secours

Example Sentences

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Once, when she was sitting at her work opposite to him, she heard him say, in a low voice, "Notre Dame de bon secours."

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Fullerton, Georgiana

"Mon Dieu!—ces demoiselles dans les eaux!—au secours!—au secours!"

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

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

Changeons propos, c'est trop chant� d'amours, Ce sont clamours, chantons de la Serpette, Tous vignerons ont � elle recours, C'est leur secours pour tailler la vignette.

From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Belloc, Hilaire

She thought of the days in Paris when she had so successfully assumed the garb of the sœur de bon secours, and kept nightly vigils beside the bed of Maurice.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt