746 examples of subsistence in sentences

The remaining 10,200 received subsistence from the government.

3,000 of these were members of families whose heads were carrying on plantations, and had undertaken cultivation of 4,000 acres of cotton, pledging themselves to pay the government for their subsistence from the first income of the crop.

There was one remaining point essential to the subsistence of an army besieged, and that was an abundant supply of water.

The Story farther tells us, that by this means he got a very comfortable Subsistence, till making too much haste to grow Rich, he one Day took such an unreasonable Pinch out of the Box of a Swiss Officer, as engaged him in a Quarrel, and obliged him to quit this Ingenious Way of Life.

They afford the wild animals their shelter and their abode, and yield them the greater part of their subsistence.

WEYLER THE "BUTCHER," was put in command and inaugurated the policy of establishing military zones inside of the Spanish lines, into which the unarmed farmers, merchants, women and children were driven, penniless; and being without any visible means of subsistence were left to perish from hunger and disease.

Quacks abound like locusts in Egypt, and too many have recommended themselves to a full practice and profitable subsistence.

To give him the power to dismiss at his will and pleasure, without limitation or control, is to give him an absolute and unlimited control over the subsistence of almost all who hold office under government.

He saw regular streets where he once pursued a hare; he saw churches rising upon morasses, where he had often heard the croaking of frogs; he saw wharves and warehouses where he had often seen Indian savages draw fish from the river for their daily subsistence; and he saw ships of every size and use in those streams where he had often seen nothing but Indian canoes....

Often no public provision was made for their pay, equipments, or subsistence.

comp. of ἐπί, for, and οὐσία, subsistence; used only here; acc.

But among all, Anna found means of subsistence for many months.

To show you the extremes that meet at our treasury,General Sewall, of Maine, a revolutionary officer, eighty-five years oldWilliam Philbrick, a little boy near Boston, not four years oldand a colored woman, who makes her subsistence by selling apples in the streets in this city, lately sent in their respective sums to assist in promoting the emancipation of the "poor slave.

I also know that an aged slave of his, (by marriage,) was allowed to get a scanty and precarious subsistence, by begging in the streets of Charlestonhe was too old to work, and therefore his allowance was stopped, and he was turned out to make his living by begging.

If there is among human convictions one that is invariable and universal, it is, that when men possess unrestrained power over others, over their time, choice, conscience, persons, votes, or means of subsistence, they are under great temptations to abuse it; and that the intensity with which such power is desired, generally measures the certainty and the degree of its abuse.

The Legislature will have indefinite power to tax them by excises, and duties on imports; both of which will fall heavier on them than on the Southern inhabitants; for the bohea tea used by a Northern freeman will pay more tax than the whole consumption of the miserable slave, which consists of nothing more than his physical subsistence and the rag that covers his nakedness.

Disgust, which commonly follows these sort of unions, caused Madame Guerrier to be deserted by her lover, and she was obliged to turn a teacher of languages for her subsistence.

Englishmen are free; and no man is to be charged with villainy, because he changes one source of subsistence for another.

I will retire with my son to Florence; we have still the means of subsistence, and I must endeavour to forget the past.

Some of these impostors, too insolent in their practices, were discovered and punished, whilst others derived from them their whole fortune and subsistence.

The Grand Canal, which runs about five hundred miles, without allowing for windings, across the kingdom of China, is not only the means by which subsistence is brought to the inhabitants of the imperial city, but is of great value in conveying the tribute, a large portion of the revenue being paid in kind.

Every thing under his charge received his personal attention, and there was no reason to suppose the army would lack for subsistence, so long as he should remain to supply its wants.

Commissaries of subsistence will issue, on the requisitions of Chaplain Eaton, omitting the coffee ration, and substituting rye.

Fortunately, owing to the fact that she had behind her means of subsistence without her salary, she was able to refuse his unsatisfactory offer, although at considerable violence to her feelings, for she had made many friends in the neighbourhood.

By brute strength, by sagacity, by endurance he killed in order to get the means of subsistence.

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