succor

How To Use succor In A Sentence

• Knowing this neighbourhood as I do, I have sent out boy scouts armed with catapults and homing pigeons to locate and succour your undoubtedly acned messenger, who has, I suspect, been lured into a den serving potent drinks and fevered women who have taken his mind off his job and transferred it to his own gratification. Archive 2007-02-01
• That is likely to give succour to all those who loathe liberal values and democracy. Times, Sunday Times
• The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly. Times, Sunday Times
• They were succoured from the fire by the rescue helicopter.
• This plant, the succory of former days, is greatly esteemed by the French, by whom it is known as barbe de capucin. The Art of Living in Australia
• These newcomers earned their living as small businessmen, religious teachers or labourers and were later to provide succour and support for the third wave of Indonesian migration to Thailand.
• The manna that succored the Israelites in the wilderness was gathered in baskets, which thus formed part of a divine act of national salvation.
• Indeed, this be of that which is incumbent on us, O King, and I say, ‘Praised be Allah!’ in that He hath guerdoned thee with His gifts and vouchsafed thee of His mercy, the welfare of the realm; and hath succoured thee and ourselves, on condition that we increase in gratitude to Him; and all this no otherwise than by thine existence! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Violet leaves, wild tansie, succory-roots, large mace, raisins, and damask prunes boil'd with a chicken and a crust of bread. The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
• Thérèse also bolstered the priesthood, succoring and strengthening God's ministers through prayer and friendship.