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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rescue
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rescue attempt
▪ Two firefighters were hurt in the rescue attempt.
a rescue plan (=a plan for saving a company, economy etc)
▪ Which rescue plan offers the company the best prospects of survival?
a rescue team
▪ He was in the water for two hours before a rescue team arrived.
a research/rescue/health etc worker
▪ Rescue workers searched the rubble all night looking for survivors.
mountain rescue (=people who help people who are in difficulty on a mountain)
▪ Mountain rescue teams were called out to search for the missing climbers.
rescue sb/sth from obscurity (=to stop someone or something from being forgotten)
▪ He was rescued from obscurity by Alder's brilliant biography in 1985.
rescue/diplomatic/fact-finding etc mission
▪ a group of US congressmen on a fact-finding mission to Northern Ireland
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ General Lekhanya said he shot the man in an attempt to rescue a woman in distress.
▪ Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.
▪ But increasingly Waite had become involved in his attempts to rescue hostages held in the Middle East.
▪ This study is not an attempt to rescue from oblivion a poet whom critical attention has neglected.
▪ The father continued the suicide attempt but he was rescued by police.
▪ The Falangists had made a number of attempts to rescue Primo de Rivera from prison, all of which had failed.
▪ The first attempt to rescue Nature's diversity began in 1828.
child
▪ She and her husband rescued their three children from their blazing home with seconds to spare early yesterday.
▪ He tried to rescue the other five children, but the flames forced him back.
▪ They later stormed the house and rescued the child - but missed their prey.
▪ It is her aim to rescue children from the bleak existences of orphanages and hospitals.
▪ But Zeus rescued her unborn child, sewed it up in his own thigh, and brought it forth afterwards.
economy
▪ It is likely to be the last chance to rescue the economy from chaos.
friend
▪ He lay on the track for five minutes before being rescued by two friends who were also out riding.
girl
▪ Hercules agreed to rescue the girl if her father would give him the horses Zeus had given his grandfather.
hostage
▪ But increasingly Waite had become involved in his attempts to rescue hostages held in the Middle East.
▪ Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.
▪ President Carter displayed considerable restraint in the crisis until an attempt was made in April 1980 to rescue the hostages by force.
▪ Carter ordered the Pentagon to prepare a contingency plan for military action to rescue the hostages.
man
▪ They rescued the man who later died.
▪ In Antrim police had to rescue a man from a hostile crowd when he was pulled from his car.
▪ In eight or nine rounds the referee should be stepping in to rescue the younger man, unless he is knocked out.
▪ A doctor attempted to rescue the men and was killed by the fumes.
mission
▪ Their mission is to rescue friendly foreigners from unfriendly territory.
woman
▪ General Lekhanya said he shot the man in an attempt to rescue a woman in distress.
▪ It was a deliberate lie on the part of regulationists to accuse repealers of having no desire to rescue women from prostitution.
▪ I once had a thank you for rescuing a woman who had a baby in Woodstock.
▪ Their task was to rescue a seriously injured woman who'd fallen several hundred feet in difficult weather conditions.
▪ The plan had been to locate and rescue a seriously injured woman.
▪ She'd rescued this woman - his aunt presumably - from her crashed car, and gone for help.
▪ Jeanne requested an armed raid on the building to rescue the woman, but the group leader wouldn't hear of it.
worker
▪ He stepped into it and was dragged away by two rescue workers whose ankles were barely covered by the water.
▪ As darkness fell, rescue workers with flashlights began recovering and identifying bodies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Firefighters worked for two hours to rescue people who were trapped in the bus.
▪ She was rescued from her underpaid factory job by a movie director searching for new talent.
▪ We were rescued from the sinking ship by a passing fishing boat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And how do we rescue particular places, or should we leave them to decay?
▪ Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.
▪ Increased rates of operative delivery are not necessarily bad if genuinely compromised babies are rescued from death and damage.
▪ Smiling feebly, Mundin stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.
▪ Time for college basketball to rescue us.
▪ Twenty one pensioners had to be rescued by boat from their sheltered accommodation.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
animal
▪ Read in studio An animal rescue centre that cares for sick and injured wildlife may have to close because of the recession.
▪ On site there's an environmental museum and an animal rescue centre.
attempt
▪ One fireman was severely burned in a rescue attempt.
▪ But many seals and otters are now dying on inaccessible rocks and today's high winds are preventing any rescue attempt.
boat
▪ A crash attracted the attention of the rescue boats, and the cameras.
▪ Try to sail in a location offering safety cover - a rescue boat to pick you up if you get into trouble.
▪ Then it seems the rescue boat itself crashed, throwing Mr Hill into the water for a second time.
centre
▪ Read in studio An animal rescue centre that cares for sick and injured wildlife may have to close because of the recession.
▪ On site there's an environmental museum and an animal rescue centre.
▪ Sanctuary appeal: Scarborough wildlife leader Jim Ward has launched an appeal to create a rescue centre.
▪ Read in studio A wildlife rescue centre has cancelled an invitation to Princess Michael of Kent because she hunts.
effort
▪ Initial rescue efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy equipment and by landslides triggered by the initial earthquake.
▪ He was found after a six-hour rescue effort.
▪ A LOW-FLYING duck was fatally injured in Darlington yesterday despite the rescue efforts of shopworkers.
▪ Y., resident still limps from a bullet wound suffered days after his rescue effort.
▪ It is covered with enlarged images of the explosion, the rescue efforts and the implosion.
▪ I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts.
▪ Search and rescue efforts were hampered Friday by rain and heavy seas.
helicopter
▪ Highlight of the day was a 20 minute flight in one of the rescue helicopters.
▪ He was struck there for four hours with Park Service rescue helicopters buzzing around, throwing him ropes.
▪ A rescue helicopter was scrambled after his empty dinghy was spotted floating out to sea.
▪ The rescue helicopter strewed thousands of blossoms on the waters of the Bay.
mission
▪ They had already tried to get him to mount a rescue mission using his ship.
▪ No staggering lines formed at rescue missions.
▪ A desperate rescue mission was launched.
▪ He hit upon a rescue mission for himself: freedom bonds.
▪ But social service officials have warned that even if this latest rescue mission is successful the children could face long-term emotional problems.
▪ Intermittent radio failure on board the boat also hampered the rescue mission.
▪ He believes rescue missions should be carefully planned but do serve a purpose.
mortgage
▪ His only chance of avoiding a council bed and breakfast hostel is a mortgage rescue scheme.
mountain
▪ We scrambled out of our tents shouting excitedly, straight into the pools of torchlight coming from the mountain rescue team.
▪ This is a theme echoed by John Allen, leader of the Cairngorms mountain rescue team.
▪ More than 100 rescuers including doctors, mountain rescue teams and other skiers, clawed at the snow.
▪ This body acts as a guide to all mountain rescue teams.
▪ Four-year-old Oscar went racing into the darkness as his owners helped make hot drinks for mountain rescue teams.
▪ I was told that in Britain the weather has to be really dire before a mountain rescue search is called off.
▪ I've been involved in the mountain rescue world for 14 years.
operation
▪ Divers alert: A major rescue operation was launched yesterday after two divers were reported missing off Redcar.
▪ After searching two days for the body, authorities called off the rescue operation.
▪ He merely flew into the airport, where the military rescue operation was being organized.
▪ Indeed, the entire rescue operation seems to have proceeded at a glacial pace.
▪ Fortunately a small group of folk banded together determined to save the bird and the rescue operation began.
▪ This was the command center for the dangerous rescue operation of ValuJet Flight 592.
▪ This rescue operation proved reasonably successful, as shown by Table 11.4.
▪ Some sites are so important that it may be necessary for a rescue operation on an international scale.
package
▪ Earlier, Kok said he wanted Daimler-Benz to contribute more to a rescue package for the aircraft maker.
▪ He is set to front a new rescue package, with a mystery backer ready to invest a substantial sum.
▪ Newcastle have £6m worth, and are hoping that Sir John's proposed rescue package helps them out.
▪ The answer may be one or both of these and only a careful rescue package can avert a total disaster.
▪ The £10m they have pledged towards a £13m rescue package has yet to materialise.
▪ Lilley asked to be put into receivership after a financial rescue package did not receive full support from its bankers.
▪ One of the fastest-growing companies of the 1980s, the now-ailing Saatchi &038; Saatchi, announced a second financial rescue package.
party
▪ She explained the need to raise an immediate rescue party and return to Great Ararat.
▪ The rescue party of volunteers decided on a different solution.
▪ Officially you are all going to be victims of a surprise attack on the rescue party by the native inhabitants.
▪ And just outside the garden I ran into this rescue party coming out to find me.
▪ Either they would send a rescue party, or they would adhere to quarantine regulations and he would be marooned on Tarvaras.
plan
▪ Only eight weeks into the job, Mr Gerstner is still concocting a rescue plan.
▪ Without a working budget, or a viable rescue plan, the organization continued its disastrous descent into the financial sinkhole.
▪ If the situation is not resolved within months, the rescue plan might cease to be viable.
▪ In November 1808 ten of her friends met in London to formulate a rescue plan.
▪ He set about drawing up a rescue plan amid a political storm that resulted in the resignation of two cabinet ministers.
▪ Members have also rejected a £6.7m rescue plan.
▪ The banks have been given only two more days to agree to support the receiver's rescue plan.
scheme
▪ His only chance of avoiding a council bed and breakfast hostel is a mortgage rescue scheme.
▪ Mortgage rescue schemes are an important part of that initiative.
sea
▪ At least Eline had learned that there had been no fatalities during the sea rescue though one or two men had been injured.
▪ A full air sea rescue was put into operation, involving St Mary's lifeboat and a helicopter from Valley.
service
