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Example sentences for "aid him"

  • These he retained to aid him to discover the secret of the philosopher's stone by a bolder method.

  • Law is calling in Hercules to aid him in supporting the globe.

  • He was touched with pity for the hard fate, and admiration for the intrepidity of Seton; and determined, if possible, to aid him in escaping from the clutch of his oppressor.

  • Aid him--and you know him well--large are his rewards to service and love!

  • Within this country, to defend it, we will serve our Count; but to aid him to conquer another man's country, no!

  • For the Snake, with the Tiger to aid him, we are no match.

  • The brutal savages watched with pleasure his frantic struggles to regain a footing, but without offering to aid him.

  • They were jealous of the growing power of the Medes and Persians, and had made a league with Croesus, promising to aid him in the war.

  • And Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent to the king that he should send him an army to aid him, and he would deliver him the country, and their cities, and tributes.

  • And Phul, king of the Assyrians, came into the land, and Manahem gave Phul a thousand talents of silver to aid him and to establish him in the kingdom.

  • And Simon sent to him two thousand chosen men to aid him, silver also, and gold, and abundance of furniture.

  • If the emperor enters into treaties with France and the pope without consulting us, it is his concern and not ours, and we are not bound to aid him to fulfill his agreement.

  • His sons-in-law, the Electors of Palatine and of Saxony, ventured not to aid him in an emergence when defeat seemed almost certain, and where all who shared in the defeat would be utterly ruined.

  • It was Pope, and Swift to aid him, who established among us the Grub Street tradition.

  • The Duke of Burgundy had the command this year, having the Duke of Berry with him, and the famous Mareschal Vendosme and the Duke of Matignon to aid him in the campaign.

  • This event caused great grief to Dmitri, for he had relied upon the coöperation of the warlike Lithuanians to aid him to repel the Mogols.

  • Indeed, they were undisputed sovereigns of their principalities, bound only to recognize the superior rank of the grand prince, and to aid him, when called upon, as allies.

  • He had applied to his brother-in-law, the Emperor of Germany, for foreign troops to aid him.

  • When Joseph was given the crown of Spain he requested his brother to send Massena to aid him in his new sphere, but the Emperor, full of mistrust, refused, while the Marshal himself had no great desire to serve in Spain.

  • To aid him in his studies he collected a travelling library of six hundred volumes which accompanied him in all his later campaigns.

  • They were willing also to obey the future Emperor's commands, and to aid him socially by entertaining on a lavish scale, and their residence in Paris, the Hotel Thelusson, became the centre of gorgeous entertainments.

  • Scarcely was this reorganisation completed when Soult, who had been defeated at Albuera, called on Marmont to aid him in saving Badajoz.

  • His scheme was favorably entertained by Congress, and Washington, by a letter dated July 10th, was instructed to aid him in carrying it into effect.

  • The object of the express was to ask a reinforcement of regulars to aid him in capturing a large convoy of clothing, ammunition and stores, on its way to the garrison, and which would pass Wateree Ferry, about a mile from Camden.

  • This so much enraged the duke that he at first intended to sally out and call upon the populace of Paris to aid him to rescue the prisoners.

  • Stopping, as it happened, for fresh stores in the south of Italy, they were at once invited by the Prince of Salerno to aid him in his fight against the Mohammedans, who were every day encroaching more upon the Greek possessions there.

  • Roman Church and strengthen the authority of the papacy; and as he had a devout woman, the Countess Matilda of Tuscany, to aid him in Italy, so he had as his firm ally in Spain the pious Queen Constance, daughter of King Robert of France.

  • A force of French and Burgundians came to aid him, and an army crossed the Border, but it did nothing, as the rising which had been planned, and was to have been made at the same time in the north of England, did not take place.

  • Meanwhile Duncan, the son of Malcolm and Ingebiorg, his first wife, prayed William of England to aid him in recovering his father's kingdom, which he promised to hold as an English fief.

  • Sidenote: Charles summons Parliament once more, to aid him in fighting the Scotch Presbyterians, 1640.

  • It is literally true that France will perform impossibilities in order to aid him in this.

  • For example, Thiebault could not expect Jocelyn to aid him in war against the duke of Burgundy, for Jocelyn is pledged to fidelity to that duke.

  • He would avail himself of every opportunity to procure co-workers in his good designs, to aid him in his strivings after wisdom that he might attain to what he aimed at.

  • Among other things, he told him that he was ready to aid him in conquering the Holy Land and in delivering Jerusalem out of the hands of the Saracens.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aid him; aid the; alive again; always liked; but really; common enough; inseparable from; material object; not wholly; out the; partial vacuum; race suicide; reminded himself; rural areas; said here; second trial; severe punishment; then returned; thick coat; this case; unknown artist; when asked; would have been impossible