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Sustenance

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Sustenance
Amalthaea
goat who provided milk for baby Zeus. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 41]
ambrosia
food of the gods; bestowed immortal youthfulness. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 19]
locusts and wild honey
John the Baptist’s meager fare in wilderness. [N.T.: Matthew 3:4; Mark 1:6]
manna
given by the Lord to the Israelites. [O.T.: Exodus 16: 14–15]
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Very weak I was already; without sustenance I should surely die.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
In the same manner must a bliss, of which now they could have no conception, grow up within these children, and form a part of their sustenance for immortality.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
"Thou forgettest, however, Ben-Levi," replied Abel-Phittim, "that the Roman Pompey, who is now impiously besieging the city of the Most High, has no assurity that we apply not the lambs thus purchased for the altar, to the sustenance of the body, rather than of the spirit.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
 
 
 
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