The probability is that Defoe Subsisted on his pension from the Government during his last two years of wandering; and suffering though he was from the infirmities of age, yet wandering was less of a hardship than it would have been to other men, to one who had been a wanderer for the greater part of his life.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
He had been for eight-and-forty years insensible; in all that time the current of life had been frozen in him, not dried up and extinguished; therefore, taking his age to be fifty-five when the frost seized him, he would now be one hundred and three years old, having Subsisted into this great span of time in fact, though confronting me with the aspect of an elderly man merely.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
This union, at times, Subsisted from a very early date.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton