36 Verbs to Use for the Word rescues

When the tidings of this tragedy was brought into the settlement, Jacob was overwhelmed with grief, as might have been expected, and even my uncle had great difficulty in preventing the distressed lad from rushing into the wilderness with the poor hope that he might be able, single-handed, to effect his father's rescue.

This girl of three and twenty, never very robust, had marvellous strength of will; and, her mind being set on attempting the rescue, she prevailed over both her father's judgment and her mother's entreaties; and into that awful sea the boat was at length launched.

To boldly fall upon the sentry was risky, for the slightest noise would bring rescue from the front of the bluff.

He thought how anxious Bachelor Billy would be about him, and how he would make every effort to accomplish his rescue.

O King and master, if, indeed, I am thy loved one still, As in those days when I was first upon Alhambra's hill, Send rescue for thy darling, or fear her love may fade, For love that needs the sunlight must wither in the shade.

The force may be wanted sometimes to make the arrest, and also sometimes to protect the officer after it is made, and to prevent a rescue.

He felt my touch and sprang to his feet, clutching me by the shoulder as a man clutching rescue.

He had lifted the Doctor waist-high from the water before the other helpers sprang on board and completed the rescue.

On this journey I found that what I had heard concerning the rescue of my Bertha had had a greater effect upon me than I had supposed.

30. contains her rescue from Passamonte.

Then, too, Gisèle is always doing and telling me things for my own goodIn fine, my lads, my wife takes such a flattering interest in all my concerns that the one way out for any peace-loving magician was to contrive her rescue from my clutches," said Miramon, fretfully.

Lord Thomas was therefore scarcely arrived, before she set open the flood gates of her eloquence, in describing the rescue, and the unrivalled beauty of the lady under her roof.

The talking ceased, but still they were not quiet: instead, as generally happens in such a case, what with groaning over his fate and whispering one to another, in spite of their not uttering a single word they gave the impression that they desired the rescue of the cavalry commander.

And only the skill and good sense of the girls, and the knowledge that they could swim if they happened to fall into the water, enabled the rescue to be made.

She looked pale and dejected, and her head rested against the tree stem, but her eyes kept roving the darkness in every direction as if she expected rescue.

When she being guarded round about with friends, Like a faire Iland hem'd with Rocks and Seas, What rescue shall I find? Queen.

He recalled his old dreams of saving her from Van Degenismit was not thus that he had imagined the rescue.

We will deny none of her freinds to see her; They can intend noe rescue.

The Onondaga was still following in the hope of making a rescue, and he would follow as long as Robert was living.

Shall I owe my rescue to the wave of pain?

He had informed Butler's agent; he had watched day and night; had given the Unionists plans of the grounds; was now periling his own rescue to bring the arch-traitor to his doom.

But Mary was not to be put off in this fashion, and she went on, her voice fluttering a little because of the emotion she was keeping down with a resolute hand: "I know it was your brother who went out on the swamp and put the rope round my father, but I also know that it was really you who planned the rescue and pulled my father out.

He went down the track a bit ago on a hand-car, playing rescue a princess with one of the girls at the picnic," The section boss sprang up with an exclamation of alarm.

She promised no rescue by supernatural means, but only through natural forces.

At first she hoped it might prove a rescue; but she was quickly undeceived.

36 Verbs to Use for the Word  rescues