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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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| Much of his own prolific work is lost, though a fair amount is rescuable from quotations in others, friends and foes. What has now emerged is that you had 400 people--343 firemen and the police--who died inside buildings that were empty of rescuable people. Though he believes the present public education system "is not rescuable," he offers hope that the American political system will find the will and the way to a form of public education that will work both for children and the larger society it is supposed to serve. |
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