secours
Example Sentences
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There was the phase of ravitaillement, the constant provisioning of the whole land; and the phase of secours, the special care of the destitute and the ill and the children.
From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
The surgeon went from stretcher to stretcher looking at the diagnosis cards attached at the poste de secours, stopping occasionally to ask the fatal question, "As-tu craché du sang?"
From A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston
She thought of the days in Paris when she had so successfully assumed the garb of the sœur de bon secours, and kept nightly vigils beside the bed of Maurice.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
But he thought only of his comrade and went on down the road toward Souain nursing his mangled hand, with the stream of wounded seeking their 'postes de secours'.
From Poems by Alan Seeger
We went to see the dim cellars which form the two "postes au secours."
From My War Experiences in Two Continents by Betty Keays-Young Salmon
