All 3 Uses of
succor
in
Moby Dick
- The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- Those were the knightly days of our profession, when we only bore arms to succor the distressed, and not to fill men's lamp-feeders.†
Chpt 82-84
- From the boat's fragmentary stern, Fedallah incuriously and mildly eyed him; the clinging crew, at the other drifting end, could not succor him; more than enough was it for them to look to themselves.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(succor) help given when it is needed; or the act of giving such help