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defenceless in the path of the running sea,
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He was utterly defenceless - putty awaiting
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But men in this defenceless state naturally content themselves with their necessary subsistence ; because, to acquire more, might only tempt the injustice of their oppressors
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As long as the whole, or the greater part of the gold which the first adventurers imported into Europe was got by so very easy a method as the plundering of the defenceless natives, it was not perhaps very difficult to ,pay even this heavy tax ; but when the natives were once fairly stript of all that they had, which, in St
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But those nations were by no means so weak and defenceless as the miserable and helpless Americans ; and in proportion to the natural fertility of the countries which they inhabited, they were, besides, much more populous
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Such a clergy, when attacked by a set of popular and bold, though perhaps stupid and ignorant enthusiasts, feel themselves as perfectly defenceless as the indolent, effeminate, and full fed nations of the southern parts of Asia, when they were invaded by the active, hardy, and hungry Tartars of the north
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valiantly gave to defenceless strangers
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His punch was lethal, one walnut was enough to stun the nearest battleship into defenceless surrender
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Yet Tommy was utterly defenceless when Johnny made one of his sudden attacks
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Defenceless and blinded by the sudden blow, Reno was
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Like all hunters, these ferals prefer the weak, the maimed, the old, the young, the scared, the defenceless
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She couldn’t catch her breath, grasping at the corners of her thoughts before her terror left her defenceless
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, the culture of killing the defenceless and the culture that lampoons serious punishment) are against sound Judeo-Christianity
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wasn’t enough that I was locked in my quarters, defenceless and
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While the adults slumped over after-dinner drinks I’d suffer my cousin’s gloating about his sparkling new BSA bicycle with six-speed Sturmey-Archer hub gears, or a top-of-the-range pump-action air gun with which he shot a few defenceless birds
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There marines would be defenceless on the
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Archive photographs showed starving peasants, worker demonstrations, armed revolts, assassinations, cavalry charges into crowds of defenceless men, women and children, mass executions, and trains loaded with white-faced hungry people being transported to exile in the remote regions of Siberia
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"Except for the servants, the house is defenceless
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you treat defenceless elderly patients in the middle of the night when you think
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There was no gun in the house and her daughters were all young and defenceless
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literally helpless and defenceless
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Without canines a chimpanzee is defenceless in the wild
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These children are small, defenceless and
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weak and defenceless prey would not have caused this kind of
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The mutilated Slow Loris can never return to the wild, as it is rendered defenceless
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“Haven’t you got a boyfriend at home you could beat up instead of taking it out on a defenceless photocopier?” he joked
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Takina and Pussy were pretty much defenceless up here
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We’re all a bit jumpy, because we’re practically defenceless without
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“We are all upset that you have killed a defenceless friend
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clown, he had led it straight to an unconscious and defenceless Amazon
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Okay, these men may have been homeless, and they may (possibly) have been lepers, but that did NOT give them the right to do that to a poor defenceless animal, especially her poor defenceless animal
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on his own, defenceless
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was defenceless and in need of care, she easily showed affection
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He believes it is a law: the defenceless and
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‘How about when you’re there, I act like the defenceless woman who needs her man?’ I grinned, and he gave me a strained smile in return
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But again nothing happened, they were defenceless against the slaughter
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They withdrew from God, the Source of Mercy and Goodness and indulged in this world and its passing desires: they followed the whims of their spirits, stripping their humanity layer by layer till their hearts became as hard as rock or iron, feeling no sympathy with anyone, even a helpless pauper or a defenceless animal
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Caramarin leaned out and fired his piece at the saloon to let them know he was not defenceless
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I hardly liked to look at them, they were so defenceless, and I picked up a book and tried to read; but I couldn't stop my eyes from wandering over the top of it to the sofa every few minutes, and always I saw the same picture of profound repose
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She thought, I could see, that I was practising a repulsive parsimony on defenceless guests
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Besides, she was too completely sorry for him, standing there defenceless, all his fine words and eloquence silenced, to resent anything
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The indignities of age! Impossible, really, to believe in the serene and calm and bright sort; and in that case had she not better be very kind to the poor old image of her own future, just as she hoped there would be someone to be very kind to her when she too was defenceless?
