Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Helpless

Helpless as a babe.
—Anonymous

Helpless, as a cat in a trap.
—Anonymous

Helpless as a corpse.
—Anonymous

Helpless as Balaam.
—Anonymous

Helpless as a king of England.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Helpless as an infant caterpillar in a nest of hungry ants.
—James Montgomery Flagg

Helpless as the dead.
—Sir William Schwenk Gilbert

Helpless as a turtle on its back.
—O. Henry

Helpless as a lame beggar.
—Ouida

Helpless and flurried as a fish landed on a grassy bank with a barbed hook through its gills.
—Ouida

Helpless as a ship in stays.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

Helpless, like doves driven headlong down by a murky tempest.
—Virgil

Helpless as a sailor cast on desert rock.
—William Wordsworth

Helpless … as the blind.
—William Wordsworth