Why, of course, that the number of marriages is definitely influenced by the ease with which sustenance is obtained.
I took it in as the hungry do food, and tried to hide the sustenance it gave.
They solicited sustenance often in great numbers, but even then their language was mild and respectful, and they were easily satisfied and always grateful.
I am treasurer of the Ancient Shepherds, and we passed a resolution yesterday unanimously, that we would devote all our funds to the sustenance of Labour in this its last and triumphant struggle against Capital.
Each party must earn its sustenance by fishing and fowling; and in making up your parties, there should be two or three men in each accustomed to this work.
Pages are given to an account of the biscuits and soda-water that on this and that occasion were found to be the sole means of sustenance to this ethereal creature.
The sycamore, whose shade was so welcome in the brazen glare of Egypt, had its counterpart in the Land of the Dead, and from its midst leaned out a Hathor, Lady of the Underworld, offering sustenance and water to the passing souls.
The obvious inference is, that any excess of food beyond that required forsustenance and milk-production would tend to increase the weight of the animal, which, according to the circumstances, may or may not be desirable.
Wolff's estimate of the amount required for sustenance and for milk-production is 2.
Live-Weight per Day, for Sustenanceand for Milk-Production.
We can do without silks or broadcloths while we possess the real means of sustenanceand defence.
Among necessaries of life we may include what one has to set aside for old age, sickness, increase of family, and the future sustenance of dependents who will need it (II Cor.
Example: Our Lord's direction to the disciples on their first mission that they should not carry their sustenance with them was required as a duty that they might learn to trust in Providence.
The soil which affords sustenance for the people is rightly charged with the cost of feeding those who lack the necessaries of life, but the same object would be better achieved in a different way.
After a short supplication, it was manifested to Samuel that they might obtain sustenance by traveling a short distance in a certain direction.
Many of the citizens were shot, in attempting to get out to obtain sustenance for themselves and families.
As yet the larger portion of mankind are bowed down their whole life long by hard labor, to procure sustenance for themselves and the few who think for them.
As yet our race wrings with difficulty its sustenance and its continuance from reluctant Nature.
The mills of the gods were grinding and the grist was to prove of sustenance to the country in unlooked-for ways.
The Innuits are a nomadic people, living during the winter in igloos, or ice huts, during the summer in skin tents called tupies, but moving from place to place as chance or the necessity of sustenance suggests.
Neither Dumah, the prince of the winds and the custodian of the dead, nor Rohab, the lord of the ocean, are to be degraded to the rank of Ashmodai who dwells in the clouds but depends for his sustenance on what the earth produces.
For no one either in life or after death has any right to deprive other men of the sustenance which mother earth provides for them.
No man, living or dead, shall deprive the living of the sustenance which the earth, their foster-parent, is naturally inclined to provide for them.
The supply of blood to the brain and nerve substance is curtailed in the same manner, and for lack of sustenance these structures commence to decay, which accounts for diminished mental activity and sensory impressions.
On the other hand, the wife must see to the sustenance of the husband.
The Greek states were cities with small territories, unable to supply the usual sustenance to a population in excess of a given number.
Presumably they had been living on a diet of lean and hungry Bedouin for many months and had found no sustenance therein; for they made of our well-nourished bodies a feast of Lucullus and gorged themselves to repletion.
The flow of milk of the foster-mother was quite sufficient for the sustenance of the adopted offspring, and enabled her to support and bring them up with as much care and affection as if they had been her own.
Pierre made up his mind to eat, for after all he must take sustenance for strength's sake.
