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Example sentences for "succors"

Lexicographically close words:
succinctly; succinic; succor; succored; succoring; succory; succotash; succour; succoured; succouring
  1. Succors to themselves and supplies of arms they expected from France, in consequence of a promise made them by Cardinal Richelieu.

  2. Conceiving hopes from the present distresses of Ireland, they resolved to make an advantageous bargain for the succors with which they should supply their neighboring nation.

  3. They even intercepted some small succors sent thither by the king.

  4. And it is reported he is at Goto, staying for more succors which are to com from Miaco, and thought they mean to goe for Lequea, to look for Fidaia Samme.

  5. As soon as the succors had arrived, he retired to his tent, assumed the dress and arms of a private soldier, and gave the signal of a battle.

  6. Narses awaited the charge; and it was delayed by Totila till he had received his last succors of two thousand Goths.

  7. In this manner America provided herself with arms and ammunition, of which she was destitute; I do not speak of the succors of money and other kinds which we have given her, the whole ostensibly on the score of trade.

  8. It has continued to increase daily to greater estate, until now it is of the utmost importance in the city, because of the many needs that it succors and relieves, and the charitable works that it undertakes.

  9. He persuaded the people to lay aside their enmity against these cities, to forget the offenses committed by them in the Confederate War, and to send them such succors as eventually saved and secured them.

  10. Then, under pretense of aiding their confederates, they sent succors upon all occasions to those who were oppressed by the Syracusans, preparing the way for sending over a greater force.

  11. Some time after this, the Lacedaemonians sent a second time to desire succors of the Athenians against the Messenians and Helots, who had seized upon Ithome.

  12. Many, indeed, think this strict and entire affection is to be dated from the battle at Mantinea, where they both fought, being part of the succors that were sent from Thebes to the Lacedaemonians, their then friends and allies.

  13. In every articulation, in every gland, in every passage, there is danger of death; but there are also as many succors as there are dangers.

  14. They treat of succors and benefits, as interpreters and ambassadors.

  15. A council of regency was appointed, abundant succors in men and money voted, and the Chancellor Oxenstiern, a man of commanding civil and military talents, was intrusted with the sole conduct of the war.

  16. If the aids hitherto granted by diets have produced nothing but disgrace and dishonor, I am not to blame, but the States who acted so scandalously in granting their succors with so much reluctance and delay.

  17. And even if we were to vote the succors which are now asked of us, we should only be involved in embarrassment and disgrace, as we have been by the previous enterprises of the emperor.

  18. Matthias, thinking that a war with the infidel would be popular, summoned a diet and solicited succors to drive the Turks from Moldavia and Wallachia, where they had recently established themselves.

  19. If Austria has derived useful succors from England, she has purchased those succors with the blood and ruin of her subjects; while England has been opening to herself new sources of wealth and power.

  20. With general acclaim they approved of his plan, voted him all the succors he required, and enthusiastically offered their own fortunes and lives to his service.

  21. He accordingly assembled a diet at Frankfort and demanded succors to oppose the threatened invasion on the north.

  22. The public concerns of the state often called on the saint to afford the spiritual succors of his zeal and charity.

  23. The city of Lyons was most convenient for the meeting of those princes whose succors were principally expected for the holy war; and was most unexceptionable, because at that time it acknowledged no other sovereign than its archbishop.

  24. She comes also to ask the succors of divine grace.

  25. During the exile of St. Thomas of Canterbury, he and the other superiors of his Order were accused of having sent him succors abroad.

  26. Lyons, with the view of extinguishing the Greek schism, and raising succors to defend the holy land against the Saracens.

  27. He refuses also to his friends and to the republic of mankind, the comfort and succors which they are entitled in justice or charity to receive from him.

  28. For his hope was based upon the Catholic principle, that God, who destined him for an eternal kingdom, would not refuse the succors necessary to attain it.

  29. And she, like a mother who quickly succors her pale and breathless son with her voice, which is wont to reassure him, said to me, 11 Knowest thou not, that thou art in Heaven?

  30. Thy benignity not only succors him who asks, but oftentimes freely foreruns the asking.

  31. More than once, in time of peace, the public coffers of the State have been obliged to furnish to the Province of Zealand, the succors which she could not find at home, without reducing her subjects to the most horrible distress.

  32. The Seven Provinces have resolved to refuse the succors demanded by Great Britain; to grant convoys; and to accept the invitation of Russia.

  33. The respective States of the seven Provinces have all been of opinion, first; to excuse themselves from giving the succors demanded.

  34. Thus the masters of Swedish ships are advertised by these presents, and it is even enjoined upon them not to carry any succors into the places or ports, which may be blocked by one or another of the powers now at war.

  35. The English, in the course of the last war, derived all their triumphs, both upon the Continent of America and the Islands, from the succors they received from their Colonies.

  36. Salcedo, Diego de, arrives at Jamaica with succors from Ovando.

  37. He also obtained succors from the Archbishop of Salzburg, the bishops of Passau, Ratisbon, and the neighboring prelates and princes, and collected levies from Austria and Styria for the protection of Vienna.

  38. Under Henry III the Parliament of England began, 1250, to consider that these extraordinary succors ought at least to relieve the rest of the nation.

  39. Then did the Jews hinder their succors from the wall, and fought with those that endeavored to quench the fire, without any regard to the danger their bodies were in.

  40. Nay, things looked as though the entire legion would have been in danger, unless Titus had been informed of the case they were in, and had sent them succors immediately.

  41. He proposed that Joutel should this time be of the party; and should proceed from Quebec to France, with his brother Cavelier, to solicit succors for the colony, while he himself returned to Texas.

  42. It is in vain that we hope to derive succors from religion if we despise and refuse what nature offers us.

  43. Many persons also require phantoms to make them religious, and they find these succors in the dogmas of priestcraft.

  44. He is now so accustomed to that Divine Presence, that he receives from it continual succors upon all occasions.

  45. Maitland of Lidington, therefore, and Robert Melvil, were secretly despatched by the congregation to solicit succors from Elizabeth.

  46. That you recrossed it to solicit naval and military succors from the throne of France, and returned with triumphant success?

  47. The British troops were computed to be about seven thousand, and their commander had been strengthened in his situation by fortifications, hoping to defend himself till he might receive succors from New-York.


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