▪ We know for a fact that the area was sealed off and that army and rescue services were called to the scene.
▪ She'd been counting on rescue services arriving with the dawn, but maybe they wouldn't be coming after all.
▪ The rescue services have more important things to do than look for windsurfers who are comfortably seated in the bar!
▪ The union acts as an industry police force and a rescue service for its members.
▪ Being in the vicinity, I helped remove the casualty's kit before ditching my own in order to phone the rescue services.
▪ He gave warning that centralising the rescue service as planned by the Government, had to affect response time.
▪ It is the first time aviation experts and the rescue services have held a joint conference on the importance of working together.
▪ The rescue service works like this: You are given a reference number and a free phone number when you register.
ship
▪ Vicki is praying that the rescue ship she knows is on its way will arrive in time to save them all.
▪ The rescue ship, full of supplies, was in sight!
team
▪ About the immense difficulty that would undoubtedly be experienced by rescue teams.
▪ Volunteers play a vital role on the water rescue team, Fonder said.
▪ The local coast rescue team used ropes to pull them away from danger after the alarm was raised.
▪ A helicopter rescue team found her barely off the trail and only about a quarter-mile from the top of El Capitan.
▪ The search and rescue team have been out looking for you.
▪ Members of the rescue team were elated when they landed at Scapa Pier near Kirkwall last night.
▪ We scrambled out of our tents shouting excitedly, straight into the pools of torchlight coming from the mountain rescue team.
▪ The New Brighton-based rescue team plucked five people from the water when the incident happened near Seacombe.
work
▪ Because of business commitments he's cut down on his rescue work.
▪ I think of it as rescue work.
▪ Repression through fear, combined with rescue work for the fallen, was no longer enough.
▪ The delay in starting rescue work has had one welcome effect.
▪ If the meticulous and demanding rescue work succeeds, birdwatchers using the hide will be in for a treat.
▪ Writing is your imagination's rescue work.
▪ Another factor in the slowing of the rescue work was the condition of the air in which the men had to work.
▪ While hard-pressed police were occupied in rescue work, the heartless thieves descended on local shopping centres.
worker
▪ The driver, from Kempsey near Worcester, had jumped clear and was found by rescue workers.
▪ There are also two people who served as rescue workers after the Oklahoma City bombing.
▪ Before the car could be moved, rescue workers had to shore up the building, which was in danger of collapse.
▪ Ginter was unconscious when rescue workers loaded him on to a stretcher.
▪ Could Sandra please not say a word to anyone, not even the women or the other rescue workers?
▪ But Tuesday afternoon rescue workers were still searching the rubble, cordoned off by dozens of uniformed soldiers and police.
▪ The immediate priority for rescue workers is to reach the millions of people still stranded.
▪ The woman, who spotted the boy in trouble, yelled to him to sit still while she called rescue workers.
■ VERB
call
▪ Breeze tried next, but failed, so Chignell had to be called to the rescue.
▪ After searching two days for the body, authorities called off the rescue operation.
▪ I mean, did Gephardt call for making the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization?
▪ We must even be judicious when hiking though the outback, where objects sometimes call out for rescue.
▪ The woman, who spotted the boy in trouble, yelled to him to sit still while she called rescue workers.
come
▪ Lady Dorman-Smith, the wife of the Governor, came to our rescue with two generous gifts of money.
▪ Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue.
▪ Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.
▪ Lorenzini comes to the rescue but demands custody of Pinocchio in return.
▪ In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue.
▪ The thirty-day rule comes to the rescue for thirty days.
▪ In theory, the law should come to your rescue.
▪ Chief Black Elk, who welcomed Mormon trade, came to the rescue by offering squatting rights.
help
▪ In 1982 they called on Mr Morton to help rescue Guinness Peat, which was close to collapse.
▪ Like the others, he is expected to help rescue survivors and then turn himself back in.
▪ Also, people volunteer to help rescue a child trapped in a well and to help in other rescues.
ride
▪ He had ridden to her rescue like a knight on a white charger and now he was insulting her.
▪ If it isn't, heaven knows who will ride to the rescue of the firm.
▪ So poor old Pater rode to the rescue once again.
run
▪ And just outside the garden I ran into this rescue party coming out to find me.
rush
▪ People rushed to her rescue, picked her up.
▪ Perhaps he could retire injured so that Rachel would rush to his rescue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.
▪ Assume that a duty of care is owed by A to C as a rescue was reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances.
▪ But Tuesday afternoon rescue workers were still searching the rubble, cordoned off by dozens of uniformed soldiers and police.
▪ Glenn Chamberlain said from the rescue center in Halifax.
▪ Royal Humane Society, founded in 1774 for the rescue of persons from drowning, and the recovery of dead bodies.
▪ So far, the rescue seems to have succeeded, at little cost to the lenders.
▪ Then it seems the rescue boat itself crashed, throwing Mr Hill into the water for a second time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rescue

Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescued (-k?d);p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing.] [OE. rescopuen, OF. rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See Qtash to crush, Rercussion.] To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me.
--Shak.

Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release; save.

Rescue

Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.]

  1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

    Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot.
    --Shak.

  2. (Law)

    1. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

    2. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

    3. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
      --Bouvier.

      The rescue of a prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods.
      --Blackstone.

      Rescue grass. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass ( Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rescue

late 14c., from rescue (v.). Earlier noun was rescous (early 14c.), from Old French rescous.

rescue

c.1300, from stem of Old French rescorre "protect, keep safe; free, deliver" (Modern French recourre), from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + escourre "to cast off, discharge," from Latin excutere "to shake off, drive away," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + -cutere, combining form of quatere "to shake" (see quash). Related: Rescued; rescuing.

Wiktionary
rescue

n. 1 An act or episode of rescuing, saving. 2 A liberation, freeing. 3 The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril 4 A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded 5 A rescuee. vb. 1 To save from any violence, danger or evil. 2 To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. 3 To recover forcibly. 4 To deliver by arms, notably from a siege. 5 (context figuratively English) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin. 6 (rfdef: English)

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WordNet
rescue

  1. v. free from harm or evil [syn: deliver]

  2. take forcibly from legal custody; "rescue prisoners"

rescue

n. recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: deliverance, delivery, saving]

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Wikipedia
Rescue

Rescue comprises responsive operations that usually involve the saving of life, or prevention of injury during an incident or dangerous situation.

