Word: succored
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...church and made her his wife. When later asked by an admirer how he had fared in those critical days of invasion, Goethe instantly assumed his statuary expression: "I was like a man who from the height of a cliff surveys the raging sea. Though he cannot succor the shipwrecked, neither can he be reached by the tumultuous waters...
Aboard the Amethyst, other wounded and the dead still lay on the deck. The British destroyer Consort had started from Nanking at the Amethyst's first S O S, to succor the stranded crew. The Consort was flying seven large British flags. She, too, was fired upon by the Reds, and retaliated with her 4½-inch guns. "It was bloody awful," said a Cockney survivor from the Consort. "But we gave it back to 'em. I saw one of their nahsty damned 'owitzers blown right aht of its bloody emplacement. Sky 'igh it went...
...storm was ill-timed for exam harried students. Bounced, soggy posteriors and benumbed fingers found little succor in the hard seated exam halls. As one dazed undergraduate, whose name is withheld because he couldn't remember it, so succinctly summed...
...England's last, fading traces of pagan religion, stemming from the same roots as the animal sacrifices of the Greeks and the fertility rites of the Egyptians. When King Saul found himself out of favor with his Maker, he turned to the Witch of Endor for advice and succor-and for centuries after King Saul, kings, scholars and peasants alike turned the same way for the same reason. Witches might be good or bad (i.e., they might practice white or black magic, or a mixture of both), but it never occurred even to intelligent Europeans as late as Shakespeare...
...antimacassar and curdle his comfortable blood with fiction about fiends in human form. So Victorian Novelist Wilkie Collins, who dispensed such fiction, was not displeased, one moonlit night in the 1850s, when a beautiful lady, robed all in white, ran up to him on a lonely road, screaming for succor. She had escaped, explained the white lady, from a fiend who had held her in durance with the help of hypnotic powers and a kitchen poker...