secours

Example Sentences

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I-tsing tells us: 'Le roi me donna des secours grâce auxquels je parvins au pays de Mo-louo-yu; j'y séjournai derechef pendant deux mois.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

How the white knight defended the lady of Nohalt, ¶ Comment la dame de noehault7 enuoya deuers le roy artus, luy supplier quil luy enuoyast secours contre le Roy de norhombellande qui luy menoit guerre.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

Henry added, in as low a voice, and without looking at me, "Notre Dame de bon secours."

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Fullerton, Georgiana

The sœur de bon secours, who had watched him through the night, had yielded her place to the "sister," who assumed the office of nurse during the day.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt

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 Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)