Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Helpless
Helpless as a babe.
—Anonymous
Helpless, as a cat in a trap.
—Anonymous
Helpless as a corpse.
—Anonymous
Helpless as Balaam.
—Anonymous
Helpless as a king of England.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Helpless as an infant caterpillar in a nest of hungry ants.
—James Montgomery Flagg
Helpless as the dead.
—Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
Helpless as a turtle on its back.
—O. Henry
Helpless as a lame beggar.
—Ouida
Helpless and flurried as a fish landed on a grassy bank with a barbed hook through its gills.
—Ouida
Helpless as a ship in stays.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Helpless, like doves driven headlong down by a murky tempest.
—Virgil
Helpless as a sailor cast on desert rock.
—William Wordsworth
Helpless … as the blind.
—William Wordsworth