That the man was tied and
helpless Sheeta could, of course, see; but that to the mind of the panther this would carry any suggestion of harm in so far as his master was concerned, Tarzan could not guess.
It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed,
helpless feeling.
A strong breeze soon fanned the spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and
helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.
Of course I said fair and square at once what I had done, and why; then I showed the master the flies, some crushed and some crawling about
helpless, and I showed him the wings on the window sill.
And here I am, unknown and unemployed, a
helpless artist lost in London--with a sick wife and hungry children, and bankruptcy staring me in the face.
But still I had feared him, blind and
helpless and listening, always listening, and I never let his strong arms get within reach of me while I worked.
It was with her I had to cope for the next four-and-twenty hours; and she filled me with a greater present terror than all those villains at the hall; for had not their poor little
helpless captive described her as "about the worst of the gang?"
She was thinking of the
helpless men in the inner chamber, and she quietly recalled the surgeon to a sense of his professional duties.
The susceptibility which would have been an impelling force where there was any possibility of action became
helpless anguish when he was obliged to be passive, or else sought an active outlet in the thought of inflicting justice on Arthur.
Alexey Alexandrovitch, a man of great power in the world of politics, felt himself
helpless in this.
His arms hung
helpless at his sides; of his eyes only he retained control, and these he dared not remove from the lusterless orbs of the apparition, which he knew was not a soul without a body, but that most dreadful of all existences infesting that haunted wood--a body without a soul!
At last, however, she fell right into the wind's eye, was taken dead aback, and stood there awhile
helpless, with her sails shivering.