1 That which had seemed incredible in the sober light of day had really come to pass, and he was to assist as a helpless spectator at Mattie's banishment.
2 In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures.
3 She is the most helpless soul--just like a sweet grown-up child, and Uncle Peter treats her that way.
4 The helpless wounded succumbed to her charms without a struggle.
5 He was in his mid-thirties, older than any beau she had ever had, and she was as helpless as a child to control and handle him as she had handled beaux nearer her own age.
6 She was helpless before his calm smile and his drawling remarks, for she had never before met anyone who was so completely impregnable.
7 Ellen was ill, perhaps dying, and here was Scarlett helpless in Atlanta with a pregnant woman on her hands and two armies between her and home.
8 Anything was preferable to being a helpless witness to such pain.
9 Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.
10 She felt as limp as a rag doll, warm, weak and helpless, and his supporting arms were so pleasant.
11 Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a deserted land.
12 Her father's arm still lay in the crook of hers, helpless, appealing, trusting, as only the hands of the very young and the very old can be.
13 This was the end of the road, quivering old age, sickness, hungry mouths, helpless hands plucking at her skirts.
14 It would be so good to sit here all day, away from the helpless eyes of Tara, here where only the rustle of leaves and the gurgle of slow water broke the stillness.
15 She could--and did--shout them down with bitter sarcasm but before Melanie's unselfishness she was helpless, helpless and resentful.