Tools used might include search and rescue dogs, mounted search and rescue horses, helicopters, the " jaws of life", and other hydraulic cutting and spreading tools used to extricate individuals from wrecked vehicles. Rescue operations are sometimes supported by special vehicles such as fire department's or EMS heavy rescue vehicle.

Rescue (British Archaeological Trust)

Rescue, the British Archaeological Trust is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom, "committed to the protection, conservation, recording and interpretation of archaeological evidence".

Rescue was founded in 1971 as a pressure group, campaigning for government funds to permit the excavation of archaeological sites in advance of road-building, construction or other development.

Its founders included Margaret Ursula Jones and Phillip A. Barker.

Rescue (group)

RESCUE is a Christian a cappella quartet of musical performers operating out of Gresham, OR. The group started as a quartet in 1997 consisting of Jason Overstreet, Jason McKenney, Chad Krober, and Matt Lusk and released their first album in 1999. Tim Storms, who set a Guinness World Record for the lowest note produced by a human in 2000, was a member of the group from 2001 until 2004. Currently, Overstreet is the only original member of the group. Overstreet continues to write, arrange and produce the group's repertoire and albums.

Rescue (video game)

Rescue is a computer game published by Mastertronic in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum. It was written by Ste Cork and Tiny Williams.

Rescue (KAT-TUN song)

"Rescue" is the tenth single by Japanese boy band, KAT-TUN, and their fourth single from their fourth studio album, Break the Records: By You & For You. It was released on March 11, 2009 and became the group's tenth consecutive number one single on the Oricon daily and weekly charts tying them with NEWS for the second longest streak of number one singles since their debut in Japanese music history.

Rescue (Sanjay Mishra album)

Rescue is a 2000 album by Sanjay Mishra.

Rescue (Silverstein album)

Rescue is the fifth studio album by the Canadian post-hardcore band Silverstein. It was released on 26 April 2011, the first full-length album to be released through Hopeless Records.

Rescue (band)

Rescue are a five-piece alternative rock-folk band from St Albans in the United Kingdom. They began in 2009 and have toured Hertfordshire and London to much acclaim, including two headline slots at the 2008 UK Music Pub of the Year, The Horn. On the 6 February, the band released their debut single "Don't Feel the Rain". The band announced earlier this year that they will be touring again in the summer of 2011.

Rescue (disambiguation)

Rescue refers to operations that usually involve the saving of life, or prevention of additional injury.

It may also refer to:

  • Rescue (British Archaeological Trust), a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom
  • Rescue (TV series), a 13-part documentary series focused on air-sea rescue work
  • Rescue, California
  • Rescue, Missouri
  • Rescue, the former codename of Pepper Potts in the Iron Man comics
  • World Life Saving Championships, biannual life saving sport event, styled Rescue
Music
  • "Rescue" (Echo & the Bunnymen song), the second single released by the band Echo & the Bunnymen
  • Rescue (group), a Christian a cappella quartet of musical performers operating out of Gresham, Oregon
  • "Rescue" (KAT-TUN song), the tenth single by Japanese boy band, KAT-TUN
  • Rescue (Sanjay Mishra album)
  • Rescue (Silverstein album), 2011 album
  • Rescue (band), a five-piece alternative rock-folk band from St Albans in the United Kingdom
Computer games
  • Rescue (video game), a computer game published by Mastertronic in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum
  • Rescue!, a Macintosh shareware computer game first released in April 1993 by Tom Spreen
  • Rescue: The Embassy Mission, the Nintendo Entertainment System port of Hostages
Rescue (TV series)

Rescue was a 13-part documentary series created and directed by Cameraman Paul Berriff. It focused on the air-sea rescue work of "Rescue 137", a Sea King belonging to 202 Sqn, Royal Air Force Search and Rescue Force in and around their base at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland and the North Sea over a period of a year between 1988 -1989.

