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1. Lucy swallowed, desperate to bring succour to her parched throat
2. Today she wished to holiday in Crete and live like they did, these people who provided succour, and tonight, she was sure, would provide the next heir to her line
3. Little did the generous Americans who sent the “Texas” for the Cubans realise that their donations would providentially succour their own soldiers, whose lives were imperilled by incompetent officialdom
4. succour, a symbol and an approach to the Divine
5. 5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed of the Syrians two and twenty
6. for us, but now you are worth ten thousand of us, therefore now it is better that you succour us out of the city
7. land; 53 And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever they could flee for succour
8. 50 Nevertheless, when they reflected on the succour before granted them from Heaven, they
9. 52 Then many of the people were gathered to them to wit everyone who forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land; 53 And drove the Israelites into secret places even wheresoever they could flee for succour
10. 44 So they joined their forces and struck sinful men in their anger and wicked men in their anger but the rest fled to the heathen for succour
11. 9 So he who had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land retiring to the Lacedemonians and thinking there to find succour by reason of his kindred: 10 And he who had throw out many unburied had none to mourn for him nor any solemn funerals at all nor tomb with his fathers
12. 50 Nevertheless when they reflected on the succour before granted them from Heaven they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breasts and 51 sent up an exceeding great cry entreating the Lord of all power to reveal himself and have mercy on those who now lay at the Gates of Hades
13. All the strength, succour you want is within yourselves
14. able to succour them that are
15. This same priesthood were tempted by the high office and riches offered to them to aid and abet in the rape and cruelty imposed on a whole nation, a nation it was their sworn duty to succour and teach the basic rules the gods laid down for civilized men to live by
16. Phaedra gave succour to him and he would lapse in and out of the void under her watchful gaze
17. He could easily make it down the mountainside to the succour of the trees and the warmth of the lower altitude
18. cannot but help them bring immediate succour
19. More humane we assert than succour the hurt,
20. Then Soames came in--an angel of succour, was Fanny's view; blast him, was Edward's,--and after a slight hesitation, because for months past no door opened by him had opened on proximities, and he was taken aback that it should be the bald gentleman who had managed to get into one, said, recovering his balance, "Lady Tintagel and Mrs
21. This year the manoeuvres are up our way, so that we are blest with more than our usual share of attention, and wherever you go you see soldiers, and the holy calm that has brooded over us all the summer has given place to a perpetual running to and fro of officers' servants, to meals being got ready at all hours, to the clanking of spurs and all those other mysterious things on an officer that do clank whenever he moves, and to the grievous wailings of my unfortunate menials, who are quite beside themselves, and know not whither to turn for succour
22. Lord, pity, help, and succour the poor, and those in affliction and distress
23. Recover the sick, ease the pained, succour the tempted, relieve the oppressed, and give joy to those that mourn in Zion
24. stoned out of its senses with the scent and succour of raw sex burning on all fronts and
25. (O Allah! O The Succour of those who
26. "God is merciful; look to the Most High for succour," the priest began
27. "For the love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity, of the honour of your noble name, I supplicate you, Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, to succour and release me
28. It was the business of a knight-errant to right wrongs, redress injuries, and succour the distressed, and this, as a matter of course, he makes his business when he takes up the part; a knight-errant was bound to be intrepid, and so he feels bound to cast fear aside
29. 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
30. 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
31. "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
32. Then it was he wished for the sword of Amadis, against which no enchantment whatever had any power; then he cursed his ill fortune; then he magnified the loss the world would sustain by his absence while he remained there enchanted, for that he believed he was beyond all doubt; then he once more took to thinking of his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso; then he called to his worthy squire Sancho Panza, who, buried in sleep and stretched upon the pack-saddle of his ass, was oblivious, at that moment, of the mother that bore him; then he called upon the sages Lirgandeo and Alquife to come to his aid; then he invoked his good friend Urganda to succour him; and then, at last, morning found him in such a state of desperation and perplexity that he was bellowing like a bull, for he had no hope that day would bring any relief to his suffering, which he believed would last for ever, inasmuch as he was enchanted; and of this he was convinced by seeing that Rocinante never stirred, much or little, and he felt persuaded that he and his horse were to remain in this state, without eating or drinking or sleeping, until the malign influence of the stars was overpast, or until some other more sage enchanter should disenchant him
33. satisfied;" and without saying anything more he went and knelt before Dorothea, requesting her Highness in knightly and errant phrase to be pleased to grant him permission to aid and succour the castellan of that castle, who now stood in grievous jeopardy
34. Don Quixote held his peace and said no more, calmly awaiting the reply of the beauteous princess, who, with commanding dignity and in a style adapted to Don Quixote's own, replied to him in these words, "I give you thanks, sir knight, for the eagerness you, like a good knight to whom it is a natural obligation to succour the orphan and the needy, display to afford me aid in my sore trouble; and heaven grant that your wishes and mine may be realised, so that you may see that there are women in this world capable of gratitude; as to my departure, let it be forthwith, for I have no will but yours; dispose of me entirely in accordance with your good pleasure; for she who has once entrusted to you the defence of her person, and placed in your hands the recovery of her dominions, must not think of offering opposition to that which your wisdom may ordain
35. I know and feel that I am enchanted, and that is enough to ease my conscience; for it would weigh heavily on it if I thought that I was not enchanted, and that in a faint-hearted and cowardly way I allowed myself to lie in this cage, defrauding multitudes of the succour I might afford to those in need and distress, who at this very moment may be in sore want of my aid and protection
36. But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble
37. "Don Quixote I am," replied Don Quixote, "he whose profession it is to aid and succour the living and the dead in their necessities; wherefore tell me who thou art, for thou art keeping me in suspense; because, if thou art my squire Sancho Panza, and art dead, since the devils have not carried thee off, and thou art by God's mercy in purgatory, our holy mother the Roman Catholic Church has intercessory means sufficient to release thee from the pains thou art in; and I for my part will plead with her to that end, so far as my substance will go; without further delay, therefore, declare thyself, and tell me who thou art
38. uncle was compelled by his declining health, to seek the succour of a milder
39. Earnshaw soon convinced him that he was alive still; Joseph hastened to administer a dose of spirits, and by their succour his master presently regained motion and consciousness
40. But the horsemen rode eastward to the succour of Jomer: H®rin the Tall Warden of the Keys, and the Lord of Lossarnach, and Hirluin of the Green Hills, and Prince Imrahil the fair with his knights all about him
41. world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till
42. Before long I must go to him in Newgate Prison and offer whatsoe’er Aid and Succour my paltry Resources could provide
43. She took her Role as Servant in a most spiritual Sense and was resolv’d to succour my Immortal Soul as well as attend to my grosser physical Needs
44. In this manner many appalling hours passed; several of my dogs died, and I myself was about to sink under the accumulation of distress when I saw your vessel riding at anchor and holding forth to me hopes of succour and life
45. Comfort and succour to the poor,
46. The nobleman replies that some time ago, being in danger of death, he asked succour from hell
47. And here the preachers of the positivist, communistic, socialistic brotherhoods, to succour the human love, which has proved insufficient, propose the Christian love,—in its consequences alone, and not in its foundations: they propose the love of humanity alone, without the love of God
48. The support which we have received, and for which we are deeply grateful, has been far beyond our most sanguine hopes, and has caused us to dispense with no small portion of those less important efforts of our own, with which we were prepared to succour our infant undertaking