Throughout the more ancient laws and institutions of the country, a property of the subject in the land is clearly recognized, and it is probable that it continued to subsist till the subversion of the Hindu government.
Though in the lower districts the food of the people is universally rice, in the higher and more mountainous parts they subsist principally on sweet potatoes and Indian corn.
This mode of election and consequent power, it must be observed, are no new introductions, but subsist in immemorial usage, and their nature and limits are well understood by the Javans throughout the island.
When in an enemy's country, the troops, of course, subsist by plunder, the disbursement of money for provisions or supplies being unknown.
Among several peoples who subsist chiefly by the chase or the rearing of cattle, the position of women is exceedingly good.
The cultivation of the ground mostly devolves on the woman, and among peoples who chiefly subsist by agriculture it is not an occupation which is looked down upon, as it is among nomadic tribes.
In one of the sacred books of India it is said that mourners shall fast during three days, and that, if they are unable to do so, they shall subsist on food bought in the market or given unasked.
When the vassal objected that he could not subsist on such a soil, the archbishop answered, "Why do you complain?
The Rocky Mountain Indians, though they often subsist for a great length of time on a very little food, will at their feasts "gorge down an incredible quantity.
Differences of religion (betwixt the Lutherans and the Calvinists) were to have no effect on this alliance, which was to subsist for ten years, every member of the union engaged at the same time to procure new members to it.
At that time they could not swallow solid food, so they were obliged to subsist on mush mixed with much water, till by degrees they became able to eat what they pleased.
Among the Eskimos, Aleuts, and other hyperborean nations, who subsist chiefly by fishing.
He had hoped to subsist in the woods, but found it impossible.
But notwithstanding the goodness of the soil it is a matter of astonishment how the natives, who know not how to avail themselves of its fertility, can subsist in the inland country.
Mary Anne bethought herself anew of the cakes put up in the adjacent room; and upon which, could they but get at them, they might subsist a great while without any other nourishment.
It was now ascertained that the provisions remaining were not sufficient to subsist all of the company until the Kennebec road could be reached by following the height of land.
In addition, we will be bound to remove them west of the Mississippi within five years, the period stipulated for their emigration, and to subsist them for one year after their arrival.
They were obliged, in their shivering, half frozen state, to subsist upon moss and seaweed, but for which indifferent nourishment they must inevitably have perished.
The young doubtless subsist upon the same materials, which they receive from their parents, in small pieces, during their earliest life.
When able to provide for themselves, they consort with their parents, and subsist with them on various kinds of seeds and berries.
Although chiefly a granivorous species, the Goldfinch does not subsist entirely upon seeds, but destroys vast numbers of insects in all their different stages.
It is impossible for this ingenious sort of men to subsist after a peace: every one remembers the shifts they were driven to in the reign of King Charles II.
The wild and chamois goats bothsubsist in a state of nature, and both are constantly distinct.
Have we not here yet one more proof that our ego, as we conceive it, could never subsist in the infinity where it must needs go, since it cannot go elsewhere?
What I blame the Shinnecock Indians for is their fatal yearning to subsist solely on this precarious income.
His ideas of the virtue of this aerial fluid were hardly exceeded by those of Mr. Thackrah, of Leeds, England, who believes that we subsist more on air than on food and drink.
He had attempted to board himself, to subsist on a very few ounces of "Graham wafers" at each meal, and to be an hour in masticating it.
There were times when he was actually compelled to subsist on the most scanty fare; while his principles, too, restricted him to very great plainness.
But notwithstanding this, the two establishments are so dependent on each other in many respects, that neither of them could well subsist alone.
Those nearest to the sea also subsist on fish; and it is said that there is, in the same sea, an island on which others of the same nation live.
They subsist by the chase, but at harvest time they obtain corn by bartering salt extracted from the sea and deerskins with other nations.
Velasco adds: The Ceris subsist on fish, the seeds of grass, and coastwise shrubs, as well as on the flesh of horses and deer, which they kill.
Only a couple of families [ein paar Familien] still reside in the village [Pueblo Seri], where they make ollas and subsist on the offal of the shambles.
We thus gradually extirpate this tribe of insects, and, with them, the species of birds which subsist principally upon them.
Instructions to them on that sin might have been almost as superfluous, as would be lectures on the sin of luxury, addressed to the poor Greenland disciples, whose poverty compels them to subsist on filthy oil.
He said his great object was to form the Corsicans in such a manner that they might have a firm constitution, and might be able to subsist without him.
There are some extraordinary customs which still subsist in Corsica.
The tumult of the inward creature may exist in the midst of the calmest outward daily life, and the peace which passeth understanding subsist in the turmoil of the most adverse circumstances.
The God of wind communicated it unto such Rishis as subsist upon what remains of sacrificial offerings after feeding guests and others.
As a matter of fact, however, they who subsist on leaves of trees, or use two stones only or their teeth alone for husking their grain, or live upon water only or air alone, succeed in conquering hell.
They subsist abstemiously upon wild herbs and fruits and roots and leaves of diverse kinds.
He is said to subsist upon sacrificial remnants, who eats only what remains after feeding the gods, the Pitris, servants, and guests.
Hearing these words, the Rishis said, 'Lo, this bird applauds those that subsist upon the remnants of sacrifices.
These worshippers of mine, possessed of lunar complexions, are divested of all senses and do not subsist upon any kind of food.
It was at this time that, that dreadful famine occurred which compelled the royal sage Viswamitra to subsist on a canine haunch.
It seems, O Salmali, that a close intimacy has come to subsist between thee and the Wind.
Those persons of little understanding that give away (wealth) unto men that have swerved from the duties of their order, have to subsist hereafter for a hundred years on ordure and dirt.
The gods and the Pitris subsist on the offerings made in sacrifices.
Those Rishis that subsist upon the froth of water then obtained it from Narayana.
What are those duties again to the observance of which kings like ourselves should force those tribes that subsist by robbery?
And the kernel formed by these is the element of truth and equity which imparts force to all those underground movements, and enables them to subsist and extend.
The larks and snow buntings that come to us from the north subsist almost entirely upon the seeds of grasses and plants; and how many of our more common and abundant species are field-birds, and entire strangers to deep forests?
One would think that, when food was scarcest, the policy of separating into small bands or pairs, and dispersing over a wide country, would prevail, as a few might subsist where a larger number would starve.
It is estimated that a crow needs at least half a pound of meat per day, but it is evident that for weeks and months during the winter and spring they must subsist on a mere fraction of that amount.
Many of them attain a height of 150 feet and upwards, and afford a home to numbers of fruit-eating pigeons which largely subsist on their fruits, and through whose agency the interiors of coral islets are stocked with these large trees.
They subsist on the opossums (Cuscus), waiting to catch them at the foot of the trunks of the trees as they descend to the ground at nightfall.
As I was informed by the natives of Simbo, these animals subsist on the shoots and young leaves of the trees: on board the "Lark" they cared for little else than bananas.
