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Sentences ending with sustain

But this uncertainty was quite beyond her power to sustain. [4]
I dare not fathom the Invisible and Untold to inquire what relations to my Departed ones I yet sustain. [6]

More example sentences with the word sustain in them

The loyal people would not sustain or allow it. [7]
Our holy church will sustain no loss. [10]
If the truth will permit, I propose that you sustain me in the following manner: copy the inclosed scrap in your own handwriting and get everybody (not three or four, but three or four hundred) to sign it, and then send it to me. [7]
Ambition and love will also sustain her like two mighty wings on the proud height to which they have borne her, so long as they dwell harmoniously in her fiery soul. [10]
The pliant intellect which the gods bestowed on me would ill sustain the test in this hour of anguish. [10]
At lunch she was unable to talk; to sustain, at least, a conversation. [9]
Austen Vane called twice, and then made an arrangement with young Dr. Tredway (one of the numerous Ripton Tredways whose money had founded the hospital) that he was to see Mr. Meader as soon as he was able to sustain a conversation. [9]
Instead of continuing to listen to the Greek sentences which Herr Wilibald Pirckheimer was reading aloud to the others, he could not help thinking of the pious, gentle little woman who, with her cheerful kindness, so well understood how to comfort and to sustain courage. [10]
The ash-factory is to close next week, the saw-mill is only paying its way, and the flour-mill and the farms, which have to sustain the call of his many interests, can't stand the drain. [11]
Probably every man thought that, in the same situation, he would have done the same yet not only justice--nay, compassion--dictated showing the blind artist that they believed in and would sustain him. [10]
No response to these letters came, and others were written, and yet these old customers, with plantations under water, were refused even what was necessary to sustain life. [5]
You all know, the world knows, the forces and the resources the public agents have brought into employment to sustain a government against which there has been brought not one complaint of real injury committed against society at home or abroad. [7]
Then there is the well-known example of the honest clerk on a small salary who was ruined by the gift of a repeating watch--an expensive timepiece that required at least ten thousand a year to sustain it: he is now in Canada. [4]
Judge Douglas had the privilege of replying to me at Galesburgh, and again he gave me no direct answer as to whether he would or would not sustain such a decision if made. [7]
But to keep the house without a vast fortune to sustain it was an impossibility, and, as it was the most conspicuous of Mavick's visible possessions, perhaps the surrender of it, which she could not prevent, would save certain odds and ends here and there. [4]
All believe that the decisive moment is near at hand, and to that end the people of the United States are desirous to aid promptly in furnishing all reinforcements that you may deem needful to sustain our government. [7]
She knew alone that it was nigh irresistible, and she grasped the back of the chair as though material support might sustain her. [9]
My conclusion is, that I can have nothing to do with the matter, either to sustain the plan as the convention and Governor Johnson have initiated it, or to revoke or modify it as you demand. [7]
It has demonstrated that a people's government can sustain a national election in the midst of a great civil war. [7]
The arguments to sustain that policy carefully exclude it. [7]
Could Washington himself speak, would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us, who sustain his policy, or upon you, who repudiate it? [7]
Have done and shall do all I could and can to sustain you. [7]
The judicial machinery seemed as if it had been designed, not to sustain the government, but to embarrass and betray it. [7]
They are the props that hold up the house and sustain the Union. [7]
Nancy had the power to give me this exquisite sense of detachment that must sustain her. [9]
To sustain the position of "the only true Church," which Rome claims was thus conferred upon her, she has fought and labored and struggled for many a century, and will continue to keep herself busy in the same work to the end of time. [5]
There was none other to rival him, few to comprehend him, fewer still to sustain him. [6]
I approve, nevertheless, of whatever may tend to strengthen and sustain General Grant and the noble armies now under his direction. [7]
After the visit of the musician and the philosopher, Jean Jacques, to sustain his reputation and to increase it, had decided to visit that Normandy from which his people had come at the time of Frontenac. [11]
