Rescued

Examples

• Are you really rescued? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This they buried well up on the island, and for three years they lived there in constant hope of being rescued. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It was he who rescued you? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But the strangest part of it all is the wonderful creature who rescued us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Bred in meanness and hard dealing, this had rescued him to be a man of honourable mind and open hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• How would Our Lord have been if Peter had rescued him in the Garden? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Miss Flite has been bravely rescued from her chamber, as if it were in flames, and accommodated with a bed at the Sol's Arms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The little girl whom Adrian had rescued from utter desertion, during our ride through London on the twentieth of November, died at Auxerre. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Serbian army made a terrible retreat through the mountains of Albania to the coast, where its remains were rescued by an Allied fleet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Kantos Kan desires that this party whom we have rescued be brought immediately to the deck of the Xavarian, he said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But I had become satisfied that Burnside would not be rescued if his relief depended upon General Granger's movements. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Her screams had brought aid; and from the moment she was then rescued from him she had never seen him, except as a dead man in his coffin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• All at once a hand was stretched to me--such a delicate hand I scarcely dared trust it; its strength, however, has rescued me from ruin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The survivors of the wreck were rescued by an American vessel bound for Liverpool. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And yet you rescued me from a strange and perilous situation; you have benevolently restored me to life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• His removal, to make way for other accused persons who were to be tried, rescued him from these caresses for the moment. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Hughes was rescued from destruction, and has become the property of the Pratt Institute, of Brooklyn, to whose thousands of technical students it is a constant example and incentive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I tell you this, only to show you the necessity of the poor little foolish affectionate creature's being befriended and rescued. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• From this position of helplessness and humiliation I was rescued by Miss Halcombe. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Bred in coldness and severity, this had rescued him to have a warm and sympathetic heart. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When, later on, Lucius was prosecuted and condemned, Africanus rescued him by force. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Here, Lavinia, rising to the surface with the last draughtman rescued, interposed, 'You never cared for George Sampson, Bella. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Then it may be rescued and healed, said Dorothea I should not be afraid of asking Mr. Lydgate to tell me the truth, that I might help him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Now he discovered himself speculating upon the fate which would have fallen to the girl had he not rescued her from Terkoz. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Turning her thoughts this way, I gave them an object which rescued them from insanity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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