Kate was devoted to her child, but the attention she gave it was Unsustained, a desultory attention.
"A Mummer's Wife"
George Moore
In India a man seldom becomes, what he too often is, in all our large cities, a mere lonely, isolated unit, left entirely to the mercy of his own impulses, constrained by no social circle of any description, and Unsustained by the pressure of any public opinion for which he has the least regard.
"Crime and Its Causes"
William Douglas Morrison
On reflecting on the circumstances of that awful night, in after-life, I have thought that the force in the rear of the Hurons began to melt away, even before Herman Mordaunts support was received, leaving their front weak and Unsustained.
"Satanstoe"
James Fenimore Cooper