As prisoners weaken, they are taken to hospitals, but physicians said they could not ethically force patients to eat or take sustenance intravenously.
Like a vulture, Avery eventually takes sustenance from several escorts ("It seemed frankly churlish to refuse"), but in the blameless way of all carrion-eaters.
In a week that saw painful conflict over the meaning of life and suffering, the Pontiff grew unable to take sustenance orally.
Most denizens of the Hill District take it on faith that she was born at the dawn of African slavery, and Wilson gives her the power to "wash" supplicants' souls in racial memories that help them take sustenance from the past, rather than being overwhelmed by it.
They were not quite the "slaves of defunct economists", but certainly took intellectual sustenance from a group of mostly Austrian thinkers, such as Friedrich von Hayek, whose work assumed that an increased role for the state (such as was represented by Labour's policies in Britain) would lead eventually to what Hayek himself called "the state of mind in which Nazism could become successful".
This polished story collection takes its sustenance from class conflict, rough men and strong women, and the intersection between hotheads and cool customers.
Petrarch climbed Ventoux wearing a dress, and toting a copy of Augustine's Confessions; in his account he tells us he stopped occasionally to take spiritual sustenance from random readings.
Then again, there are days — especially in August, especially when the weather doesn't play nice — when the celestial figures take their sustenance elsewhere, and the orbs in City Hall seem to burn a little less brightly.
The people who depend on the reefs for food, and for shelter from the waves; the economies that count on tourist dollars; the people who take spiritual sustenance from the ongoing drama beneath the waves.
Its takes its sustenance from the enormous wealth generated by Wall Street as well as the presence of a large "trustifarian" class.
