secours

Example Sentences

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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 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

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 Beston, Henry

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

Belgium has a Commission royale permanente des soci�t�s de secours mutuel.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various