secours

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A quoi bon une methode, une autorité infaillible, un enseignement Divin, si nous n'avons que des facultés trompeuses pour user de ces secours?

From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James

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

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

Mais non: dans ce dessein je l'aurais devancée; L'amour m'en eût d'abord inspiré la pensée; C'est moi, prince, c'est moi dont l'utile secours Vous eût du labyrinthe enseigné les détours.

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton

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