1 They all four lay helpless on the floor, breathing heavily.
2 For a few seconds she lay in her helpless attitude and disarray.
3 Suddenly his eyes opened, and became fixed in a wild, helpless stare.
4 But were he wrecked, the living water would engulf him, helpless; and he would indeed be lost.
5 I had thrown myself beside her in an agony of helpless grief, and putting my arms around held her tight.
6 Our enemy is at his most helpless; and if we can come on him by day, on the water, our task will be over.
7 I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings.
8 The horses jumped about and reared, and looked helplessly round with eyes that rolled in a way painful to see; but the living ring of terror encompassed them on every side; and they had perforce to remain within it.
9 This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless.
10 He raised his hands over his head in a sort of mute despair, and then beat his palms together in a helpless way; finally he sat down on a chair, and putting his hands before his face, began to sob, with loud, dry sobs that seemed to come from the very racking of his heart.