Still Pierre continued his silent and upward march, in a way to keep alive a species of trembling hope among those who depended so helplessly upon his intelligence and faith.

She watched him helplessly from where she stood on the porch as he walked across the clearing to his horse.

"How in God's name," said Miss Blake, "shall I get 'em on their chains again?" Sheila stopped her work, and her lips fell helplessly apart.

Remonstrance was met by jeering and threats of violence; so the luckless man stood helplessly under a neighbouring tamarind tree, while his house was reduced to a heap of bamboos and thatch.

He looked up helplessly.

She gave one startled look at them and then at me; her face relaxed from all its quiet lines; she sank on her knees by the bedside, and, burying her head in her arms, cried, and cried, and cried, so helplessly, so utterly without restraint, that I cried, too.

You don't think it is immodest for me to say these things to my husband, Johneven if I have only known him three days?" He answered by crushing her so closely in his arms that for a few moments afterward she lay helplessly on his breast, gasping for breath.

Rockett, who was just now in anguish of lumbago, tried to straighten himself in his chair before replying, but sank helplessly together with a groan.

She looked helplessly round.

At his "Catherine-wheeler" a Cockney might smile, As he tumbles so helplessly back in Bow's lap.

she said helplessly.

The old woman sobbed helplessly and made no answer; on which the girl, with a gesture as simple as it was beautiful, drew the grey head to her shoulder.

On one side of the table rose Lady Dunborough, grim and venomous; on the other the girl stood virtually alonefor the elder woman had fallen to weeping helplessly, and the attorney seemed to be unequal to this new combatant.

Sometimes I am happy enough to think the one; sometimesI think the other' 'It has never struck you,' she said, speaking with her head high, and in her harshest and most scornful tone, 'that I may do neither the one nor the other, but be pleased to kill my time with yousince I must stay here until my lawyer has done his business?' 'Oh!' said Soane, staring helplessly at the angry beauty, 'if that be all' 'That is all!'

" "YesIsuppose so," she murmured helplessly.

" Mrs. Chalk sat back helplessly in her chair and gazed from her husband to Captain Brisket, and from Captain Brisket back to her husband.

Mr. Chalk gazed helplessly ashore.

" Captain Bowers looked at her helplessly.

Miss Drewitt, listening helplessly to this fulsome exchange of compliments, wondered whether they had got to the end.

" Jimmie and I looked at each other helplessly.

The dead man lying in the crushed grasshis arms thrown out helplessly on either side of himthe gloom of the trees all aroundthe murmuring of the waters, where Till was pouring its sluggish flood into the more active swirl and rush of the Tweedthe hot, oppressive air of the nightand the blood on the dry roadall that was what, at Mr. Gilverthwaite's bidding, I had ridden out from Berwick to find in that lonely spot.

I stood helplessly staring at him as he turned up the wick of an oil lamp that stood on a mantelpiece littered with a mess of small things, and he caught a sight of my face when there was more light, and as he shut the door on us he laughedlaughed as if he knew that he had me in a trap.

"He wanted nothing, asked for nothing, rejected food, and refused shelter, and as often as taken in and cared for, he managed to escape, and wander away, feebly and helplessly, from human association and ministration.

You wander helplessly in the road of life until you stumble against a battery; nerved with the shock you are frantic, and rush along wildly until the current received is exhausted, and you lapse into disorganisation.

Away tore the maddened beast, almost unseating his rider, who lost both stirrups at the first frantic bound and clung helplessly to his saddle-pommel while the horse carried him away like the wind.