Sentence examples for succour and from inspiring English sources

Why do we look to the histories for succour and sustenance?

The only source of succour and sanctuary is (a recurring Kennen theme, this) the family.

While Shields takes refuge in piety, Davoren refuses such succour, and doesn't seem certain of his vocation as a poet.

This is a man who walked the Pennine Way without money and found succour and willing audiences along the way.

Everyone knows that the Inter- Services Intelligence – their leaders appear to be interchangeable with the regular army – continue to succour and guard and lead the Afghan Taliban.

Longford was the only person to visit this dying man, a gesture repeated in countless episodes that never made headlines but which brought succour and relief.

The ground behind will be inscribed with an 1857 quote from Sir William Howard Russell, then war correspondent of the Times: "I trust that England will not forget one who nursed the sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead".

The book was dedicated to Major-General Lord Rokeby, commander of the First Division; and William Howard Russell wrote as a preface, "I have witnessed her devotion and her courage ... and I trust that England will never forget one who has nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead".

Once a conflict starts, the parties are entitled to kill combatants (even those not engaged in fighting), but they must spare and succour non-combatants and wounded fighters.

In truth Norman St John-Stevas, who died on March 2nd, aged 82, drew delight and succour from pageantry and tradition as others take warmth from the sun.An important memory dated back to his teenage years, when the future academic, journalist and Conservative politician watched the wedding procession of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

They poisoned the minds of vulnerable people and their warped and twisted propaganda offered support and succour to a murderous and barbaric terrorist organisation.