secours

Example Sentences

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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

He shook like a leaf when her voice rang out: 'Au secours!

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox

We went to see the dim cellars which form the two "postes au secours."

From My War Experiences in Two Continents by Salmon, Betty Keays-Young

La le long de ses lits ou gemit le malheur, Victimes des secours plus que de la douleur, L'ignorance en courant fait sa ronde homicide, L'indifference observe et le hazard decide.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

They asked me, several times, if I was suffering, and offered to go on to the poste de secours if I wanted them to.

From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by Hall, James Norman