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rescue 1. the forcible removal of a person from legal custody 2. Law the forcible seizure of goods or property Rescue Abishai saves David from death by Benob. [O.T.: II Samuel 21:17] saved by Perseus from sea monster. [Gk. Myth: Hall, 239; Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses] traditional resting place of Noah’s ark after the Flood. [O.T.: Genesis 8:4] thrown overboard; carried safely to land by dolphins. [Gk. Myth.: LLEI, I: 323; Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] St. Bernard dog; saved over 40 snowbound people in Alps. [Swiss Hist.: Wallechinsky, 126] spider that saves Wilbur the pig from slaughter. [Am. Lit.: E. B. White Charlotte’s Web] survived Zeus’s flood in ark. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmer-man, 85] saved by Orestes from Scythian thieves. [Gk. Lit.: Iphigenia in Tauris] combined military-civilian operation rescued 340,000 British troops (1940). [Br. Hist.: Van Doren, 475] daring Israeli raid freed airline hostages at Ugandan airport (1977). [World Hist.: Facts (1977), 487] rescues Alcestis from Hades after her self-sacrifice. [Gk. Lit.: Alcestis; Ger. Opera: Gluck, Alceste, Westerman, 73–75] rescued at the moment of her sacrificial stabbing. [Gk. Myth.: Gayley, 80–81] “saved” from being sacrificed by angel of the Lord. [O.T.: Genesis 22:2–13] saved from drowning in belly of great fish. [O.T.: Jonah 1:17] saved from hanging by the king’s reprieve. [Ger. Opera: Weill, Threepenny Opera, Westerman, 497] rescued by Wilhelm Meister from gypsies. [Fr. Opera: Thomas, Mignon, Westerman, 187] with his sons, deemed by God worth saving from His destructive flood. [O.T.: Genesis 6–10] spared from Jericho’s destruction for aid rendered to Joshua’s army. [O.T.: Joshua 6:25]
used magic powers to rescue Marco Polo. [Irish Lit.: Messer Marco Polo, Magill I, 584–585] fairy saved by the faith of the audience after she drinks a lethal potion. [Br. Drama: J. M. Barrie Peter Pan in Magill II, 820] used in crown awarded to one who saves a life. [Rom. Tradition: Wheeler, 765] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But take care, or I shall have to rescue you again. The ship's cook is not a man to look back on his rescue with the feeling of unmitigated satisfaction which animates his companions in trouble. Presently after I will appear in mine own shape, play the courteous knight, rescue the unfortunate and afflicted fair one from the hands of the rude ravishers, conduct her to Front-de-B |
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