helpless

• He was removed to what they call the helpless ward, where he was well nursed and attended. —  Poor Jack
• I don't know how you got round me I wonder I guess it was because you was kind of helpless, and I didn't know what you'd do without me I guess it was love, and you couldn't help yourself." —  The Land of Promise
• Of your bunglers--helpless, inefficient persons, "unfit alike for good or ill," who try one thing, and fail because they are not strong enough, and another, because they have not energy enough, and a third, because they have no talent--inconsistent, unstable, and therefore never to excel, what shall we say of them? —  Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
• They look so little and--helpless, and as if they were made to hold in one's arms. —  Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst"
• Enough that he was soon accepted as one of the party; that the children, with that quick intelligence which Providence gives the helpless, recognized a friend, and played with his blond beard and long silken mustache, and took other liberties--as the helpless are apt to do. —  Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2

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