Helplessly

Examples

• Dorothea by this time had turned cold again, and now threw herself back helplessly in her chair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He is so anxious about us, you see, feeling helplessly shut up there. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Here was a stranger utterly and helplessly at my mercy--and that stranger a forlorn woman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Here, he dodged backwards and forwards, and did all sorts of things while I looked helplessly at him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The scheme is worth looking at for it does do away with the present dilemma of the citizen in which he wonders helplessly whether he ought to vote as a consumer or as a producer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Ireland had become a land of peasants, blankly ignorant and helplessly priest-ridden. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He sank down upon the sea-chest, and looked helplessly from one of us to the other. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In three weeks, you know, said Mr. Brooke, helplessly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She seemed to flow back, almost like liquid, from his approach, to sink helplessly away from him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Such armies as she had were rolling back helplessly toward Paris. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The girls stood still, laughing helplessly at his fury, upon the path beside the hedge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her face had become of a deathlier paleness, her lips trembled, and she pressed her hands helplessly on the hands that lay under them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The tiller-ropes of another vessel were carried away and she, too, dropped helplessly back. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I went into my own little room, and sat down in my chair in a perspiration, and wondered helplessly what was to be done next. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Editor: Maynard