another reversal: "sustain"
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Nov 9 22:25:15 UTC 2011
An English archaeologist on a National Geographic show inspects a
seventh-century skull and finds: "a sharp injury that was sustained by
a sword or an ax."
I.e., "inflicted."
JL
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