Support ( page 348 ).
Questions.
1. What do support and sustain alike signify? 2. How does sustain surpass support in meaning and force? 3. What is the force and use of bear in this connection? 4. What is it to maintain? 5. How does maintain compare with support as to fulness and as to dignity? 6. What is it to prop? What is the limit upon the meaning of this word?
Examples.
And Cain said, My punishment is great than I can ——.
You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth —— my house.
Can a soul like mine,
Unus'd to power, and form'd for humbler scenes,
—— the splendid miseries of greatness?
While less expert, tho stronger far,
The Gael ——ed unequal war.