Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Powerless

Powerless as an infant.
—Anonymous

Powerless as grubs.
—Anonymous

Powerless as stubble exposed to the draught of a furnace.
—Charlotte Brontë

Powerless … as a stone.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Powerless as the wind
That passeth idly by.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley