Not that there was one chance in a thousand they would ever need such things around Bloomsbury, though there was Lake Sunrise to be reckoned with; but just then it struck the boy that every well equipped aeroplane ought always to carry a couple of rubber rings along, which, in moments of dire necessity could be blown full of air, and would serve to sustain wrecked aviators until help came.

Frank did not seem to doubt it, for he had the utmost confidence in the ability of those aluminum pontoons to sustain a great weight without sinking.

At the same time the colonial legislatures promptly approved and agreed to sustain the acts of the Continental Congress.

They made noble sacrifices and they fought gallantly, but they did not rise above local patriotism and sustain the Continental cause.

By patience unparalleled and efforts unceasing, Washington slowly wrought upon Congress to sustain him in building up a "Continental" army, in place of the shifting bodies of militia.

Her trembling limbs refused to sustain her, as the Deer-killer, stalking towards the ring, calls aloud"Take her from the sacred feast; should she eat with the maidens?she, under whose bosom lies a warrior's child?

"By themselves sustain the brunt of every battle.

It should be the open and universal demand of the American people that those who represent us shall place the relations we sustain to other nations permanently on the same plane of frank honesty, generally prevailing among individuals.

Deservedly obtained, it heals every wound, and soothes all pain; nay, the mere hope of it will steel him against every danger, and sustain him amidst disease, penury, neglect, and oppression.

Will you be able to bear the look of Hannibal himself, which armed hosts cannot sustain, from which the Roman people shrink with horror?

The first party being thus repulsed, Maharbal was sent with a more powerful body of troops; but neither could even he sustain the sally of the cohorts.

In the future measures to be adopted in regard to the Indians within our limits, and, in consequence, within the limits of any State, the United States have duties to perform and a character to sustain to which they ought not to be indifferent.

Surrounded as they are, and pressed as they will be, on every side by the white population, it will be difficult if not impossible for them, with their kind of government, to sustain order among them.

If water were somewhat more rarefied, it could no longer sustain those prodigious floating buildings, called ships.

"On her he calls in accents wild, "And wonders why her step is slow "To save her suff'ring child! "Rob'd in the regal garb, his brother stands "In more majestic woe "And meets the impious stroke with bosom bare; "Then fearless grasps the murd'rer's hands, "And asks the minister of hell to spare "The child whose feeble arms sustain "His bleeding form from cruel Death.

Ah, see his uncomplaining soul sustain 85 The sting of insult, and the dart of pain; His stedfast spirit feels one pang alone; A child's despair awakes one suff'ring groan

Grotius says, that "slavery places man in an unnatural relation to mana relation which nothing but positive law can sustain."

For, if their provisions are of an inferior quality, or in a damaged state, their power to sustain labor must be greatly diminished.

Now we do not say that meat is necessary to sustain men under hard and long continued labor, nor that it is not.

This is not a treatise on dietetics; but it is a notorious fact, that the medical faculty in this country, with very few exceptions, do most strenuously insist that it is necessary; and that working men in all parts of the country do believe that meat is indispensable to sustain them, even those who work within doors, and only ten hours a day, every one knows.

We now solicit the attention of the reader to the following unanimous testimony, of the civilized world, to the utter insufficiency of this amount of food to sustain human beings under labor.

These, with other circumstances, necessarily make larger and longer draughts upon the strength of the slave, produce consequently greater exhaustion, and demand a larger amount of food to restore and sustain the laborer than is required by the convict in his briefer, less exposed, and less exhausting toils.

The Senator, as if fearing that he had made his charge too broad, and might fail in proof to sustain it, seems to stop short, and make the inquiry, where is the process of amalgamation to begin?

This sacrifice is required of us, in order to sustain slavery.

Privations at the outset, and very hard work, would have, it is true, to be endured; but John believed him and his wife to be endowed with courage and patience to sustain any trial.