What is "hapless"

Usage examples of "hapless".

God bless this House and the abode of the valiant, and the shelter of the hapless.

I said that I adored her and was the most hapless of men, for being a married man I had no hope of ever being able to clasp her to my arms and cover her with kisses.

Kali was too crippled and toothless to be the child-killer, though Aganippe had once seen the grim old girl gum a hapless intruder half to death.

For the Amar, floating ghosts were the most horrible of monsters, creatures unkillable that sucked the souls from the bodies of helpless, hapless warriors foolish enough to venture within the mists.

But Ava felt that old tug of sorrow for the hapless knight and smiled.

Hapless civilians had been trapped in bombed and burning buildings, had stood in streets watching the possessions of a lifetime burn away, had fled their cities in fear and misery in many places before.

Without bothering to warn Dolabella, he brought the Tenth into the Forum and set them loose on the gangsand hapless Forum frequenters caught in the eye of the storm.

Always waiting for the hapless few, like this poor chumpy kid, to come in with their hopes sky high and their guards down.

He took it for granted that the Jean de Courtois of the marriage certificate was dead, and his heart grieved for the hapless young woman whose aristocratic name was blazoned on that same document.

The Facers also shanghai an assortment of Utopian corpgeeks and hapless bystanders, in order to populate the starship and colonize Yggdrasil.

Our dialogue, or rather my monologue, turned solely on the profound impression she had made on me, on the passion she had inspired, on her beauty, her goodness, the purity of my intentions, and on my need of love, lest I should go down to the grave the most hapless of men.

The rebels wished to have forth from his prison the hapless Ivan Ivanovitz, who had been proclaimed emperor in his cradle, and dethroned by Elizabeth Petrovna.

From an early age Catherine had been looked upon as the future bride of the Duke of Holstein, afterwards the hapless Peter III.

The force of the action only flattened Koa against the ceiling, but the hapless spaceman shot forward head first and landed with a clang against the bulkhead.

Tying it to the painter-ring, he called to the people on shore to pull easily and, himself guiding and holding up the loggy, half-submerged boat, as best he could, it was finally hauled out of deep water and its hapless crew helped ashore.