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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Powerless
 
  Powerless as an infant.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Powerless as grubs.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Powerless as stubble exposed to the draught of a furnace.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  3
  Powerless … as a stone.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  4
            Powerless as the wind
That passeth idly by.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  5
 
 
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