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  • In a funny way, she sounds like Liv Crawford when she reads from her books, a bit strident, overdramatic, with tones of succor.†   (source)
  • Trumpet notes filled the air, and the holy army rushed to succor its champions.†   (source)
  • And there is this: although the Home Army, like members of the Resistance elsewhere in Europe, had other concerns besides the succor and safekeeping of the Jews (as indeed there were one or two partisan factions in Poland that remained malignantly anti-Semitic), such help, generally speaking, was still high on their list of priorities; thus it is safe to say that it was at least partly because of their efforts in behalf of some of these incessantly stalked, mortally endangered Jews that dozens upon dozens of members of the underground were rapidly corralled, and that Sophie too—Sophie the stainless, the inaccessible, the uninvolved—was adventitiously ensnared.†   (source)
  • Each night that reception was good some of them had gathered in the Admiral's den and listened while he conned the wave lengths, hoping for news of peace, victory, succor, reconstruction.†   (source)
  • Thinkest thou my Father would not send
    Sky-darkening hosts of winged legions to my succor?†   (source)
  • Save me, succor me, make me wealthy ...protect me!†   (source)
  • Force them to make a public affirmation of the oaths sworn her father by the lords they served, and then call on them for succor, and her a woman, yes, that was sweet.†   (source)
  • For succor and protection.†   (source)
  • "We are marching to the city," said a tall woman in the traces of the wayn, "to bring these holy bones to Blessed Baelor, and seek succor and protection from the king."†   (source)
  • She would not come closer to me, as much as I thought she wished to, hungering not for anything like love but for plain, humble succor.†   (source)
  • "But, surely, we need these for the succor of the many afflicted here," I said, although my thoughts had sped immediately to my own needs rather than those of the dying.†   (source)
  • Thy benignity not only succors him who asks, but oftentimes freely foreruns the asking.†   (source)
  • Dr. George B. Rockham looked wildly about him for succor.†   (source)
  • Never more intensely than today had he, Father Paneloux, felt the immanence of divine succor and Christian hope granted to all alike.†   (source)
  • on the body of whatever strange woman would therefore carry on the tradition, accomplish the hereditary evil and harm under another name and upon and among people who will never have heard the right one; daughter doomed to spinsterhood who had chosen spinsterhood already before there was anyone named Charles Bon since the aunt who came to succor her in bereavement and sorrow found neither but instead that calm absolutely impenetrable face between a homespun dress and sunbonnet seen before a closed door and again in a cloudy swirl of chickens while Jones was building the coffin and which she wore during the next year while the aunt lived there and the three women wove their own garment†   (source)
  • One evening he returned insanely drunk, routed her out of her chamber and pursued her unfrocked, untoothed, unputtied, with a fluttering length of kimono in her palsied hand, driving her finally into the yard beneath the big cherry tree, which he circled, howling, making frantic lunges for her as she twittered with fear, casting splintered glances all over the listening neighborhood as she put on the crumpled wrapper, hid partially the indecent jigging of her breasts, and implored succor.†   (source)
  • These weary and lost travelers, almost starved, found in the oxen succor they so grievously needed.†   (source)
  • Nor did they ever fail to succor the sick and unfortunate.†   (source)
  • He ran swiftly, casting wild glances for succor.†   (source)
  • He will be your support and your succor.†   (source)
  • to succor the unfashionable and the eccentric?†   (source)
  • What friendly hand has a merciful Providence sent to my succor?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    To Him above bow down, my friends,
    Who teaches help, and succor sends!†   (source)
  • I have succored the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering.†   (source)
  • If succor be sent to me, I will accept it.†   (source)
  • It is probable that the succor of the English fleet will never even arrive in sight of the place.†   (source)
  • It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a traitor in order to succor it.†   (source)
  • Succor and comfort you will find not in me, though I have come only to aid you if I can.†   (source)
  • You struggle in vain; no more human succor is possible.†   (source)
  • You must thank Him, and pray to Him for succor.†   (source)
  • His father said to him: "Succor Thenardier!"†   (source)
  • Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them.†   (source)
  • —SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH.†   (source)
  • They succor the poor, they care for the sick.†   (source)
  • It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf.†   (source)
  • My child will not die of that frightful malady, for lack of succor.†   (source)
  • will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness?†   (source)
  • But it were shame that a king should know fear, and shame that belted knight should withhold his hand where be such as need succor.†   (source)
  • Somewhere he would meet a company of worthies who would succor him with laughter and talk and many drinks—not too many drinks, of course—and motor very rapidly to Lake Minnetonka for a moonlight swim.†   (source)
