The troops had heard of the advancing reinforcements, and were drooping again; when, suddenly, the cannon of the Bastille, those Spanish cannon; flamed out their powerful succor, the royal army halted and retreated, and the day was won.

And leave the couches of delight, where slumber's charm you feel; Your country calls for succor, all must the word obey, For the freedom of your fathers is in your hands to-day.

To heaven they cry for succor, and, while to heaven they pray, They call the knights they love so well to arm them for the fray.

That never succor came to me, for that were rapture high To her the angry lioness who prays that I may die!"

Give me some badge, if not that thou Mayst recognize thy knight, At least to deck him, give him strength, And succor in the fight.

The general still persisted in the exercise of his duties, despite his suffering, and he at once detailed a party to proceed toward the Monongahela with a supply of food, for the succor of the stragglers and the wounded who had been left behind,a duty which was ill fulfilled because of the cowardice of those to whom it was intrusted.

They agreed to suspend all attack for seventy days, at the end of which time, if no succor should arrive to the Moorish King, the city of Granada was to be surrendered.

They represented that they had already sufficiently performed their duty in adventuring farther from land and all possibility of succor than had ever been done before, and that they ought not to proceed on the voyage to their manifest destruction.

The Thebans again enter the Peloponnesus, but retreat before the arrival of succor sent by Dionysius to the Lacedaemonians.

" Many a time when teachers & dictionaries fail to unravel knotty paragraphs, we wish we could fly to you for succor; we even go so far as to believe you can read a German newspaper & understand it; & in moments of deep irritation I have been provoked into expressing the opinion that you are the only foreigner except God who can do that thing.

They could easily have killed all those who went to succor the wounded, but I found them extraordinarily merciful as compared with the enemy in Flanders.

He charged again, incited by a second call for succor.

Every exertion that the case admitted was made in their behalf, and, the moment the state of the lake allowed, boats were sent off, in every probable direction, to their succor.

The knowledge that thou hast had the power and the will to succor thy friends must be worth all other knowledge!"

But I fear this storm has been so sudden and unexpected, that we may not even hope for their succor.

The heart of Pierre began to chill with the decreasing; warmth of his body, and the firm old man, overwhelmed with his responsibility while his truant thoughts would unbidden recur to those whom he had left in his cottage at the foot of the mountain, gave way at last to his emotions in a paroxysm of grief, wringing his hands, weeping and calling loudly on God for succor.

Be this as it may, no reinforcements ever came: and this little handful of Americans soon found themselves hemmed in at the little town of Caborca without hope or succor.

Law is to him all exaction and no protection: instead of lightening his natural burdens, it crushes him under a multitude of artificial ones; instead of a friend to succor him, it is his deadliest foe, transfixing him at every step from the cradle to the grave.

A merciless warfare has been waged for the extermination or expulsion of the Florida Indians, because they gave succor to those poor hunted fugitivesa warfare which has cost the nation several thousand lives, and forty millions of dollars.

Stephen de Vignolles, celebrated under the name of La Hire, resolved to succor the town of Montargis, besieged by the English; and young Dunois, the bastard of Orleans, joined him.

"I come on behalf of my Lord," said she to Sire de Baudricourt, "to bid you send word to the dauphin to keep himself well in hand, and not give battle to his foes, for my Lord will presently give him succor."

Yolande gave money and took a great deal of trouble in order to promote the expedition which was to go and succor Orleans.

"In the name of God, the counsel of my Lord is wiser than yours; you thought to deceive me, and you have deceived yourselves, for I am bringing you the best succor that ever had knight, or town, or city, and that is the good will of God, and succor from the King of Heaven; not assuredly for love of me, it is from God only that it proceeds."

Let the party which hath a just cause take care how, by incredulity or injustice, it rendereth useless the divine succor so miraculously manifested, for God, without any change of counsel, changeth the upshot according to deserts."

When he returned to camp, about noon, he had made up his mind that the proper thing to do was to make himself and his companions as comfortable as possible and patiently await the return of his mate with succor.

The distant roar of this cataract had frequently been heard in the camp, when the wind came from that direction, and when the stillness of the nightbroken only by the occasional howl of wild beasts seeking their prey, or the melancholy cry of the goat-sucker[*]— succeeded to the sounds of labor or idleness that generally kept the temporary village alive by day.

Fortunately, it was a real pump with real water and a sucker in good standing, warranted to need no priming.

At the tip of each is a powerful sucker, which acts rather like those leather suckers boys sometimes play with.

Each sucker fixes itself to a stone or other object, and then the animal can draw its body along.

Each tiny sucker at once takes hold, more and more of them touch the ground as the ray is turned right side up, and at last the Starfish turns over, and, slowly but surely, glides away.

And it is hard to imagine feet more useful to the Starfish than those wonderful sucker-feet!

The tube-feet, or sucker-feet, are fixed to the shell in much the same way as the spines.

If the Urchin is on a rock he clings tightly with these sucker-feet; then, if he wishes to move away, you will see the long thin tubes stretch out and bend about.

It can be used as a sucker; and it is this which enables the Limpet to cling so firmly to its rock.

Men come here for gold, Ambitious for wealth They stickfor they can't get away, They dig, drink, and die, And then go to hell, To pay for their last sucker play ALASKA CONTENTS THE BIRTH OF THE LAND A WOMAN, A DOG, AND A WALNUT TREE WHEN THE WATER STARTS TO RUN THE THROWBACK THE MALAMUTE UNSATISFIED THE PROSPECTOR IF US FOR

Ay, if thou seek'st the ruin of my son, Thou art a tyrant and a blood-sucker.

This fish has an oval sucker on its head, by which it fixes itself to Whales, or even to the hull of a ship.

This acts as a strong sucker, much like that of the Sucking Fish (p. 43).

If the Goby wishes to stay still in one place, it presses its sucker to a stone; then it cannot be washed away by the ever-moving water.

And there's one Sarlaboys to, as arrant a blood-sucker and as notable a coward as ever drew weapon in a bawdy house, he carryes my marke about him.

If Dicke Bowyer be not writ a bountifull benefactor in hell for my good deeds in sending thither such Cannibals, I am a rabbit sucker: yet I scorne to vaunt of my deeds, too.

So Falstaff,"Hang me up by the heels for a rabbit sucker" (I Henry IV., ii. 4).

"He looks like a 'sucker' himself, but sometimes it is impossible to tell about a man till after you see him play.

He is evidently in the same class in orthography with his friend, Master Gillander, and I do not doubt that, under careful culture, he may emulate the various virtues of his friend, and become, in time, an accomplished "aig" sucker.

In like manner, the Goat-sucker is a persecuted bird, since, as its name implies, it has been thought to suck the teats of goats and other animals; whereas the form of its bill entirely precludes such an act, and it is an inoffensive bird, living upon insects.

Swing-time sucker

The best I get is, 'Clear out, you blamed sucker.

He's the rankest sucker yet.

Having no further use for a sucker or a quitter, the other two gentlemen may go to the devil, and I hereby stand adjourned.

He resembled a sucker or mullet, had a small mouth, dark color, and was rather a sluggish-looking fish.