1 His wife's retort was like a knife-cut across the sinews and he felt suddenly weak and powerless.
2 There was something ominous in the air, exactly what Ashley did not know, but he was powerless to save Scarlett from it.
3 War and constant pain and hard work had been powerless against their sweet tranquillity.
4 Thanks to the negro vote, the Republicans and their allies were firmly entrenched and they were riding rough-shod over the powerless but still protesting minority.
5 She put out her hand, and measured the soothing drops into a glass; but as she did so, she knew they would be powerless against the supernatural lucidity of her brain.
6 Thus, while in life the great whale's body may have been a real terror to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a world.
7 Men who, like Governor Tillman, start the ball of lynch law rolling for a certain crime, are powerless to stop it when drunken or criminal white toughs feel like hanging an Afro-American on any pretext.
8 Single-handed, and with his limited knowledge of the mountains which surrounded the settlement, he knew that he was powerless.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 9 All this time, as if a spell were on him, he was motionless and powerless, except to watch her.
10 And yet he was powerless to preserve his privacy; he was a hired man, and these people were his masters.
11 And he was powerless, powerless.
12 The young lady, making an effort to recover her cheerfulness, strove to play some livelier tune; but her fingers dropped powerless over the keys.
13 The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 14 If their intentions are evil they might do you a mischief, and we should be powerless to prevent it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads 15 Then Death blew on her hands, and she felt that it was colder than the cold wind, and her hands fell down powerless.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE STORY OF A MOTHER