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Rescuer   /rˈɛskjˌuər/   Listen
Rescuer

noun
1.
A person who rescues you from harm or danger.  Synonyms: deliverer, savior, saviour.
2.
Someone who saves something from danger or violence.  Synonyms: recoverer, saver.






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"Rescuer" Quotes from Famous Books



... ef I have," grated the rescuer, "I expect we'd better make sure of the job and then I kin ...
— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton

... safety, and in floods of grateful tears, the rescuer bent over the side of the wharf once more, intent on saving the gallant ship from her fate; but at this moment came a strong swirl of tide, the log swung round once more and floated off, and the rescuer fell "all along" into the water. This was nothing unusual, and he came puffing ...
— Nautilus • Laura E. Richards

... to the saving of life—in those days, and well on into the eighteenth century, it was believed to be a most unlucky thing to save a drowning person; he was sure eventually to do his rescuer some deadly injury. A similar belief, as regards the ill luck, prevails in China to this day; nothing will induce a Chinaman to help a drowning man from the water. In our own case, probably this superstition as to ill ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

... had been caught under the overturned cutter, escaped like a wild thing out of a trap, when it was lifted, and, plunging some paces away, faced round upon her rescuer with the hood pulled straight and set comely to her face again, almost before he could ask, "Any bones ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells

... the porter had walked almost half a block. But both of them had heard the first remarks, and as the would-be rescuer set out in pursuit of them, Bob chanced to look back, and saw her coming, followed by several of the crowd who had first stopped to watch them in the hopes that they might be afforded some amusement ...
— Bob Chester's Grit - From Ranch to Riches • Frank V. Webster


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