They were both outsiders, social lightning conductors, defenceless from the start.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference

He said facial injuries appeared to have been inflicted when the detainees were being held down or were "defenceless".    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Even when she talks Touko out of her Drama Club doramaz, it's her 'defenceless' look that gets out her kouhai's dere-dere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

A heroin addict who stabbed a '' defenceless '' student to death during a burglary has been jailed for a minimum of 26 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference

In face of this warrior multitude our troops were defenceless.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

Rather, the more defenceless the greater is the wrong, the shame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Was the wily Rizzo, even in those days, planning to leave Cyprus defenceless?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference

Indeed, no one can fault Sen's commitment to justice for the poor and defenceless in India.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why silence over Kashmir speaks volumes] Reference

• Referee let defenceless fighter continue• Alexander Frenkel wins fight in round seven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enzo Maccarinelli knocked out cold after referee lets Frenkel punch on] Reference

As he stood before the lovely, defenceless girl her very beauty and innocence arraigned him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

Chambersburg was a purely defenceless town with no garrison whatever, and no fortifications; yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

But here the hisser is not so safe, nor the hissee -- to coin a convenient word -- so defenceless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

"I never did trust that nurse," said I. "But to steal the treasured capital of a defenceless infant!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference

There they find their best hiding-places, their surest protection, and their most defenceless victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference

At the same time his brave officers plunged their swords into the bosoms of their defenceless prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

Just as dismayingly, the British, left as well as right, did not leap to help the homeless or defenceless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard] Reference

Slowly and steadily, that strong-minded female wheeled the defenceless man round till he faced the arm-chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Or that, along with remorse there went the image of one Emmy Lou, defenceless, pink-cheeked, and smiling bravely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

In our megrims we have found something whose defenceless condition we think ought to bear the burden of our misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

They never offered a front to large bodies; they would swoop down on a defenceless train, or destroy railroad bridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference

Put away every iniquity; and begin to show mercy to the poor and the defenceless, who have hitherto cried to thee in vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

He was their All, and without Him they were as helpless as little children, as defenceless as lambs in the midst of wolves.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference

In his defenceless and desperate circumstances, such revenge was doubly sweet; and for a while he dwelt on it with pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

Had we fallen into their hands, defenceless, there was but little chance of escaping, so greatly did they outnumber our crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

To sum up: We humbly represent to your Majesty that we, your loyal subjects resident here, are entirely defenceless since -- (1).    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

You have only to call upon society for its aid; it will come but too gladly at your call and help you crush a defenceless woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The Side next the Town is quite defenceless, and the Way into the Castle up a Ladder, on that Side, which draws up, like a Bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations] Reference

I, and several other young men who were as little disposed as myself to allow a defenceless man to be slaughtered, ran toward him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The only result of all their bloody visitations upon a non-resisting people, had been to make defenceless Acadia a neutral province.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

Sterling patent, yet he was heretic to the true faith, and therefore defenceless in an important point against the attacks of an enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

Spaniards with the defenceless state of Frederica, and how easy and practicable it would be to cut him and his small garrison to pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference

The European exodus from all quarters continued, defenceless men and women alike being subjected to insult and ill-treatment by the Boers.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

President has acquired the services of German military officers who will find congenial employment in thus dragooning defenceless citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference