helm
helmless
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a word derived from
helm.
Example Sentences
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It can be tempting to wonder if a military branch really needs its commandant, if a helmless Marine Corps really is a crisis.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023
He quoted the swashbuckling versifier François Villon: To Messire Noel, named the neat By those who love him, I bequeath A helmless ship, a houseless street, A wordless book, a swordless sheath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Balance is everything, riding out time like a helmless sheep-boat, keel to hellward, mast upreared to prick out heaven’s eye.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Though brave the heart, the brain Swam in an ecstasy of wildering light— A helmless boat upon a troubled sea.
From The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses by J. C. Manning
A helmless wreck upon the tide— An earthquake's ruin wrapped in gloom— A gnarled oak blasted in its pride— Are feeble emblems of my doom.
From Poems by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
