3579 examples of rescuing in sentences

I was engaged as an agent of the detective force of the United States, with the special duty of rescuing Wesley Boone from captivity.

Therefore it was, according to the belief of the soldier, that General Herkimer would have little or no weight with Brant so far as rescuing Peter Sitz was concerned, if there chanced at the moment to be Tories near at hand to whisper in his ear.

All his thoughts were centred upon the one idea of rescuing his father while there was yet time, and the lad waited eagerly for the conference between the leaders regarding the prisoner to be begun, heeding the remainder of the howling gang hardly more than did Sergeant Corney.

It pleased Jacob that we were to return to that portion of the country where we would be near Brant's forces, for he still cherished the hope of being able to aid in the rescuing of his father, if peradventure

" "But we stand as much chance of rescuing my father as we do of gettin' speech with Colonel Gansevoort, an' surely you will not leave a friend to be tortured to death?"

Did you come for no other purpose than to find me?" "Nothin' more," I said, not minded to let him know that if he could show any reasonable chance of rescuing

We had plenty to think about, for rescuing an opium-fiend is no easy job, and reclaiming him afterwards is as hard again.

Now then, I think it barely possible that instead of our rescuing The Babe, he will rescue us.

The uproar, however, attracted the notice of a few neighbors, who put themselves to the trouble of rescuing the little heretic, and of conveying him to Pearson's door.

It looks like a deep-laid plan to rob my aged and honored client of the credit to which he is entitled for rescuing this boy at the risk of his life, for caring for him through poverty and disease, for finding him when his own mother had given him up for dead, and restoring him to the bosom of his family.

Why, it was at this very door that the little rescuing party had turned off to go up into the easterly tier of chambers.

What took place between them I cannot ascertain, but I have learned that afterward, while the rescuing party were descending into the mine, your husband recognized Ralph in a way that those who saw and heard him could not at the time understand.

To be frank with you, I think the chances are against rescuing the boy alive.

From away back in the mine the echoing shouts of the rescuing party came faintly to his ears.

How brave was he in rescuing his kinsman from the hands of conquering kings!

"MY DEAR LADY, I HAVE THE HAPPINESS OF RESCUING YOU FROM A GREAT PERIL.

In November of that year the following paragraph appeared in the Toulon paper: "Yesterday, a convict, on his return from rescuing a sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned.

Several times, however, the rescuing party had to knock down good form and trample gentle breeding under foot to reach the spot in time.

She beheld the noon return of the crew much as a shipwrecked castaway on a desert shore might behold a rescuing sail, and she told Charlie that she intended to go into the woods that afternoon and watch them work.

Meares with some helpers had constantly to be rescuing these wretched creatures from hanging, and trying to find them better shelter, an almost hopeless task.

Benecke has devoted a special "Excursus" to this play (203-205), in which he justly remarks that readers of Greek literature "need hardly be reminded of how utterly foreign to the Greek of Euripides's day is the conception of the 'galante Ritter' setting out in search of ladies that want rescuing."

The rescuing party then returned in triumph to the fort.

Still, the English did not give up the hope of rescuing some unfortunate wretch, clinging to a spar, or supporting himself by supernatural efforts, for several hours.

" It is hardly necessary to mention, that the fight here referred to took place between the parliamentary forces under Fairfax, and a large body of Kentish gentlemen, who had risen, with their dependants, in the hope of rescuing the king from the hands of the army.

Many whom I then accused of being too lightly affected by the prospect of exile, might be animated by the hope of personally contributing to the establishment of peace and order, and rescuing their country from the banditti who were oppressing it; and it is not surprising that such objects should dazzle the imagination and deceive the judgment in the choice of measures by which they were to be obtained.

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