As the plant slumped defencelessly, Daphe severed six of the great transparent pods that were to be their coffins.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOTHOUSE]

We crept on defencelessly, slowly, among the stones, feeling like sardines in a doomed tin, as the bombs fell closer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

Your reality as more desirable than mine the same dead end you regret and when you are here, why point defencelessly backward this under the trees the white pavilion what ploughed furrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems - 4] Reference

Further to these objects, there was a large collection of glass jars in which wombs and ovaries, drenched in spirits, plus the odd female breast were preserved, even an aborted fœtus of a girl was floating, curled up defencelessly, in such a jar of yellowed glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

And there was one who, delicately and unmistakably and defencelessly, showed me that I was not indifferent to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference

The innocent people, who die defencelessly during riots, often look to their governments for rescue; they discover they are on their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

The ignorance of others as to any such law or principle in their own case did not convince him that there was no such law or principle; only it was there (he thought) working unconsciously, and therefore in a way defencelessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference

As most of central London for some defencelessly bizarre reason watched The Kooks on the main stage, to the sound of whiney, tinny teeny-bopper indie schmindie nonsense, Liverpool's second best export showed their legendary colours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference