secours

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For the secours, fifty million dollars worth of gifts in money, food and clothing were collected by the Commission from the charitable people of America and Great Britain.

From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)

They asked me, several times, if I was suffering, and offered to go on to the poste de secours if I wanted them to.

From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by Hall, James Norman

L'�ternel est notre recours; Nous obtenons par son secours, Plus d'une d�liverance.

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel

La le long de ses lits ou gemit le malheur, Victimes des secours plus que de la douleur, L'ignorance en courant fait sa ronde homicide, L'indifference observe et le hazard decide.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

There is no sound in the poste de secours.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John