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1  They seemed very helpless in that pit of theirs.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
2  It came to me that I was upon this dark common, helpless, unprotected, and alone.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY.
3  He was as black as a sweep with the black dust, alive, but helplessly and speechlessly drunk.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON.
4  At Halliford I had already come to hate the curate's trick of helpless exclamation, his stupid rigidity of mind.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT.
5  I fell helplessly, in full sight of the Martians, upon the broad, bare gravelly spit that runs down to mark the angle of the Wey and Thames.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
6  Thus sunken, and seen in remote perspective, they appeared far less formidable than the huge iron bulk in whose wake the steamer was pitching so helplessly.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".
7  The tentacles swayed and struck like living arms, and, save for the helpless purposelessness of these movements, it was as if some wounded thing were struggling for its life amid the waves.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
8  He sprang to his feet and saw to starboard, and not a hundred yards from their heeling, pitching boat, a vast iron bulk like the blade of a plough tearing through the water, tossing it on either side in huge waves of foam that leaped towards the steamer, flinging her paddles helplessly in the air, and then sucking her deck down almost to the waterline.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".