sustentated

Updated: May 7, 2025

This done, he charged the islanders; and, as might have been foretold, killed a multitude, and drove the rest into the sea. But he was only the first of a long list of holy and hard-hitting ones who have, by this divine restorative, been sustentated, fortified, corroborated, and consoled." "Dear father, prithee add thyself to that venerable company ere the soup cools."

Charles Reade - The Cloister and the Hearth