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They probably subsisted on insects and other small terrestrial invertebrates and perhaps even on small vertebrates.
I joined a hunger strike at Northwestern and subsisted on liquids for almost a week, but went off it when I almost fainted.
The cause of action is deemed to have subsisted before the death, allowing the claimant to sue the estate.
The beast subsisted on a diet of swamp things, but was known to occasionally snack on wayward lumberjacks and other unfortunates.
Although they had provisions to last a few days, they subsisted on bare minimum of rice gruel for energy to stay afloat.
Your columnist is clearly no match for Weissman, a New Jersey freegan who claims to have subsisted on a largely dumpster-based diet for a decade.
Many who subsisted on bitter wild oranges succumbed to cholera, malaria and dysentery.
By 2002, the single person on welfare in Ontario subsisted on only 35 percent of the poverty line.
These habitats have subsisted because this part of the lake has so far escaped much of the pressure from urban development.
In brief, these show that the court may award damages on sales made after the expiry of a patent provided they are caused by infringements arising whilst the patent subsisted.
Residents of the game reserve, who subsisted mainly on hunting and gathering, were at the time allowed to settle in the game reserve.
Though she subsisted on an allowance of only £5 a week she was often squired by equally glamorous beaux such as Mark Boxer.
He subsisted by pawning his few belongings and, according to legend, by eating sparrows trapped outside his attic window.
The household of 11 adults plus children subsisted on two goats a week, honey from a hive in the garden and Quaker Oats from a local shop.
When Labour took over, more than 5m working-age adults subsisted on state benefits.
For the Board, no doubt subsisted on the ability to pay of those who are liable for the tariff.
The pre-election delegation stressed that a number of concerns have subsisted throughout this election campaign.
However, it stressed a number of concerns which have subsisted throughout the campaign.
The people subsisted on cassava, which they grew in small garden plots and on fish, which they caught in the tributary.
Ramachari and his family subsisted on the income that he was able to generate from making farming implements for the farmers who lived around him in the village.
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Examples from Classical Literature
After these two great rulers the Fatimid caliphate subsisted for nearly two centuries by no virtue or energy of its own.
An old-time trader, who was lost for forty days and only able to get the prairie turnip, practically subsisted in this way.
In England it subsisted for some ages under the name of villeinage.
Husbanding this miserable supply, they dried the flesh, and for three days subsisted upon the nutriment extracted from the bones.
That of juda, formed of two tribes, subsisted 386 years, under 19 kings.
She has been dead a year, and you know, Fernand, I have subsisted almost entirely on public charity.
First then he sold the slaves, and subsisted for a time on the proceeds, after that the furniture was sold, and as much of it was valuable it sufficed for some time.
The girl wondered how they subsisted for she could not, even by the wildest stretch of imagination, picture these imperfect creatures as intelligent tillers of the soil.
The troops subsisted primarily on a diet of corned beef and hardtack crackers, and they learned to survive by trading with local inhabitants whenever possible.
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