The series covered a multitude of incidents ranging from ferrying a sick child to hospital right up to the world's worst offshore disasters, the explosion and ensuing fire on the Piper Alpha oil platform.

Theme and incidental music was by Robert Howes and Rod Argent.

STV has upload all the episodes, with the exception of "Piper Alpha" to the STV Player YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/show/rescue

Westland Sea King HAR3A of the type featured in Rescue

Rescue (song)

"Rescue" is the second single released by the band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 5 May 1980 and subsequently included on the Crocodiles album, which was released on 18 July 1980. It was the band's first single to chart, reaching number 62 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also their first release on the newly formed Korova label.

On the single's release, Smash Hits described it as "attractive left field pop" that had "sparse guitarring reminiscent of early cure and plenty of deadpan melodic bite".

The single was reissued as a limited edition 7" single on 4 December 2006 on the same label and with the same catalogue number, KOW 1, and reached number 177 on the UK Singles Chart. A promo 7" version was also released by Korova in January 1983.

The song was covered by the Scottish rock group Idlewild on their 2000 single " These Wooden Ideas".

Rescue (TV program)

Rescue is a reality and documentary TV program created by GMA News and Public Affairs for GMA Network. It is hosted by broadcast journalist, Arnold Clavio. The show features actual footages of raids, rescue operations of emergency response teams, on-site accidents, and numerous other life-threatening situations.

Rescue (1982 video game)

Rescue is an arcade game in which the player navigates a helicopter over the open seas to rescue stranded paratroopers from enemy forces and sharks. It was designed by Chris Oberth and published by Stern in 1982.

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Usage examples of "rescue".

It is another key discovery that the old seers made, but in their aberration they relegated it to oblivion until it was rescued by the new seers.

According to it, the Franks, uniting with the barons of Antioch and its fiefs, abetted by certain Knights Templars and whatever forces could be recruited in Tripoli and Jerusalem, would go against Islam in the east and north, rescue Edessa, and repair the bulwarks of Antioch against the danger of invasion.

Not only to free us, but to rescue the others, Bryan, Elizabeth, Aiken, Stein.

Band-Aids, and the ailing plant Jenks had rescued from the half-price rack in the tiny floral department.

At night, when everybody was asleep, he and the famous airman Lyapidevsky found and rescued the Chelyuskin expedition, and with Vodopyanov he landed heavy aircraft on the pack ice at the North Pole, arid with Chkalov opened the unexplored air route to the United States across the Pole.

He recalled that Alise had cast a Void spell in order to rescue them from the palace guard.

It was difficult for the old retainer to be serious about a person, even a doctor, who had been rescued from trees as a child and spanked on more than one occasion for disturbing the Ames beehives.

Petersburg as to the meaning of that invasion, and it received the answer that Russia felt compelled to come to the rescue of the Ameer at his request, for the Afghan ruler was anxious for his independence, in view of the measures which were taken by England.

She was interested in her body and her face, but she was obsessed with her hair, which at the time they rescued Billy Anker from Redline was a long pinkish-blonde floss that smelled permanently of peppermint shampoo.

It was not reached by an induction of facts, a study of phenomena, or any fair process of reasoning, but was arbitrarily created to rescue a dogma from otherwise inevitable rejection.

The disguised Arjun now came to the rescue in the manner described in this Book.

Marilee ruined her chicken dish and Axel rescued her with a steak barbeque that was so successful, it made her pout and threaten to lead all his fishing and hiking expeditions.

Small wonder that the lad on the hill grinned, for the man who ran to rescue his hat from the stream was none other than the Bailly of the island, next in importance to the Lieutenant-Governor.

The equal shock of finding his rescuers to be his friends, and the rescuing vessel the Bandersnatch, completed the good work, and that deep abyss of two forgotten years, wherein had been lost the great war and many other memories less vast, was filled.

The great mass of Frenchmen who had been waiting behind the barbican scattered into the island, most, Thomas assumed, going to rescue their wives and daughters.