The crystal sustains you for eternity and binds you.
It resembles the flying creature only in this, that it is immersed in the ocean of air in which it sustains itself.
Is it because she's his mate or because her blood sustains him?
Many of these still remain in another form (the district hospital, the lunatic asylum, the gaol, two asylums for the infirm and destitute, the Protestant and Catholic orphan schools), involving a government expenditure which partly sustains the business of the town.
Hence the upper region of the Alps sustains a far more varied and brilliant vegetation.