  • On an evil day for him he or his outlaws had beaten and robbed a man who once succored Duane when sore in need.†   (source)
  • For Señor Stewart it was natural to be loyal to his friend, to have a fine sense of the honor due to a woman who had loved and given, to bring about their marriage, to succor them in their need and loneliness.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, in matters of simple almsgiving, where there can be no question of social contact, and in the succor of the aged and sick, the South, as if stirred by a feeling of its unfortunate limitations, is generous to a fault.†   (source)
  • The cheery salutation he had ready for her died unborn and he tumbled the pieces of pottery awkwardly on the grass while some unfamiliar, deep-seated emotion, mixed with pity and glad assurance of his power to succor her, held him dumb.†   (source)
  • (To the officers): Gentlemen, when you shall see me charge, Bear me no succor, none, whate'er the odds†   (source)
  • The slave-driver lashed us desperately, for he saw ruin before him, but his lashings only made matters worse, for they drove us further from the road and from likelihood of succor.†   (source)
  • —I forbid you succor me!†   (source)
  • First it had been partly from a human feeling to succor an unfortunate woman, and partly a motive to establish clearly to himself that he was no outlaw.†   (source)
  • The leak had befallen again now, and these children would have prayed, and processioned, and tolled their bells for heavenly succor till they all dried up and blew away, and no innocent of them all would ever have thought to drop a fish-line into the well or go down in it and find out what was really the matter.†   (source)
  • For Thou art the defense, the succor, and the victory of them that put their trust in Thee, and to Thee be all glory, to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, now and forever, world without end.†   (source)
  • And when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to effectual succor, common sense bids the soul rid of it.†   (source)
  • As usual, this hotel was full of soldiers of this company, who hastened to the succor of their comrades.†   (source)
  • Oh, succor him!†   (source)
  • The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities.†   (source)
  • He was fighting in their defense—he knew that the mild principles of this little nation of practical Christians would be disregarded by their subtle and malignant enemies; and he felt the in jury the more deeply because he saw that the avowed object of the colonists, in withholding their succors, would only have a tendency to expose his command, without preserving the peace.†   (source)
  • The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men, and to succor their distresses.†   (source)
  • You have forgotten a wretch who tried to abduct you one night, a wretch to whom you rendered succor on the following day on their infamous pillory.†   (source)
  • This impression caused him to wish ardently for the presence and succor of his Mohican friend, and to look forward to the approach of sunset with an increasing anxiety.†   (source)
  • Mild and hospitable when at peace, though merciless in war beyond any known degree of human ferocity, the Indian would expose himself to die of hunger in order to succor the stranger who asked admittance by night at the door of his hut; yet he could tear in pieces with his hands the still quivering limbs of his prisoner.†   (source)
  • In every event, we are assured, by what has fallen from our enemies, that our friends have escaped, and in two short hours we may look for succor from Webb.†   (source)
  • Jacques considered it his duty to add,— "If your majesty does not send prompt succor to the bailiff, he is lost."†   (source)
  • At sunset we'll be reinforced by Chingachgook, if I can manage to get him into a canoe; and then, I think, we two can answer for the ark and the castle, till some of the officers in the garrisons hear of this war-path, which sooner or later must be the case, when we may look for succor from that quarter, if from no other.†   (source)
  • But one who has never harmed thee, and who cannot harm thy people, if she would; who asks for succor.†   (source)
  • Those were the knightly days of our profession, when we only bore arms to succor the distressed, and not to fill men's lamp-feeders.†   (source)
  • If the federal tie were broken, the citizens of the South would be wrong to rely upon any lasting succor from their Northern countrymen.†   (source)
  • He thought of Mabel, but for the parent to appeal to the child for such succor appeared like reversing the order of nature.†   (source)
  • Copies were put up at the corners of the streets; and even they who had begun to open negotiations interrupted them, being resolved to await the succor so pompously announced.†   (source)
  • "Our case is not, cannot be so hopeless!" said Duncan; "even at this very moment succor may be at hand.†   (source)
  • From the boat's fragmentary stern, Fedallah incuriously and mildly eyed him; the clinging crew, at the other drifting end, could not succor him; more than enough was it for them to look to themselves.†   (source)
  • The dying man's eyes were all the time riveted on the door, through which he hoped succor would arrive.†   (source)
  • "This proves that the Sarpent has not reached Oswego," said he, "and that we are not to expect succor from the garrison.†   (source)
  • we will succor monsieur the bailiff.†   (source)
