic appearance. [10]
He now received only a very small portion of the profits of the lumber trade which had supported his ancestors, his father, and himself very handsomely, for he had been compelled to mortgage his share in the business. [10]
The houses, many of which were five stories high, were generally covered with pictures or hieroglyphics; galleries with balustrades of carved and gaily-painted wood-work, supported by columns also brightly painted, ran round the walls surrounding the courts. [10]
Not a few of them actually believed, in 1863, that, if the national convention of the Union party were held then, Lincoln would not be supported by the delegation of a single State. [7]
The ragged crew of the Ranger was paid in part out of his own pocket, and for a whole month he supported the Drake's officers and men, no provision having been made for prisoners. [9]
During the formation of the new government and constitution they were supported by nearly every loyal person, and opposed by every secessionist. [7]
Under the windows of the king's rooms, at least forty feet from the ground, was a narrow parapet resting on the ends of the beams which supported the rafters on which lay the floor of the upper story in which the king slept. [10]
The little lizards of the genus Draco, which glide through the air on their rib- supported parachutes, and which in the beauty of their colours baffle description, are furnished with skinny appendages to the throat "like the wattles of gallinaceous birds. [1]
There were hundreds of the Corinthian columns which supported the roof that covered the footway, and near to one of these the Emperor and Pollux succeeded at last in effecting a halt and taking breath. [10]
Where this faith, obtained in this way, exists, it has always been supported by the conviction that the Man lives who brought life and immortality to light. [9]
The six men now laid hold of the slightly-constructed float, on which they placed their bows and quivers; they pushed it before them, and it supported them above the shallow water, while their feet only just touched the oozy bottom. [10]
Had not the Notary supported the Seigneur in his friendly offices to Paulette Dubois; and had not Madame troubled her husband's life because of it? [11]
Still there were not wanting some among the more respectable members of the medical profession who supported its claims. [6]
Because I do not understand that the Constitution, which guarantees that right, can be supported without it. [7]
She was standing near one of those tall clocks, when the cord which supported one of its heavy leaden weights broke, and the weight came crashing down to the bottom of the case. [6]
I couple his name with this toast, and add the hope that his influence will be supported in exercising his masterly handicraft in that great gift, and that he will long live to continue his fine work. [5]
My deserted wife must stay with him, while I--I know not yet in what master's service--provide that the three are not supported only by the charity of strangers---" "Oh, Seitz, Seitz! [10]
General McClellan has moved his whole force on the line of the James River, and is supported there by our gunboats; but he must be largely strengthened before advancing, and hence the call on you, which I am glad you answered so promptly. [7]
Moreover, at this moment Pierre was supported in his design and prevented from renouncing it by what he had already done in that direction. [2]
Of the Greek mercenaries very few survived, so furious had been Phanes' revenge, and so well had he been supported by his Ionians. [10]
They generally supported measures, when it was possible; but when they could not they "deprecated" violent expressions of opinion in other journalistic quarters. [5]
Here an old man, yonder a younger one, sank prostrate under its scorching blaze or, supported by his friends, staggered on raving with his hand pressed to his brow like a drunken man. [10]
This hall, whose low arched ceiling was supported by three pairs of heavy columns, was furnished like a reception-room. [10]
Mr. Rogers had long enough vision ahead to say, "Your books have supported you before, and after the panic is over they will support you again," and that was a correct proposition. [5]
How deeply the lad's sensitive nature was impressed by the airy rooms, the open verandas supported by many pillars, the brilliant hues of the painting, the artistic household utensils, the soft cushions, and the sweet perfume everywhere! [10]
Don Carlos, the king's eldest brother, immediately set up the standard of rebellion, supported by the absolutist aristocracy, the monks, and a great part of the clergy. [4]
A post, driven into the bank by the stream, supported a tin wash-basin, and here we performed our ablutions. [4]
But Mrs. Kame insisted that Honora should cut in, and the others supported her. [9]
All day long in the privacy of her work-room, Sally Sellers earned bread for the Sellers family; and all the evening Lady Gwendolen Sellers supported the Rossmore dignity. [5]
Torches were flaring in the inn-yard where, under a palm-thatched roof supported on poles and covering a square space in the middle, benches stood for the guests to rest. [10]
Should you succeed in reestablishing St. John's on what you call a free basis --and in my opinion you will not--even then the money, you would live on, and which supported the church, would be directly or indirectly derived from corporations. [9]

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