supported

“The proofs, the proofs!” said the president; “remember this tissue of horrors must be supported by the clearest proofs.”

He was quite short and stout and had a big head, which was flat at the top and supported by a thick neck full of wrinkles.

I have good hopes of managing it through my own arrangements; but it is a thing which needs delicate handling, for we have a shrewd and desperate man to deal with, who is supported, as I have had occasion to prove, by another who is as clever as himself.

With the aid of his pickaxe, Dantès, after the manner of a labor-saving pioneer, dug a mine between the upper rock and the one that supported it, filled it with powder, then made a match by rolling his handkerchief in saltpetre.