1 "All this helps nothing," said the leader.
2 'That's why having a son helps; one is only a link in a chain,' he said.
3 So much is this the case that what is called the play of the features often helps more in understanding a man or woman than the earnest labours of all the other members together.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 4 Beyond the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 5 It is a singular thing, but I find that a concentrated atmosphere helps a concentration of thought.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 3. The Problem 6 He helps to keep our lives from being monotonous and gives a little comic relief where it is badly needed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson 7 It's plain enough, and helps the paradox delightfully.
8 "They're things as helps themselves," said Martha.
9 The law backs that old Judge Thatcher up and helps him to keep me out o my property.
10 You don't know how it helps me.
11 and probably there's nothing that helps very much.
12 Ever since I have been in these parts I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and seeing no one but that child who helps me.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 13 The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man to have patience.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 14 We repeat this to ourselves, but it helps us not.
15 The combination of a certain adroitness with deep-seated earnestness, of tact with consummate ability, gave him his preeminence, and helps him maintain it.