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Still, he did not need to see the helmless corpses to remember what the marshals had done.

A CALL TO DARKNESS MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN 2000

But like the Klingon, they were watching the helmless ones.

A CALL TO DARKNESS MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN 2000

With a speed he should no longer have been able to muster, the helmless one lashed out.

A CALL TO DARKNESS MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN 2000

On the shore he waited, watched, as I plunged into the stream, helmless, without the mail or weapons I had laid aside.

Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965

Condulmiero was already fiercely engaged, and soon his carack was a mere unrigged helmless waterlog, only saved from instant destruction by her immense size and terrific guns, which, well aimed, low on the water, to gain the _ricochet_, did fearful mischief among the attacking galleys.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

Her soul was as guileless and as ignorant as a child's; and she was stranded on life, with a large fortune, like a helmless ship, heavily loaded, that breaks from its anchor, and drives headlong upon a reef.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

From the pages of those commentators, whose imaginations have broken loose, you may cull fancies as manifold, as beautiful, and as useless as the gyrations of a helmless ship in a stormy sea.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

-- In the midst of a stormy sea, on which night seemed fast settling down, a helmless, mastless, sailless bark lay weltering giddily, and in it sat a man in the full flower of vigorous manhood.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

The action was, as a stroke, so idiotic that, although it might so easily have meant death to me, I turned half-about to where the stick pointed, as the helmless boat yawed.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Drift helmless o’er the seas, or strike the shoals!

From "Marie De Meranie" 1895