Subsisted
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200 years ago, 90 percent of the world's population
subsisted
in extreme poverty.
More example sentences with word subsisted
I just purchased a DVD copy of this film, having
subsisted
on an ancient VHS tape for a few years.
She told me she would take that part upon her, and she did so, and managed it so dexterously, that the first time we were together alone, after she had talked with him, he began to inquire a little into my circumstances, as how I had
subsisted
myself since I came on shore, and whether I did not want money.
I asked him why he would be so unkind to carry me into Ireland, when I might suppose he could not have
subsisted
me there.
Anselmo remarked the cessation of Lothario's visits, and complained of it to him, saying that if he had known that marriage was to keep him from enjoying his society as he used, he would have never married; and that, if by the thorough harmony that
subsisted
between them while he was a bachelor they had earned such a sweet name as that of "The Two Friends," he should not allow a title so rare and so delightful to be lost through a needless anxiety to act circumspectly; and so he entreated him, if such a phrase was allowable between them, to be once more master of his house and to come in and go out as formerly, assuring him that his wife Camilla had no other desire or inclination than that which he would wish her to have, and that knowing how sincerely they loved one another she was grieved to see such coldness in him.
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