2. Verb. (third-person singular of rescue) ¹
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Definition of Rescues
1. rescue [v] - See also: rescue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rescues
Literary usage of Rescues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1872)
"GOD'S rescues.*—We have heard that some years ago a promi- ri^nt clergyman of New
... God'> rescues: or, the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son. ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1872)
"GOD'S rescues.*—We have heard that some years ago a prominent clergyman of New York,
... G<xFs rescues: or, the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son. ..."
3. Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper (1899)
"... t -25 n8 h - Gallant rescues at Sea, 7 n 6 / — ' — ll,eGu,yrs Fire on Board.
lS о 6 n — — the K,ng' tC,'oa, ... of Plague ,na Line, 8 rf 6/ rescues hy a ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland (1886)
"by another, receives, comforts, or assists him in order to enable him to escape
from punishment, or rescues him from an arrest for crime, or, having him in ..."
5. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"Mobs and Collisions, Seizures and rescues, in consequence. The Question of" Three
Pence " the Pound on Tea discussed. The Barbarous Commercial Code of ..."
6. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"Mobs and Collisions, Seizures and rescues, in consequence. The Question of" Three
Pence " the Pound on Tea discussed. The Barbarous Commercial Code of ..."
7. The Practice at Law, in Equity, and in Special Proceedings in All the Courts by William Wait (1872)
"... ESCAPES, rescues, ETC. Section 1. In general. When persons having lawful
authority to arrest, apprehend, or imprison, or otherwise to advance or execute ..."
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