In summer he helpedthe hay-makers, and rode on the high-piled cart, and went on picnics to Blue Mountain, and bathed in the clear brook under the willows.
When the hero came to Crete and with this intention stepped before Minos, the king was not a little pleased over the prospect of ridding the island of the bull, and he himself helped Hercules to capture the raging animal.
A little way before him he beheld the old woman whom he hadhelped over the stream, with her peacock beside her.
First they sailed northwest to the Thracian coast, where the Ciconians dwelt, who had helped the men of Troy.
And when you sit on your throne remember the old woman whom you helped over the river.
Gladly would I have helped you, O King, in your fight against the barbarians, but an unavoidable fate calls me away.
You never would have succeeded in this business, young man," said he, "if my undutiful daughter Medea had not helpedyou with her enchantments.
I have helped a good many young men through adventures that looked difficult enough beforehand.
There the thanes met him with great rejoicings, and some quickly helped him to undo his armor, while others prepared to carry the great head of Grendel back to Heorot.
To say the truth, he had a singular idea that Quicksilver was furnished with a pair of winged shoes, which, of course, helped him along marvelously.
But the staff helped Perseus along so bravely that he no longer felt the slightest weariness.
They came to assist their master, who, when he was helped out of the carriage, proved to be a man with a haggard, distressed face, and a skeleton body wrapped in furs.
She was a motherly young person, and when people fell down and scraped their knees, she ran and helped them up and patted them, or found in her pocket a bonbon or some other article of a soothing nature.
But you were there--you helped get us out of the difficulty.
If you helped rebuild Saint Peter's, you participated in all the masses said there for the repose of the dead.
Tilton became one of the most zealous workers in Plymouth Church: he attended every service, took part in the Wednesday evening prayer-meeting, helped take up the collection, and was a constant recruiting force.
And be it said to his honor, he usually gave due credit, and in various ways helpedthe cause of Plymouth Church by booming the reputation of its pastor.
Whether Greek or Latin ever helped any man to become a better thinker is a mooted question, but the practise of talking off in your own tongue a page of a foreign language is a mighty good way to lubricate your English.
And I have no doubt that wherever he went he helped hold good the precedent that preachers' boys are not especially angelic.
I helped them to marry, and in spite of marriage they helped each other to be happy.
So all the next they were shaping and sharpening the knives with the best tools they had; and some armourers, who happened to belong to their yard, helped them.
She helped her chum fix the dog, but they were forced to drag him under the porch by main force, for he was reluctant to leave them.
Driving the roadster down a side street, he found the back entrance and helped the girls to alight.
Doris set her suitcase down and helped her chum search for the things she had lost.
With a scowl directed at the back of the retreating Cousin Ronald, Dave opened the gate for the girls and helped them into the taxi.
We'd have been here sooner but Marshmallow had so much food to pack, you know," Dave told the girls as he helped them into the car.
Dave helped the girls to alight and paid the driver.
He charmed all those who met him, helped many a stranded war worker, and was superb when he unveiled a monument.
Constant repetition impressed the neutrals and Germany itself, and helped to create a bloody background in spite of the denials from Nauen (the German wireless) which tried vainly to destroy the bad effect of this perpetual repetition.
I helped to do this, and directly I touched him I felt that he was stone cold, and a further examination showed he must have been dead some hours.
Lee, the natives of Moreton Bay entreated the seamen not to shoot their tame porpoises, which helpedthem in their fishing.
The Winged Monkeys had also helpedher in doing this.
Dorothy helped him over the fence, and they started along the path of yellow brick for the Emerald City.
Then she went back to the house, and having helpedherself and Toto to a good drink of the cool, clear water, she set about making ready for the journey to the City of Emeralds.
It was hard work, although he was so big; but by and by they were drawn out of the current, and then Dorothy took the Tin Woodman's long pole and helped push the raft to the land.
Then Dorothy and the Lion got up, and the girl helped the Tin Woodman put the straw back into the Scarecrow again, until he was as good as ever.
I think I told you, my father helped me to publish my early books--while a splendid poet like Arnold actually could not afford to write the poetry we wanted of him.
The white carter 'couldn't bear with niggers,' and though he did his work well and faithfully, he helped to demoralize the place and loosen discipline.
There were none of the difficulties and delays usually seen in similar cases: all worked and helped to accomplish the end.
Clementina, almost as anxious to leave it as she, helped her down to the hall.
I rather like Richford; he gives me little tips, and he has helped me over my bridge account more than once.
