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Sentences ending with helpless

The only man who could have controlled the position was blind and helpless. [11]
If McDowell's force was now beyond our reach, we should be utterly helpless. [7]
She is so unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! [2]
With a free track before us we should still have been helpless. [5]
Well, so much the more he should be befriended, for he was so much the more alone and helpless. [11]
It was clear that Judge Carcasson felt deeply the dangers of the crisis, and that the futile outburst had merely been the agitated protest of the helpless. [11]
Joan had to submit--because she was wounded and helpless. [5]
But the third stayed there, immovable, helpless. [9]
He is at present lying entirely helpless. [6]
We do rely on that power for movement--and in the moments when it is withdrawn we are helpless. [9]

Short sentences using helpless

Ham won't be helpless, physically. [9]
He made a helpless gesture. [11]
Yet he was handsome--and helpless. [11]
I was crazed and helpless. [5]
I was helpless. [9]
I'm helpless, now. [11]

Sentences containing helpless two or more times

It has often been objected to such views as the foregoing, that man is one of the most helpless and defenceless creatures in the world; and that during his early and less well-developed condition, he would have been still more helpless. [1]

More example sentences with the word helpless in them

Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
I said it would go right to my head, and confuse me so that I would be in a helpless tangle in ten minutes. [5]
A better analogy would be the human anatomy: we lawyers, of course, were the brains; the financial and industrial interests the body, helpless without us; the City Hall politicians, the stomach that must continually be fed. [9]
The branch falls with the decay of its support, and must cling to the new growths around it, if it would not lie helpless in the dust. [6]
Now she understood why she had shrunk from Gaston that first night and those first days in Audierne: that strange sixth sense, divination--vague, helpless prescience. [11]
The young panthers were so funny and helpless, I would not kill them, but I did them up in my sheepskin, and brought them to my father. [10]
And if you were not such a helpless, old, old man. [10]
And after they were in office they were as helpless as so many stone images. [5]
They realized they were helpless in the grip of harsh circumstance. [11]
The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. [1]
Poor Mr. Stoker was now helpless, faithfully and tenderly waited upon by his own wife, who had regained her health and strength,--in no small measure, perhaps, from the great need of sympathy and active aid which her unfortunate husband now experienced. [6]
But down-stream work was different; a boat was too nearly helpless, with a stiff current pushing behind her; so it was not customary to run down-stream at night in low water. [5]
Beneath his speech was an undercurrent--or undertow, perhaps--carrying her swiftly, easily, helpless into the deep waters of intimacy. [9]
In her eyes was a helpless look, very different from that which she had given not so many days before when, with Orlando Guise behind her, she had defied her aged husband in his doorway, and her defiance had moved him from her path. [11]
Decrepit age, and vigorous life, and blooming youth, and helpless infancy, poured forth--on crutches, in the pride of strength and health, in the full blush of promise, in the mere dawn of life--to gather round her tomb. [12]
But the helpless town-bred damsel declined this friendly invitation; for her shrewd little head had devised another plan for saving her brother, though the tavern-keepers, to whom she confided it in a whisper, laughed and shook their heads over it. [10]
Such was Jethro's torment that morning as he saw her drive away, the minister in the place where he should have been, at her side, and he, Jethro Bass, as helpless as though he had indeed been in the pit among the flames. [9]
It was amusing too; for the coachman-lion was evidently disgusted with his task, and growled in a helpless kind of way. [11]
When I want to work, to work something out, no Daimon helps my soul; no--it feels quite helpless, and drifts into dreaminess. [10]
She was obliged to stand helpless while her victorious army dissolved away until hardly the skeleton of it was left. [5]
Prince Andrew longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless little creature, but dared not do so. [2]
I have nothing to say about them, but I should not be speaking to you now if they were not all rather helpless people. [8]
Could he venture to remain here near his victim, or was it his duty to use his powerful arms in defence of his helpless companions? [10]
It was necessary to her, for she occupied herself with the helpless little creature when, during the long morning hours of Ulrich's absence, sorrowful thought troubled her too deeply. [10]
It was hard to breathe in the dense smoke, and fiery sparks scorched my shawl and my hair, but I was conscious of one thought: You must save the helpless little creature's mother! [10]
It was delicious to be out of his reach, perfectly delicious, and made me feel good and thankful all up one side; but I was hanging there helpless and couldn't climb, and that made me feel perfectly wretched and miserable all down the other. [5]
If he were to be helpless, I could feel that I might be of some use, at least of more use. [9]
