Samaritan

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Samaritan

1. a native or inhabitant of Samaria

3. the dialect of Aramaic spoken in Samaria

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He was crippled, ill, getting weaker every day, and Tekla the Samaritan tended him unweariedly with the pure joy of unselfish devotion.

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Does your ladyship mean the committee meeting of the Samaritan Convalescent Home?

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He was a barrister by profession; a ladies' man by temperament; and a good Samaritan by choice.

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If you should be inclined," the letter went on, "to play the good Samaritan, dear Elizabeth, I am positive you would find Minora a bright, intelligent companion--"

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Not vapid, waterish amusements, but good strong stuff; dealing in round abuse and blackguard names; pulling off the roofs of private houses, as the Halting Devil did in Spain; pimping and pandering for all degrees of vicious taste, and gorging with coined lies the most voracious maw; imputing to every man in public life the coarsest and the vilest motives; scaring away from the stabbed and prostrate body-politic, every Samaritan of clear conscience and good deeds; and setting on, with yell and whistle and the clapping of foul hands, the vilest vermin and worst birds of prey.

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Mrs Plornish's father,--a poor little reedy piping old gentleman, like a worn-out bird; who had been in what he called the music- binding business, and met with great misfortunes, and who had seldom been able to make his way, or to see it or to pay it, or to do anything at all with it but find it no thoroughfare,--had retired of his own accord to the Workhouse which was appointed by law to be the Good Samaritan of his district (without the twopence, which was bad political economy), on the settlement of that execution which had carried Mr Plornish to the Marshalsea College.

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They are the good Samaritans that find us robbed of all our dreams by the roadside of life, bleeding and weeping and desolate; and such is their skill and wealth and goodness of heart, that they not only heal up our wounds, but restore to us the lost property of our dreams, on one condition,--that we never travel with them again in the daylight.

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But the retreat had been hurried and the vultures and the good Samaritans would have to look to the dead.

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Being besought to go to him and dress the wound, the Doctor had passed out at the same gate, and had found him in the arms of a company of Samaritans, who were seated on the bodies of their victims.

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Hang it, Tom, if you're going to deprive all our school-fellows of the chance of exercising Christian benevolence and being good Samaritans, I shall cut the concern.

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Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for unanimously passing the Good Samaritan Search and Recovery Act, legislation Heller introduced to speed access to public lands so accredited volunteer search groups can conduct searches for missing persons.

United States : Senate Committee Passes Heller Bill to Expedite Searches for Missing Persons

However, the Samaritan hamlet in the West Bank is a place where both Israelis and Palestinians feel welcome.