lend a hand

“Again I ordered the shrimp-catchers to lend a hand with the buckets.”

White and Yellow

“But it is recorded of him, that once, when his whole summer's crop of hay was threatened with the bursting of a thunder-shower, and farmhands being short, he was importuned to lend a hand to save it, he resolutely declined, saying, that, if he once began to allow himself to be called on in any emergency for temporal affairs, he should become forgetful of his great mission.”

Oldtown Folks

“However, Tess became humanely beneficent towards the small ones, and to help them as much as possible she used, as soon as she left school, to lend a hand at haymaking or harvesting on neighbouring farms; or, by preference, at milking or butter-making processes, which she had learnt when her father had owned cows; and being deft-fingered it was a kind of work in which she excelled.”

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Custer got Capehart into place just in time to lend a hand to Smith, who, severely pressed, came back on us here from his retreat along Chamberlain's "bed" -- the vernacular for a woody swamp such as that through which Smith retired.”

Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

“The Ghost swung around into the wind, and I finished my work forward in time to run aft and lend a hand with the mainsheet.”

Chapter 25