Assist

Can a stomach, of its own motion, assist at a crime?

It has often led him to be liberal and generous—to give his money freely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants, and relieve the poor.

Why would the triarchs assist a queen who smashed the slave trade?” He pointed at Illyrio.

He imagined to himself vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue.

Richardson was between her legs, and Laurie Constable was standing nearby to assist him.

I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob!

Nefud signaled men to assist him, led them out the door.

She towered over Professor Umbridge.“Potter,” she said in ringing tones, “I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do!

“In England the small folk live under the soil and deep in the hedges, and they come out to assist the deserving, to cast spells and to reward the poor.” “Clara is beautiful,” admits Caspar, “but deserving?” With a firmness that hides her doubt, Iris says, “At least Clara has paid some attention to Ruth, and Clara has seen to her father’s needs.

When the calèche stopped, the driver jumped down and held out his hand to assist me to alight.

For this reason the best possible fortress is—not to be hated by the people, because, although you may hold the fortresses, yet they will not save you if the people hate you, for there will never be wanting foreigners to assist a people who have taken arms against you.

Young Pallas, when he saw the chief advance Within due distance of his flying lance, Prepares to charge him first, resolv’d to try If fortune would his want of force supply; And thus to Heav’n and Hercules address’d: “Alcides, once on earth Evander’s guest, His son adjures you by those holy rites, That hospitable board, those genial nights; Assist my great attempt to gain this prize, And let proud Turnus view, with dying eyes, His ravish’d spoils.” ’Twas heard, the vain request; Alcides mourn’d, and stifled sighs within his breast.

“I could assist you professionally in your attempts to hustle little miss--” Fred shot the tape ahead at high-speed wind.

136 The one seeks an accoucheur for his thoughts, the other seeks someone whom he can assist: a good conversation thus originates.

But when the swift Pequod, with a fresh leading wind, was herself in hot chase; how very kind of these tawny philanthropists to assist in speeding her on to her own chosen pursuit—mere riding-whips and rowels to her, that they were.

Boys who minister tenderly to their parents and assist them in their misery and infirmities, are deserving of great praise and affection, even if they cannot be cited as examples of obedience and good behavior.

There was more than benevolence in this action; there was courage; the south was aflame, and to assist, even on his deathbed, the father of so dangerous a Bonapartist as Dantès, was stigmatized as a crime.

Would you like a bellman to assist you with your bags?"

He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade.

Jason was all the way across the room battling the other dragon, much too far away to assist.

What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one’s being alone.

I have allow’d the stress of my poems from beginning to end to bear upon American individuality and assist it—not only because that is a great lesson in Nature, amid all her generalizing laws, but as counterpoise to the leveling tendencies of Democracy—and for other reasons.

There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies?

"Can I assist you in some way?"

When he had betaken himself to the women’s apartment to assist at the prescribed ceremony of the afterbirth in the presence of the secretary of state for domestic affairs and the members of the privy council, silent in unanimous exhaustion and approbation the delegates, chafing under the length and solemnity of their vigil and hoping that the joyful occurrence would palliate a licence which the simultaneous absence of abigail and officer rendered the easier broke out at once into a strife of tongues.

Billy never even got to meet the chaplain he was supposed to assist, was never even issued a steel helmet and combat boots.

Beetee asks Finnick to assist him, and the rest of us stand guard.

We were to assist the three: and I was not to carry out my saucy threat to take Damascus, till we were all together.

“… all citizens are warned not to shelter or in any fashion aid or assist this dangerous marginal individual.

Some of the courtiers had fitted themselves with delicate devices to assist their hearing.

If Inspector Raglan permits me to assist him, I shall be both honoured and flattered.” The inspector’s countenance became still more gracious.

It has been asserted, that of the best short-beaked tumbler-pigeons a greater number perish in the egg than are able to get out of it; so that fanciers assist in the act of hatching.

He knows all about the mountain animals, will guard the camp, assist in managing the sheep, and in every way be found able and faithful.” Carlo knew we were talking about him, watched our faces, and listened so attentively that I fancied he understood us.

Then, begging her pardon for all past unpleasantness, to make her a present of ten thousand roubles and so assist the rupture with Mr. Luzhin, a rupture to which I believe she is herself not disinclined, if she could see the way to it.” “You are certainly mad,” cried Raskolnikov not so much angered as astonished.

And is it thus the gods assist the just?

Why would the triarchs assist a queen who smashed the slave trade?” He pointed at Illyrio.

Come along!” But the druggist, turning red, confessed that he was too sensitive to assist at such an operation.

These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands Will keep from wilderness with ease, as wide As we need walk, till younger hands ere long Assist us.

He would certainly have preferred Sweden, where the level of intelligence was high and where he could swim nude with beautiful girls with low, demurring voices and sire whole happy, undisciplined tribes of illegitimate Yossarians that the state would assist through parturition and launch into life without stigma; but Sweden was out of reach, too far away, and Yossarian waited for the piece of flak that would knock out one engine over the Italian Alps and provide him with the excuse for heading for Switzerland.

These are only a few indications, but they may assist you.” Lestrade and Gregson glanced at each other with an incredulous smile.

This was the state’s craft, that maintain’d The whole, of which each part complain’d: This, as in music harmony, Made jarrings in the main agree; Parties directly opposite, Assist each oth’r, as ’twere for spite; And temp’rance with sobriety Serve drunkenness and gluttony.