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.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUCCOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
2  When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
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...
4  You struggle in vain; no more human succor is possible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER
5  It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a traitor in order to succor it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
6  Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW
7  He held his peace and lent succor.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
8  It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
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.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
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.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 42 THE ANJOU WINE
11  It is probable that the succor of the English fleet will never even arrive in sight of the place.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
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.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 51 OFFICER
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
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.