supply

So, my dear mother, I am going at once to ask Franz to lend me the small sum I shall require to supply my present wants.”

“It is humiliating,” said he, “thus to receive money given grudgingly,—an uncertain supply which may soon fail.

Have we reached the limits of what reason can supply?”

The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I was probably on the right track.