The brandy came before the steak, and Richford helped himself liberally to the liquid.
He crossed over to the table and opened a bottle of champagne to which he helped himself liberally.
A blow full in the face would have laid her senseless at his feet, then he could have helped himself to that priceless telegram.
I think I could not have helped feeling the same, Ready, under such circumstances," replied William.
They soon had more cut out than he could use, and then they dragged away the tops and branches, and piled them at a distance on the ground, to use as winter fuel, while Mr Seagrave helped Ready in fixing up the palisades.
I helped my dog to a good supper of venison, and was not long in satisfying the demands of my own appetite.
They disposed of their burden, and asking for whisky, helped themselves freely to it.
We did so, and I helpedmyself to some refreshment.
The Prince and Princess helpedher into the carriage themselves, and wished her good luck.
It was inferences from such communicative papers, with other interpretations of omens and signs of the times, that helped prepare the government for the alliance of 1778.
Vigo helped Clark by cashing his drafts, and the story of a consequent suit for recovery of the money, which did not end till 1876 in the U.
I therefore shut myself in with a right honorable tailor, who helped me make a mattress in which we sewed every one of them.
There had been an intimation in Graydon's Memoirs that Howe had been helped by some kind of faithlessness in the American ranks.
By Jove, I've come to the place when to settle down and live quietly is the best thing I can do," he concluded, as he helped himself to marmalade.
Oh, my intuitions are helped out by Gerty's observation," she laughed in response.
Then as they drew up presently before the little gate, Adams helped her out and along the path into the house.
I thought then that my life was over," she said, "but to-day I have put my foot upon my old grief and it has helped me to spring upward.
I have so far as I am aware never injured either in my life, nor by any act of mine have I helped to make my wife what she is to-day--one with that creature in the street and with her kind.
Trent yielded the point as he helped himself to the cakes brought in by an old negro servant.
Undoubtedly Martin Conwell was one of the men who had helpedhim to freedom.
But as we gazed out that dark night, we saw that it was a white man with father and who helped unhitch the horses and put them in the barn.
Not only has it proved most successful in its work, but it has helped the College to meet expenses.
I remember well a man up in my native hills, a poor man, who for twenty years was helped by the town in his poverty, who owned a wide-spreading maple tree that covered the poor man's cottage like a benediction from on high.
These fines helped to pay the current expenses of the chorus.
The other man who so helped Russell in his younger days was the Rev.
One of these slaves thus helped to freedom is now Rev.
This is only one of a great many ways in which that practical preacher helped his poor, struggling parishioners by using the Conwell method.
Writing from London several years later, Mr. Conwell voiced in words what had been in his mind when the church was planned: "I heard a sermon which helped me greatly.
All these sacrifices helped to endear the place to those who wove their hopes and prayers about it.
Some Instances of How His Lectures Have Helped People.
Maps and pictures helped to materialize the journey.
It was a loving little circle, one that riveted sure and fast the ties of family affection and which helped one boy at her knee in after life to enter with such sure sympathy into the plain, simple lives of the humblest people he met.
Those whom he helpedknew these insinuations to be untrue.
The disciplined judgment, the knowledge of men, the forethought and skill of these workers who were educated at the school of practical business life, helped most.
His iron constitution, for one thing, that seemed capable of standing any strain, helped him.
He was Victor's father; he had held, as a little baby, the man she loved; he had worked for him and helped to make him what he was.
An empty carriage, if there is one, please," she asked the guard, and he opened a door and helped her into a still unlit compartment.
Joyselle asked her, as Burton helped him take off his coat.
I got a great fright at dinner," said Mabel after a pause; "but you helped me out of it as usual.
Annie helped herself to the excellent breakfast provided by Mrs Shelf.
He hadhelped her with funds so that her wicked action with regard to Dawson's cheque would never now be discovered.
Being importuned by sundry little peckings at her beak, she opened it, and the young one, thrusting in its own, helped himself as though her throat were a platter.
The man was known to everyone as "Dick o' the Cow," the reason probably being that his wife helped to eke out his scanty wages by keeping three cows, and selling their milk to the honest burghers of Carlisle.
The cost of intervention fell heavily on those upon whom it was bestowed, but it eventually helped to ruin Rome itself; for neglect of one's own affairs is the inevitable consequence of interfering with the affairs of one's neighbours.
By a bargain with the Consuls he obtained their support; for he promised that if they helped him to the tribuneship, he would assist them in helping themselves to a rich province at the close of their year of office.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "helped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
