"Sustain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are able to live without physical toil and those who are not are a long way from final adjustment, but are about to undergo a profound and essential alteration. That this is to come by peaceful evolution is a hope which has nothing in history to sustain it. There are to be bloody noses and cracked crowns, and the good people who suffer themselves to be shocked by such things in others will have a chance to try them for themselves. The working man is not troubling himself greatly about a just allotment ...
— The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce
... was the conflict maintained by the third and the seventh legions. Antonius in person led on a select body of auxiliaries to the same quarter. The Vitellians were no longer able to sustain the shock of men all bent on victory, and seeing their darts fall on the military shell, and glide off without effect, at last they rolled down their battering-engine on the heads of the besiegers. For the moment, it dispersed and overwhelmed the party among which, it fell; ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various
... henceforth never set thy foot In house or field thou didst this day possess. Mark what I say: advise thee to look to't, Or else, be sure, thou diest remediless. Nor from those houses see that thou receive So much as shall sustain thee for an hour, But as thou art, go where thou canst; get friends, And he that feeds ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... for myself," he retorted with a lame effort at dignity which he was unable to sustain. His eyes fell from mine. "Besides, I'm almost quite certain that the last time it was the melon. Wretched ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... Were the oxidation corresponding to that labourer's work exerted on the muscles alone, they would be utterly consumed in 80 days. The heart furnishes a still more striking example. Were the oxidation necessary to sustain the heart's action exerted upon its own tissue, it would be utterly consumed in 8 days. And if we confine our attention to the two ventricles, their action would be sufficient to consume the associated muscular tissue in 3.5 days. Here, in his own ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
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