strengthless

He stretched out to gather more, trying to hold it, to capture it as it slipped away, leaving him strengthless as he slid to his knees on the kitchen tiles, toppling into a black velvet void.

Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

He stretched out to gather more, trying to hold it, to capture it as it slipped away, leaving him strengthless as he slid to his knees on the kitchen tiles, toppling into a black velvet void.

Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

He stretched out to gather more, trying to hold it, to capture it as it slipped away, leaving him strengthless as he slid to his knees on the kitchen tiles, toppling into a black velvet void.

Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

Dee would scream a little, always eyes on the worm, and run slowly, as if strengthless, a panicked smile on her lips.

A memory of worms 2010

And he came forth from the hall with wearied knees and sat on the threshold of the courtyard; and a dark stupor covered him, and it seemed that the earth reeled round beneath his feet, and he lay in a strengthless trance, speechless.

The Argonautica 2008

But even as some huge pine, high up on the mountains, which woodmen have left half hewn through by their sharp axes when they returned from the forest — at first it shivers in the wind by night, then at last snaps at the stump and crashes down; so Talos for a while stood on his tireless feet, swaying to and fro, then at last, all strengthless, fell with a mighty thud.

The Argonautica 2008

During this horrible moment, I kicked at him with strengthless legs and made a hoarse noise, not yet quite a scream.

Orphans of Chaos 2005

He woke in the morning so unrefreshed and strengthless that he sent for the doctor.

Indian Summer of a Forsyte 2004

He was drowsing, white and strengthless, when she heard the

The Silver Spoon 2004

Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb,

The First part of King Henry the Sixth 2004