It appears likely that few unmarried women or widows can undertake this work, because it does not suffice to afford a subsistence wage.

JOHNSTON, MARY. Community programs for subsistence gardens.

From these outsiders living at subsistence levels, Europeans could get their supplies of food and raw materials at low prices and to them Europeans could sell their surplus manufactures, their commercial services, and their investment capital at high prices.

Another very interesting indication of the minimum cost of living in the cheapest native style, consistent with health, and a very moderate degree of comfort, is furnished by the experience of our village officers to whom we make a subsistence allowance of from eight to twelve annas per week.

He claimed subsistence money, like the rest of the merchants and factors, the Company's table having been abolished.

Wages have fallen during the last few years to the barest subsistence point, and even below.

The provisions, presents of goods, and subsistence supplies of the commissioners' table, occupied four boats, and went next.

Herdsmen and land workers, dependent on grass and rainfall, lived close to the subsistence margin and were at the mercy of forces they could not control.

Let it be my excuse that the mistakes I may have committed in lesser particulars, have arisen from my eagerness to seize and promulgate those great truths in the philosophy and theology of Plato, which though they have been concealed for ages in oblivion, have a subsistence coeval with the universe, and will again be restored, and flourish for very extended periods, through all the infinite revolutions of time.

In the third circle we find independent subsistence farmers.