Just the sheer power of his intensely masculine presence was enough to overwhelm her meager defenses.

Rose, in body armor, helmet, and night-vision goggles, was trying to goose the countdown along while marshaling the ship's meager defenses.

The Unity Army had finally seemed to concede that they had no power on the perimeter against the meager defense.

When Rolo attempts to use it, he is only able to erect a meager defense with a number of weak spots.

Before the town's helpless colonists could find any meager defense or shelter, the deep-core aliens launched their retaliation against the whole planet.

Catti-brie's arrow blew right through the meager defense, blew right through the female, and took down the drow behind her as well.

I looked back and the hole was gone, sealed up safely by my meager mental defenses.

But even as the Quadra-Omnius concentrated meager defenses against the Jihad fleet in space, more robots closed in from around the city.

One leg buckling, one lung collapsed, the drow brought his sword horizontally before his face in a meager defense.

Perry considered the question, judging the speed of the other sub and the meager defenses of Omega.