A person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble

Usage examples of samaritan.

Samaritan and telling you that you have an obsessed, anti-Catholic, woman-hating criminal in Chickasaw County.

Of course, the Good Samaritan had dropped his garrote down a storm drain by the time the police arrived.

Samaritan, he interprets the host as the Spirit and the two denarii as the Father and Son.

No monuments of Hebrew writing exist which are not posterior even to the Christian era, with the exception of those on the coins of the Maccabees, which are in the ancient or what is termed the Samaritan forms of the Hebrew letters.

Good Samaritan Hospital before being booked into the Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of vehicular homicide.

The least Forrest could do for the muttonhead was play Good Samaritan with some good advice.

The good Samaritans were in a Toyota Previa, man and woman in the front, two kids in the back.

It was, he thought, the rarest of Samaritans, who had no interest in the private life of its wounded wayfarer.

The Samaritan Pentateuch is very ancient, as is proved by the criticisms of Talmudic writers.

They are still Dacians and Samaritans at dinner, in war, and in friendship, as they call it, but which is often a burden hardly to be borne.

Biblical turn of the conversation that her guardian was strongly moved, Venetia applied herself for the next twenty minutes to the task of soothing her agitation, pointing out to her that they had more reason to liken Damerel to the Good Samaritan than to the wicked, and coaxing her to accept her own determination to go to Aubrey as something as harmless as it was inevitable.

We were two good little Samaritans, lifting out of the ditch the man fallen among thieves.

Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed.

The Samaritans were finally subdued by the regular forces of the East: twenty thousand were slain, twenty thousand were sold by the Arabs to the infidels of Persia and India, and the remains of that unhappy nation atoned for the crime of treason by the sin of hypocrisy.

Old John Baggs, the city's best known miser, had suffered a murderous assault in his little cottage upon the outskirts of town, and was even now lying at the point of death in The Samaritan Hospital.