During his convalescence, he falls in love twice and marries the wrong woman, a wan defenseless creature who expresses herself mainly by sighing and weeping.

She was a new, strange, defenseless creature, very crude and raw, beginning all over again.

At last he had found nature's weakest and most defenseless creature--in a moment more Numa would dine.

Ethan, the 5-year-old, could not understand why the "bad guys" were killing these defenseless creatures.

They attempt to finish it off with a shovel, but could not bring themselves to harm the defenseless creature.

A defenseless creature.

The Darters had forgotten about Leviathan in their blind hunger for this small, almost defenseless creature.

Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures.

He hated the idea that such a defenseless creature should have to suffer, especially if there were something he could do about it.

There was a fear among the Trill that any aliens posed a potential threat to the symbionts, who were fragile, defenseless creatures.