secours

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There was the phase of ravitaillement, the constant provisioning of the whole land; and the phase of secours, the special care of the destitute and the ill and the children.

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

All this created an enormous sum for the secours, which was the real "relief," as benevolence.

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

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

He shook like a leaf when her voice rang out: 'Au secours!

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox

Mon plus cher ami m’abandonne, En vain j’implore son secours, Et la calomnie empoisonne.

From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Samber, Robert