Photographers pointed long lenses at any hapless child who happened to wander into their line of fire.

"Would you shoot a hapless child just on suspicion?"

She was Eve one moment and a hapless child the next, without a hint of melodrama.

We're going to arrange a marriage for our hapless children.

Relatives were trying to kidnap the hapless child but he fought them off with great fervor.

The activists and the reformers have had no time to think about the hapless children of broken marriages.

Then, like a hapless child at the end of a game of crack-the-whip, the vessel shot outward again, away from the newborn star.

To this punishment was added no food to eat until the hapless child improved his pickpocketing technique or simply starved to death.

Such a tangled coil enmeshing all these four hapless children!

With some difficulty, she made herself look down at the hapless child.