He was helpless to alter the course of events, to stay a terrible possibility. [11]
While she was thus engaged, the merry little man looked at her with an interest which did not appear to be diminished when he glanced at her helpless companion. [12]
It was as though she had made some strange covenant with a little helpless life, with a little face that was all her face; and that covenant she would keep. [11]
He looked as though he were about to spring upon the now helpless man. [11]
Did you ever think, Mona, that a man must suffer when he goes out into a world where he knows no one, penniless, with no trade, no profession, nothing except his own helpless self? [11]
Poor helpless creatures, they were in a trap; they were surrounded; they could not escape to the rear, for there was our army; they could not escape to the front, for there was I. [5]
The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over. [5]
As it opened, the Seigneur sank back in the chair, a look of helpless misery, touched by a fierce pride, covering his face. [11]
A dozen of the rascal's servants sprang forward, and in a moment we were helpless, with our hands bound behind us. [5]
It came in the night as you have come, and found me helpless as I am now. [11]
She vividly recalled the moment when he had his first stroke and was being dragged along by his armpits through the garden at Bald Hills, muttering something with his helpless tongue, twitching his gray eyebrows and looking uneasily and timidly at her. [2]
For instance, by the light dancing in Mr. Tiernan's eyes as he regarded her, she saw herself now as the mainstay of the helpless family in the clay-yellow flat across the street. [9]
We clung to the hours and the minutes, counting them as they wasted away, and parting with them with that pain and bereavement which a miser feels who sees his hoard filched from him coin by coin by robbers and is helpless to prevent it. [5]
Also, there were the helpless Old People yonder in the woods waiting-their fate and Brown's happiness to be determined by what Brown should do within the next two seconds. [5]
For many hours the helpless man lay insensible, but at last the flickering spirit struggled back to light for a little space. [11]
He leaned against the bulwarks, and made a helpless, despairing motion with his hand. [11]
How was it that while the scissors passed through the beard of a man's face the points did not suddenly slip up and stab the light from helpless eyes? [11]
Do not think that the old look upon themselves as the helpless, hopeless, forlorn creatures which they seem to young people. [6]
It may be that it might satisfy Daphne, full of kindness as she is, to devote herself, body and soul, to the service of her helpless companion. [10]
We contribute with thankful avidity to the new Methodist church, and are happy to think how lucky it was that those little colored Sunday-school scholars did not seize upon everything we had with violence, before we recovered from our momentary helpless condition. [5]
His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless efforts to seem calm. [2]
I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of mortal men. [6]
The most alarming symptom was a profound prostration, which at last reached such a point that he lay utterly helpless, as unable to move without aid as the feeblest of paralytics. [6]
Then, helpless and suffering and fevered, she yielded to the thrice-repeated request of Dicky Donovan, and was taken to the hospital at Assiout, which Fielding Bey, Dicky's friend, had helped to found. [11]
How fiercely he stretches his brave head toward us in helpless fury, and--step back!--how vigorously, spite of the pain of his poor, wounded, drooping pinion, he flaps the other, and raises his yellow claws to punish his foes! [10]
Everything was at stake; her father's life and with it maintenance and shelter for eight helpless creatures. [10]
Much of that spring Ephraim was all but helpless, and Cynthia spent many days nursing him and reading to him. [9]
The Cure, amazed, spread out his hands in a helpless way. [11]
They reeled and sprawled around as if they were drunk, and endangered everybody's lives around them, and finally fell over and lay helpless and kicking. [5]
He says they spell the name of their great painter "Vinci, but pronounce it Vinchy" --and then adds with a naivete possible only to helpless ignorance, "foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. [5]
Princess Mary was sitting helpless and bewildered in the large sitting room, when Rostov was shown in. [2]
There was another silence that seemed to me an eternity as I watched, a helpless witness, the struggle going on within her. [9]
We could not shoot the dogs without endangering the persons they were attached to; so we had to look on, helpless, at what was perhaps the most mortifying spectacle of the civil war. [5]
Once or twice she made as if she would speak, but sank down in the great chair, helpless and dismayed. [11]
Oh, Richard dear," she cried, "how delightful that you should be the helpless one, and dependent on me! [9]
The Judge has set about seriously trying to make the impression that when we meet at different places I am literally in his clutches--that I am a poor, helpless, decrepit mouse, and that I can do nothing at all. [7]
They will be scourged; and I, whom they have comforted and kindly entreated, must look on and see the great wrong done; it is strange, so strange, that I, the very source of power in this broad realm, am helpless to protect them. [5]
