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"Oh, Tommy, let me up, you wretch!" Phyllis struggled, but she was quite powerless. "Janet, come and help me," she called. "Tom is killing me." "What good do you think Janet can do?" Tom inquired calmly, as Janet could be heard running down the stairs. "I don't know," Phyllis confessed, "but she will do something. Oh, Janet, save me! Look what Tommy is doing to me."
The officers were powerless to enforce discipline; when these breaks happened the column was forced to come to a halt until every man had filled his canteen and here is one, among the many trivial causes, that brought about the reverses of McDowell's masterly campaign. A march that ought to have been made in twenty-four hours, or thirty at the utmost, took more than three days!
A swallow does not rise by displacing a volume of air whose specific gravity is greater than its own, but by using the atmosphere as a fulcrum. Otherwise it must possess a bulk which its tiny wings would be powerless to impel against the opposing breeze. Mr.
We can arouse the indifferent to action; we can enkindle in the drunkard aspirations for a better life than that of debauchery; we hope, in time, by constant agitation, to change the social customs of the day. But against the influence of the licensed dram-shop we are powerless. We have no ability to cope with this most formidable enemy of virtue, prosperity and good order.
"By delay, the enemy will relatively gain upon you that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone. And once more let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this.
Yes." "You really cared for me?" "I do still." A flicker of the old malice lighted his face. "But you won't let me kiss you? Why?" She looked up into his eyes. "I feel as powerless with you as I was before. You could always have had your will. Once I would not have blamed you. Now it would be cowardly because I have forgiven myself " "I won't disturb your vows," he said seriously.
Very slowly at first the wheels revolved, and the car moved straight backwards as if pushed by an unseen hand. Hugh realised the danger in a moment. The road curved sharply not a dozen yards behind him, and at that curve was the sheer precipice of the cliff. He was powerless to apply the brakes, and he could not even throw himself out.
But the yielding of the wolf is only momentary; up up it springs again and away, away it careers, more madly, more desperately, more ferociously, if possible, than before. And the snake? Oh! poor, weak and powerless was even that dread reptile of forty feet in length, when combated with a monster lashed on and also protected by invisible fiends.
If, instead of playing at sieges, Charles Albert had cut off these reinforcements, Radetsky would have been rendered powerless, and the campaign would have had another termination. Never was there a war in which the adoption of Napoleon's system of crushing his opponents one by one, when he could not outnumber them if united, was more clearly indicated.
Something they knew had happened of most dire import to them, some catastrophe which they were powerless to prevent, which they could not even guess. But when a few weeks later there came even into those remote villages the news of the fall of Mandalay, of the surrender of the king, of the 'great treachery, they knew that this was what the Nats had been sorrowing over.
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