succor

Example Sentences

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The church was built in the neighboring community of Bancker, as Our Lady of Prompt Succor.

From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2019

Henry Morgenthau, head of the International Loan Commission for the Succor of Greek Refugees, an ex-U.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eleanor Chang, since age eighteen a professed Sister of the Order of the Compassionate Mother of Succor and known as Sister Mary Piety.

From The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel by Wilson, Ann

Succor could not arrive, he argued, and they were in duty bound to save the surviving civilians and the women and children.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

Succor was a question of months, not days or weeks.

From Told in the East by Mundy, Talbot