Some thought that the expedition was intended not for Guiana but for a sudden raid on Genoa; others thought that Ralegh was going to succour the Huguenots at the King's wish.
He proceeds to point out the length and narrowness of Cornwall, and the extreme difficulty of sending succour to Plymouth.
For being in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin, he himself having suffered, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Did none attempt, before he fell, To succour one they loved so well?
While sages deem Solanum sent To succour Homo's hungry maw, We'll prize it for development Of swelling Peronospora.
Vainly for succour Nassan calls, Know, Zillah, that thy Nassan falls; But prowling wolf and fox may joy, To quarry on thy Arab boy.
Lady Constance, "and your tardy succourmay come too late.
Gripes, laden with wine, and with them men of warre the which came vnder shadow of those wines, because the gouernours of Candie durst let none of their men goe to the succour of Rhodes for feare of the Turke.
I cannot escape it, but have need to flee unto Thee, that Thou mayest succour me and turn it unto me for good.
Succour me, O Eternal Truth, that no vanity may move me.
For the imaginations of man's heart are evil from his youth,(4) and except divine medicine succour him, man slideth away continually unto the worse.
Of the fight that took place between these soldiers and the peasants who went to succour the nuns?
They had hoped that succour would have waited them, had the ocean been reached.
Giles gave this place of succour the name of Victoria Springs, and rested there nine days.
The only chance of affording succour to the missing men, left to Landsborough, was the remote one of accidentally coming upon them.
Advancing at the double the rats ran to the succour of their good little friend; but the cat swore, and stalked away in front of the enemy, having no intention of surrendering her prey.
Orleans was convinced, soon after his arrival, that the enemy was approaching to succour Turin, he suggested that they should be opposed as they attempted the passage of the Dora.
To needful succour all the good will run, And Jove assert the godhead of his son.
That they should bring succour and aid him; that they might also revenge the injuries done to them of old, their legions so often slaughtered, their land taken from them.
And whilst the Alban army shouts out to the Curiatii to succour their brother, Horatius, victorious in having slain his antagonist, was now proceeding to a second attack.
For as the Capenatians and Faliscians had suddenly come with succour [to the Veientians], they had to fight against three armies on different sides in the same manner as formerly, through the whole extent of their works.
The only hope was, if succour could be brought from the greater camp, that the different legions should fight, some against the Capenatians and Faliscians, others against the sallies of the townsmen.
You know not; heaven may give you succour yet; You see it sends me to you.
The love that survives has strangled craving; it lives because it lives to nourish and succourlike the heavens.
But the largeness of the amount, and the channel selected for the payment, precluded the notion that any single person had come to succour him in his imminent need, and, as it chanced, mine.
As every other public office and potency fell, the Church raised an undaunted front, and took the place at once of authority and of succour among the crushed and downtrodden people.
Finding no succour anywhere, I flung myself at the feet of Jesus, bathing them with tears, drying them with the hair of my head.
The fugitives, thus deprived of all hopes of succour or subsistence, sent deputies to the conqueror, offering to surrender at discretion.
The maritime cities of Philip's allies were in terror and confusion; but the inland places were so secure against the Roman arms, that Philip ravaged the country of the Aetolians, while they in vain implored succour from those arms.
All of these stating the dangers which threatened their possessions, both by land and sea, entreated succour from the king.
The Boians demanded, that all, in conjunction, should carry succour to those who were attacked; while the Insubrians positively refused to leave their country defenceless.
An alarm had been excited in the camp, and the troops were hastening to go and succour the consuls, when they saw one of the consuls and the son of the other wounded, and the scanty remains of this unfortunate expedition returning to the camp.
They came to implore their succour against Alexander the Great, who was upon the point of taking their city, which he had long besieged.
And, indeed, the Syracusans, who had been besieged for some time by the Carthaginians, had sent pressingly for succour to Pyrrhus.
This succour was very seasonable, and compelled Hannibal to sound a retreat.
Be this as it may, their passage into Sicily, and the succour they gave to the inhabitants of Messina, may be said to have been the first step by which they ascended to that height of glory and grandeur which they afterwards attained.
During the attack on a Boer laager on the 16th, Trooper Drysdale bravely rushed to the succour of Sergeant Weinecke under a close and heavy fire and carried him off to a place of safety.
The anxiety of all when succour came was that their comrades should be attended to first.
The surgeons had been left behind on the Modder, and the offer of Lord Roberts of medicine and succour had been refused.
The capture of the kopje was an excellent move, as it was a useful position whence to watch for and intercept reinforcements that might be coming from Ladysmith or elsewhere to the succour of the doomed.
But the cost of splendid succour was dearly and almost instantaneously paid.
Near here it was rumoured that such Boers as had failed to come to the succour of Cronje had flocked.
Wellington, as we shall see, held his own on that 16th of June, but was quite unable to come up in succour of Blucher when the expected victory of that general turned to a defeat.
Nevertheless, there are always two boats ready to succour him.
When ye saw two knights leading me away, beating me, ye left me for to succour a gentlewoman, and suffered me to remain in peril of death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "succour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