She had found nothing which could aid her to sustain it. [10]
I shall make no attempt on this occasion to sustain what I have done or said by any comment. [7]
Never did man more gallantly sustain his honour with heaviest odds against him than did the Seigneur of Rozel that day. [11]
You alone sustain me--it is for the pleasure of seeing you that I suffer. [9]
Apprehension of something like this, and no unwillingness to sustain you, has always been my reason for withholding McDowell's force from you. [7]
I do not know that I feel any worse than I did last Sunday, notwithstanding the reduction of diet; and I trust that we may all have strength given us to sustain the sufferings and hardships of the coming week. [5]
Somewhat to the jeopardy of the academic standard that my father expected me to sustain, our rooms became a rendezvous for many clubable souls whose maudlin, midnight attempts at harmony often set the cocks crowing. [9]
In spite of its ardent and luscious look, it was the mouth of one who knew her own mind and could sustain her own course. [11]
My own opinion is, that a careful investigation of all the arguments to sustain the position that that Compromise was virtually repealed by the Compromise of 1850 would show that they are the merest fallacies. [7]
You may succeed in electing one more governor and one more senate, or two, before the people are able to destroy the machinery you have built up and repeal the laws you have made to sustain it. [9]
He has occupied his hour and a half, and he has not ventured to try to sustain his assertion. [7]
Indeed, many knew him, he was a money-lender and when the rest of his nation had set forth on their pilgrimage, he had concealed himself, hoping to pursue his dishonest calling and sustain no loss. [10]
May Straton's philosophy help you better to sustain your courage in the darkness which surrounds you than it has aided me to bear other trials! [10]
Now, what I have done in this matter I have done at the request of you and some other friends in Tazewell; and I therefore ask you to either admit it is wrong or come forward and sustain me. [7]
M. Taine, who has a theory to sustain, does it by a graphic catalogue of details and traits that cannot be denied; only there is a great deal in English society that he does not include, perhaps does not apprehend. [4]
Lise, she remembered, had sometimes mentioned this place, though preferring Gruber's: and she was struck by the contrast between this spectacle and the grimness of the strike these people had come to encourage and sustain, the conflict in the streets, the suffering in the tenements. [9]
But after she had rejected these the nondescript vertebrate was still voluminous enough to sustain her buoyant hopes. [8]
Maybe if he had had a sandwich here to sustain him the result would not have been so serious. [5]
How far the facts sustain the conclusion that he draws, it is for intelligent and impartial men to decide. [7]
Miriam, who had done everything in her power to sustain the grieving wife, was also cheered by the sight of her happiness. [10]
And if I do my duty and do right, you will sustain me, will you not? [7]
He found it difficult with this dark, self-contained young woman to sustain the role of benefactor. [9]
I say he did not shift his ground, but that he brought forward his original charge and the evidence to sustain it yet more fully, but precisely as he originally made it. [7]
Mr. Nicholls seems deeply to feel the wish to comfort and sustain his declining years. [14]
They are voluntary contributions, giving proof that the national resources are not at all exhausted, and that the national patriotism will sustain us through all. [7]
Numerous cases were cited to sustain this opinion. [5]
With all this before their eyes, the convention you represent have nominated Mr. Vallandigham for governor of Ohio, and both they and you have declared the purpose to sustain the national Union by all constitutional means. [7]
But Thy will be done; sustain Thou Thy servant! [5]
No man can be brave without blood to sustain his courage, any more than he can think, as the German materialist says, not absurdly, without phosphorus. [6]
I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious judgment I consistently can; but you must act. [7]
Lastly, it seemed as if two betrothals were to be made which promised to sustain the Emperor's statesmanship. [10]
The two things are precisely alike, and it is but natural that they should find similar arguments to sustain them. [7]
According to the analogy of other things in nature, it would seem that love must have something to feed on to sustain it. [4]
And more proclamations, a la Napoleon, were issued to sustain and hearten those who were finding bread and onions meagre fare, to shame the hesitating, the wavering. [9]

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