She did not say so, but the only doll she had ever owned had become insipid when the delight of such a reality as taking care of a helpless father had been thrust upon her. [9]
He had to run through the flames to get to the lake shore, and then we stood helpless and watched the devastation. [5]
On the day Rudyard married Jasmine he would have cut off his hand rather than imagine that he would enter his wife's room helpless from drink and singing a song which belonged to loose nights on the Limpopo and the Vaal. [11]
He spoke the ringin', lightnin' truth....Then he accused Tull of the underhand, miserable robbery of a helpless woman. [13]
Mizraim had seen removal follow upon removal, and the dark Nile flowed on gloomily, silently, faithful to the helpless ones tossed into its bosom. [11]
A hoarse nor'-easter ranged across the tiger's head in helpless fury: a night of awe to inland folk, and of danger to seafarers. [11]
And it is probable enough that the London promoters would cut out from the "Relation" complaints and evidence of the seditions and helpless state of the colony. [4]
This must be prevented, and Heinz seemed to understand her; for after their eyes had met, his glance of helpless enquiry told her that he would leave her to find an escape from this labyrinth. [10]
If he could prevent it, there should be, where he was concerned, no jealousy, such as Mazarine had shown towards the Mayor, in connection with this helpless, exquisite creature in the grip of hard fate. [11]
Before me the poor were equal with the rich, the powerful with the helpless widow. [10]
I never seen people look so helpless and tangled up, and I hain't ever seen eyes bug out and gaze without a blink the way theirn did. [5]
They watched him, paralyzed, as the helpless in this world watch the capable, and before he had finished his task the train crew and some passengers began to arrive. [9]
As we came out to take the horse-car, he saw his helpless daughters driven off in one hack, while he was raving among his meal-bags on the sidewalk. [4]
He sat down on the bed and laid his hand on the helpless one that rested on the coverlet. [9]
We were prisoners on a desolate island, in aggravating proximity to friends who were for the present helpless to aid us; and what was still more uncomfortable was the reflection that we had neither food nor water. [5]
Then he ordered old Endres and two of the menservants to watch the sleeping-room of his invalid wife, that in case anything should happen the helpless woman might be instantly borne to a place of safety. [10]
I laid one of the plainest and simplest of legal questions before Orion once, and the helpless and hopeless mess he made of it was absolutely astonishing. [5]
They were full of courage, now, and they broke into the fort and massacred the helpless soldiers and their officers. [5]
He was sensible of being manipulated, operated, but he was helpless to escape from the performer or to fathom her motives. [8]
I would have obeyed if I had been free, but I was helpless by my wound, and the knights carried me away by force. [5]
Her mind was numb, only her body seemed swept by fire, by emotions--emotions of fear, of anger, of desire so intense as to make her helpless. [9]
As she made none, he took upon himself to settle the whole matter without further torture of his helpless victim. [6]
Struggling was of no use with a halter round his windpipe, and he very soon began to tremble and stagger,--blind, no doubt, and with a roaring in his ears as of a thousand battle-trumpets,--at any rate, subdued and helpless. [6]
I have inherited my father's pride, and it would be odious to me if my brothers and sisters went about in rags, and people thought we were as poor and helpless as we really are. [10]
The instinct of mothering was strong in her, and from the beginning she had taken the shy and delicate student under her wing, recognizing in him one of the physically helpless dedicated to a supreme function. [9]
There are few more pathetic events recorded in history than this weeping, helpless, praying crowd, holding their lighted candles and kneeling on the pavement beneath the prison walls of the old fortress. [5]
There isn't a more helpless creature in the universe than a scholar with a vast amount of information over which he has no control. [4]
For eighteen long months the storms of war beat upon the helpless town, and left it at last the saddest wreck that ever the sun has looked upon. [5]
He had borrowed money of the Cranes till he owed them $700 and he being conscientious and honest, imagine what it was to him to have to carry this stubborn, helpless load year in and year out. [5]
Piteous, helpless, animal moans came through the door. [2]
However helpless he might be in a court, he could be counted on to stand up stanchly in a personal argument. [9]
If he had meant harm to the helpless man, he had brought no weapon; if he had been curious, there the man was peacefully sleeping! [11]
And yet without me, without my profession he was a helpless giant, at the mercy of those alert and vindictive lawmakers who sought to restrain and hamper him, to check his growth with their webs. [9]
Slowly they lowered me into it, for I was still helpless, Dorothy and her mother and Aunt Lucy were got down, and finally Mr. Marmaduke stepped gingerly from the sea-ladder over the gunwale. [9]
It was soon manifest that by applying these Rules ingeniously it could make the majority helpless, and keep it so as long as it pleased. [5]
Through this helpless man might come a way to Jo's own good. [11]

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