Succour
in example sentence
Religion, however, seemed no more able to
succour
him than surgery, and the invincible gangrene still spread from the extremities towards the stomach.
More example sentences with word succour
'They are beginning to say,' the turnkey added, 'that your heart must indeed be hardened if you refuse the
succour
of this holy man.''O my country!
For in those plains and deserts where they engaged in combat and came out wounded, it was not always that there was some one to cure them, unless indeed they had for a friend some sage magician to
succour
them at once by fetching through the air upon a cloud some damsel or dwarf with a vial of water of such virtue that by tasting one drop of it they were cured of their hurts and wounds in an instant and left as sound as if they had not received any damage whatever.
In defence of these, as time advanced and wickedness increased, the order of knights-errant was instituted, to defend maidens, to protect widows and to
succour
the orphans and the needy.
"Then if so," said Don Quixote, "here is a case for the exercise of my office, to put down force and to
succour
and help the wretched."
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