SUCCOR in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for SUCCOR, such as:
1. He held his peace and lent succor.
2. They succor the poor, they care for the sick.
3. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them.
4. My child will not die of that frightful malady, for lack of succor.
5. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a traitor in order to succor it.
2. They succor the poor, they care for the sick.
3. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them.
4. My child will not die of that frightful malady, for lack of succor.
5. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a traitor in order to succor it.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SUCCOR
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succor
v. aid; assist and deliver from suffering; relieve
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 My child will not die of that frightful malady, for lack of succor.
2 When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes.
3 They succor the poor, they care for the sick.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
4 You struggle in vain; no more human succor is possible.
5 It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a traitor in order to succor it.
6 Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them.
7 He held his peace and lent succor.
8 It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force.
9 This succor, which came to Porthos at the moment in which he was attacked in his gastronomic hopes, inspired much gratitude in the Musketeer toward the procurator's wife.
10 Planchet and Fourreau, as pale as death, were trying to give him succor; but it was plain that all assistance was useless--all the features of the dying man were distorted with agony.
11 It is probable that the succor of the English fleet will never even arrive in sight of the place.
12 Copies were put up at the corners of the streets; and even they who had begun to open negotiations interrupted them, being resolved to await the succor so pompously announced.
13 The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities.
14 Those were the knightly days of our profession, when we only bore arms to succor the distressed, and not to fill men's lamp-feeders.
15 From the boat's fragmentary stern, Fedallah incuriously and mildly eyed him; the clinging crew, at the other drifting end, could not succor him; more than enough was it for them to look to themselves.
Example Sentence:
1 If you believe that con man has come here to succor you in your hour of need, you're an even bigger sucker than I thought.
2 He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.