Cappadocia especially was the object of his attacks, and, defenceless as it was, suffered destructive blows from its too potent neighbour.
The mass of the defeated army threw away their arms and sued for quarter; but Caesar's soldiers were no longer the same who had readily refrained from battle before Ilerda and honourably spared the defenceless at Pharsalus.
From the hour I quitted my father's house to the present, I had seen nothing but what to me appeared the sufferings of a poor, defenceless people at the hands of wanton tyranny and outrage.
Some midnight burning, some savage murder, some cowardly attack on unarmed and defenceless people,--these are our campaigns here.
They might fire one volley at charging cavalry, but long before they could be ready for a second, the horsemen would be cutting down their defenceless ranks.
Presently the hail of Lancastrian arrows slackened, as the supply ran short, and Falconbridge once more sent his archers forward, and so galled the defenceless enemy that they advanced to come to close quarters.
They fancied they would soon have the nation before them the nudum et coecum corpus of Sylla's description--defenceless and blind.
Do, in the name of Sport, which every sound-minded Englishman loves, after all, await a fitter opportunity for molesting a defenceless Woman.
Or else," broke in Lord Stour hotly, "surely the watchmen will come anon and disperse that rabble ere it vents its spite upon a defenceless Woman!
It is unworthy even of you to insult the misfortunes of a defenceless woman.
When we looked at our seaports, and saw their defenceless condition, he thought it evident sufficient attention had not been paid to them, knowing that war might, at least, be a possible event.
We can feel for the misery of plundered towns, the conflagration of defenceless villages, and the devastation of cultured fields.
Providence has placed their richest and most defenceless possessions at our door--has obliged their most precious commerce to pass, as it were, in review before us.
Men thought that the unsettled state of France made war probable, and they were alarmed at the defenceless condition of England.
The very essence of slavery is, to put a man defencelessinto the hands of another.
There is one case, in which God puts a human being wholly defenceless into another's hands.
Do you believe them capable of attacking a private carriage and carrying off a solitary, defenceless woman?
Thus while they were formidable abroad by their fleets and mercenary armies, they were weak and defenceless at home.
The defenceless friars remained, however, and at Chiribichi the priest, while vesting to say mass, and the lay-brother were both killed by the people of the cacique Maraguey and the convent was burned.
The march of a hostile army upon a defenceless city could hardly have stirred up greater excitement than the arrival of this aged Bishop with his four humble companions.
No one expounded a fact better than Fabre; no one explained it so fully and so clearly.
This, then, is the reason for this assassination, in open day, of a defenceless prisoner!
The town has been a helpless, defenceless thing, from which these harpies have picked whatever they could lay their talons on!
No news was to be had; but it was ascertained that Egypt was practically defenceless against any renewed attempts of the French.
He recognized, moreover, the great significance of their inactivity during the three weeks they had the Windward Islands, if not all the West Indies, defenceless before them.
Then the besiegers varied the entertainment by directing at the defencelessones a pom-pom.
By one flash, I saw Persians with uplifted swords, attacking defenceless Russians, rushing from their beds: by another, the poor villagers were discovered flying from their smoking cottages in utter dismay.
Again a little time, and after Heime had performed wonderful feats of valour, his sword broke, and he stood defenceless before the angry king.
I cannot leave you here to die of hunger or fall a defenceless prey to the wild beasts.
At last the Frisians made a viking raid on Gothland, burning defenceless granges and cottages.
The dwarf was now in his power, but Siegfried could not kill a defenceless foe.
The giant now fell upon him, kneaded his defenceless body both with his hands and his knees, and then dragged him away into his dismal den.
Dankwart made his way fighting to the hall, his armour bespattered with blood; but the defenceless serving-men were slain to a man.
The combat raged long, but at last Wittich's sword broke, and he stood defenceless before the king.
Each might protect the other, but they are alldefenceless at the same time.
Many of the latter were with young and defenceless against the pitiless waves; they were cast upon the shore to die.
This, he contends, should ever be the object of satire, because a man must not war against the defenceless and dead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defenceless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