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The old lady, however, wasn't at all defenceless, and would intensely have objected if she had known Fanny was preparing to be kind
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If it had been a battle to the end, that would have been different, survival, but not this killing of a defenceless creature at his feet
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Till I have lit a candle, how can I remember that I do not believe in ghosts, and in nameless hideousnesses infinitely more frightful than ghosts? But what courage is needed to sit up in all the solid, pressing blackness, and stretch out one defenceless hand into it to feel about for the matches, appalled by the echoing noises the search produces, cold with fear that the hand may touch something unknown and terrible
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citizens are now defenceless against them
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Don't you see you are tempting people who know she is defenceless to steal it from her? Perhaps even murder her? I saved her from that--you did not reckon with me, you see
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" And adding to that, again before he could speak, "Unless it's for the fun of hunting down a defenceless quarry
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With it malfunctioning, we're defenceless
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“It means that whoever is out there chose not to harm us while we were defenceless, but to let us go,” she said
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What if it was a bear crashing through the undergrowth? What would they be able to do? For all intents and purposes the children were defenceless
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And in whose control she was herself defenceless
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It rained until the early hours of the morning and the wind did not let up, the thin streams of mist stabbing into the hut like daggers searching for the hearts of defenceless victims
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He appeared to be ignoring the fact that she was naked and defenceless and completely at his mercy
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It was therefore not surprising either that there was a view held by some that the murders might have been committed by a young person, or perhaps even a gang of youths who had decided for some unknown reason to pray on defenceless women
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One fighter landed an elbow to the side of his opponent’s temple, which stunned the other fighter and allowed blow after blow to be thrown against the now defenceless man’s head, he was finished him off with a viscous roundhouse kick
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want it slipping out into the Ganga, leaving her defenceless
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These voiceless and defenceless victims often died in the most horrendous and cruel manner, that one could not conclude that some people were demonically evil
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To Ariella's horror Karlov didn't stop, he raised his sword over the defenceless Felix
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law that is in place serves to protect the rich and the powerful by denying the poor and the defenceless
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defenceless little Universe and force it to comply with Newton once more
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“You realise you’re completely defenceless now,” Proud said as they sat down
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Unarmed and defenceless, Loofah hurried onwards through the dark corridor between the tall hedges and overhanging trees, as luxury cars glided up and down the hill, watchful and threatening, patrolling their territory
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He felt defenceless
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So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that not until long afterwards, when France and she were far apart, did she know that eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace; that four days and nights had been darkened by this deed of horror; and that the air around her had been tainted by the slain
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"That in my own house I persecuted a defenceless girl and 'insulted her with my infamous proposals'--is that it? (I am anticipating you
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The fact was that up to the last moment he had never expected such an ending; he had been overbearing to the last degree, never dreaming that two destitute and defenceless women could escape from his control
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Don Quixote was on foot with his horse unbridled and his lance leaning against a tree, and in short completely defenceless; he thought it best therefore to fold his arms and bow his head and reserve himself for a more favourable occasion and opportunity
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And no one thought of the homely expedient of dropping a simple, unpretending rope-fender between the destructive stern and the defenceless side!
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In his somewhat defenceless state a stray thought, wandering through the dimensions in search of a mind to harbour it, slid into his brain
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As this vision of the child's future rose before him, Owen resolved that it should never be! He would not leave them alone and defenceless in the midst of
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You had not your little wits sharpened by their intriguing against you, suppressed and defenceless, under the mask of sympathy and pity and what not that is soft and soothing
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Now she was virtually defenceless
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She was completely defenceless, and she knew that if he slashed at her with the return stroke she would be killed
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"That in my own house I persecuted a defenceless girl and 'insulted her with my infamous proposals'—is that it? (I am anticipating you
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She knew that it was all sentiment, all baseless impressibility, which had caused her to read the scene as her own condemnation; nevertheless she could not get over it; she could not contravene in her own defenceless person all those untoward omens
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“Would ye kill this defenceless Wench, then?” cried he, ripping open the remaining woollen Cloth that conceal’d her coffee-colour’d Breasts with their Nipples the Colour of Chocolate
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So he cast his eye on the neighbouring state of Kuwait – small, vulnerable, defenceless, and sitting on some of the world’s largest reserves of oil
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" He told her that when they had shot the wallabies to send the sample skins to Cairns for her they had shot a doe with a joey, and rather than leave the small defenceless creature to die they had taken it home to rear
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Then they will be defenceless
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The real soldiers gazed in horror on these unfortunate warriors, their sunken cheeks, the earthy colour of their countenances, their straggling beards; defenceless, weaponless, jostling one another like a herd of cattle, their heads hanging down and their eyes cast upon the ground
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‘That in my own house I persecuted a defenceless girl and ‘insulted her with my infamous proposals’—is that it?
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Burdovsky must be a simple-minded man, quite defenceless, and an easy tool in the hands of rogues
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He is an innocent man, deceived by everyone! A defenceless victim, who deserves indulgence! Secondly, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, in whose hands I had placed the matter, had his first interview with me barely an hour ago
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We tricked you, a weak defenceless old man, we tricked you (as Mr
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All her movements seemed somehow irregular, at times slow, smooth, and even dignified, at times childishly hasty; and yet, at the same time, there was a sort of timid humility in her gestures, something tremulous and defenceless, though it neither desired nor asked for protection
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From these talks and writings there will, in their opinion, come this result, that the governments will cease drafting soldiers, on whom their whole power is based, but will listen to their speeches and will dismiss their soldiers, will remain defenceless, not only against their neighbours, but even against their subjects,—like robbers who, having bound defenceless men, for the purpose of robbing them, upon hearing speeches about the pain caused to the bound men by the rope, should immediately set them free
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And this is not enough: lately the German Emperor stated more definitely the significance and the calling of a soldier, when distinguishing, thanking, and rewarding a soldier for having shot a defenceless prisoner, who had attempted to run away
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Then they put up a gallows and with the help of ropes choke to death a few defenceless people, as has many times been done in Russia and as is being done, and must be done where the public structure is based on violence
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" And this father, who has been assured that he is a special, exclusive servant of Christ, who for the most part does not himself see the deception under which he is, enters into the room where the accepted recruits are waiting, puts on a gold-embroidered apron, draws his hair out from underneath it, opens the very Gospel in which taking an oath is prohibited, lifts up a cross, the very cross on which Christ was crucified for not doing what this His imaginary servant orders to be done, and puts it on the pulpit, and all these defenceless and deceived lads repeat after him the lie which he pronounces boldly and by habit
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They know that it is a shame to appear after the torture or murder of defenceless men in the presence of their fiancées or wives, whom they treat with a show of tenderness
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The power of the governments has now for a long time ceased to be based on force, as it was based in those times when one nationality conquered another and by force of arms held it in subjection, or when the rulers, amidst a defenceless people, maintained separate armed troops of janissaries, opríchniks, or guardsmen
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Money is an inoffensive means of exchange when it is not collected while loaded guns are directed from the sea-shore against the defenceless inhabitants