  • This succor, which came to Porthos at the moment in which he was attacked in his gastronomic hopes, inspired much gratitude in the Musketeer toward the procurator's wife.†   (source)
  • While there is hope of succor, this fortress will I defend, though it be to be done with pebbles gathered on the lake shore.†   (source)
  • But when he came back from the doctor's and saw her sufferings again, he fell to repeating more and more frequently: "Lord, have mercy on us, and succor us!"†   (source)
  • —There was but one thing to be done; to allow himself to be killed on the threshold of Notre-Dame, to resist at least until succor arrived, if it should arrive, and not to trouble la Esmeralda's sleep.†   (source)
  • A view of his face, although it was swarthy naturally, and much darkened by exposure, left no doubt that her conjecture was true; and she felt as if there was now one of a species more like her own present, and one to whom she might appeal for succor in the last emergency.†   (source)
  • Yes, I need your help: that is I thought like a madman that you could lend me your assistance in a case where God alone can succor me.†   (source)
  • "Lord, have mercy on us, and succor us!" he repeated to himself incessantly, feeling, in spite of his long and, as it seemed, complete alienation from religion, that he turned to God just as trustfully and simply as he had in his childhood and first youth.†   (source)
  • Planchet and Fourreau, as pale as death, were trying to give him succor; but it was plain that all assistance was useless—all the features of the dying man were distorted with agony.†   (source)
  • But the general and his succor?†   (source)
  • Quasimodo who did not hear, saw the naked swords, the torches, the irons of the pikes, all that cavalry, at the head of which he recognized Captain Phoebus; he beheld the confusion of the outcasts, the terror of some, the disturbance among the bravest of them, and from this unexpected succor he recovered so much strength, that he hurled from the church the first assailants who were already climbing into the gallery.†   (source)
  • "Why die at all!" said Cora, advancing from the place where natural horror had, until this moment, held her riveted to the rock; "the path is open on every side; fly, then, to the woods, and call on God for succor.†   (source)
  • This letter told Buckingham that the city was at an extremity; but instead of adding, "If your succor does not arrive within fifteen days, we will surrender," it added, quite simply, "If your succor comes not within fifteen days, we shall all be dead with hunger when it comes."†   (source)
  • But, without arms of any description, ignorant of what succor his subtle enemy could command, and charged with the safety of one who was just then dearer than ever to his heart, he no sooner entertained than he abandoned the desperate intention.†   (source)
  • The latter did not, however, so much regret this circumstance, as it might enable him to retard the speed of the party; for he still turned his longing looks in the direction of Fort Edward, in the vain expectation of catching some sound from that quarter of the forest, which might denote the approach of succor.†   (source)
  • The death-like looking figure of the Mohican, and the dark form of the Huron, gleamed before their eyes in such quick and confused succession, that the friends of the former knew not where to plant the succoring blow.†   (source)
  • It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force.†   (source)
  • That they would receive succor about three o'clock in the morning—that they were sure of one regiment, that Paris would rise.†   (source)
  • When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes.†   (source)
  • Celimene would come to my succor, sir!†   (source)
  • He held his peace and lent succor.†   (source)
  • —SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went there.†   (source)
  • He doubts not that your honorable person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate.†   (source)
  • In the presence of the imminence of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the conflict, his two pistols in hand.†   (source)
  • Instead of the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,—instead of all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover!†   (source)
  • Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; and the first comer took it upon himself to save society.†   (source)
  • A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angouleme, surnamed by the liberal sheets the hero of Andujar, compressing in a triumphal attitude that was somewha†   (source)
  • "Sir," began Dougal, bowing formally to Colum, "we pray your indulgence and mercy with regard to a lady in need of succor and safe refuge.†   (source)
  • of pea) pease picket (military) piquet plow plough pretense pretence program programme pudgy podgy pygmy pigmy rancor rancour rigor rigour rumor rumour savory savoury scimitar scimetar septicemia septicaemia show (verb) shew siphon syphon siren syren skeptic sceptic slug (verb) slog slush slosh splendor splendour stanch staunch story (of a house) storey succor succour taffy toffy tire (noun) tyre toilet toilette traveler traveller tumor tumour valor valour vapor vapour veranda verandah vial phial vigor vigour vise (a tool) vice wagon waggon woolen woollen § 2 /General Tendencies/—This list is by no means exhaustive.†   (source)
  • Command th' assistance of a faithful friend; But feeble are the succors I can send.†   (source)
  • Hereafter can I look to any god For succor, call on any man for help?†   (source)
  • Your timely succor to your country bring, Haste to the rescue, and redeem your king.†   (source)
  • If native pow'r prevail not, shall I doubt To seek for needful succor from without?†   (source)
  • He calls new succors, and assaults the prince: But weak his force, and vain is their defense.†   (source)
  • If one was attacked, would the others fly to its succor, and spend their blood and money in its defense?†   (source)
  • And now, O Oedipus, our peerless king, All we thy votaries beseech thee, find Some succor, whether by a voice from heaven Whispered, or haply known by human wit.†   (source)
  • But he who other time had succored me, in other peril, soon as I mounted, clasped and sustained me with his arms: and he said, "Geryon, move on now; let the circles be wide, and the descending slow; consider the strange burden that thou hast."†   (source)
  • Finding themselves, though thus supported, unequal to the undertaking, they once more had recourse to the dangerous expedient of introducing the succor of foreign arms.†   (source)
  • She said, "Beatrice, true praise of God, why dost thou not succor him who so loved thee that for thee he came forth from the vulgar throng?†   (source)
  • A successful faction may erect a tyranny on the ruins of order and law, while no succor could constitutionally be afforded by the Union to the friends and supporters of the government.†   (source)
  • a friend of mine and not of fortune upon the desert hillside is so hindered on his road that he has turned for fear, and I am afraid, through that which I have heard of him in heaven, lest already he be so astray that I may have risen late to his succor.†   (source)
  • As flowerets, bent and closed by the chill of night, after the sun shines on them straighten themselves all open on their stem, so I became with my weak virtue, and such good daring hastened to my heart that I began like one enfranchised: "Oh compassionate she who succored me!†   (source)
  • This was frequently the case, in respect to the first object, in the course of the late war; and this mutual succor is, indeed, a principal end of our political association.†   (source)
  • Not thus I promis'd, when thy father lent Thy needless succor with a sad consent; Embrac'd me, parting for th' Etrurian land, And sent me to possess a large command.†   (source)
  • He has several times been compelled to owe obligations to the pecuniary succors of other nations for the preservation of his essential interests, and is unable, upon the strength of his own resources, to sustain a long or continued war.†   (source)
  • Young Silvia beats her breast, and cries aloud For succor from the clownish neighborhood: The churls assemble; for the fiend, who lay In the close woody covert, urg'd their way.†   (source)
  • May not the minor party possess such a superiority of pecuniary resources, of military talents and experience, or of secret succors from foreign powers, as will render it superior also in an appeal to the sword?†   (source)
  • His own Praeneste sends a chosen band, With those who plow Saturnia's Gabine land; Besides the succor which cold Anien yields, The rocks of Hernicus, and dewy fields, Anagnia fat, and Father Amasene—†   (source)
  • These thoughts by night her golden slumbers broke, And thus alarm'd, to winged Love she spoke: "My son, my strength, whose mighty pow'r alone Controls the Thund'rer on his awful throne, To thee thy much-afflicted mother flies, And on thy succor and thy faith relies.†   (source)
  • Both urge their oars, and fortune both supplies, And both perhaps had shar'd an equal prize; When to the seas Cloanthus holds his hands, And succor from the wat'ry pow'rs demands: "Gods of the liquid realms, on which I row!†   (source)
  • what succor can I find?†   (source)
  • If so the Fates ordain, Jove commands, Th' ungrateful wretch should find the Latian lands, Yet let a race untam'd, and haughty foes, His peaceful entrance with dire arms oppose: Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, His men discourag'd, and himself expell'd, Let him for succor sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace.†   (source)
  • Now Night had shed her silver dews around, And with her sable wings embrac'd the ground, When love's fair goddess, anxious for her son, (New tumults rising, and new wars begun,) Couch'd with her husband in his golden bed, With these alluring words invokes his aid; And, that her pleasing speech his mind may move, Inspires each accent with the charms of love: "While cruel fate conspir'd with Grecian pow'rs, To level with the ground the Trojan tow'rs, I ask'd not aid th' unhappy to restore, Nor did the succor of thy skill implore; Nor urg'd the labors of my lord in vain, A sinking empire longer to sustain, Tho'much I ow'd to Priam's house, and more The dangers of Aeneas did deplore.†   (source)
  • While fortune favor'd, nor Heav'n's King denied To lend my succor to the Latian side, I sav'd thy brother, and the sinking state: But now he struggles with unequal fate, And goes, with gods averse, o'ermatch'd in might, To meet inevitable death in fight; Nor must I break the truce, nor can sustain the sight.†   (source)
  • Aeneas, gone to seek th' Arcadian prince, Has left the Trojan camp without defense; And, short of succors there, employs his pains In parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.†   (source)
  • Scarce had he said; Achates and his guest, With downcast eyes, their silent grief express'd; Who, short of succors, and in deep despair, Shook at the dismal prospect of the war.†   (source)
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