Caesar attempted to get away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell; the men continued stabbing him as he lay defenseless on the lower steps of the portico.

From the Carpathians, Batu Khan reported a similar unexpected success, and now the messengers between the two groups carried the exultant word that Europe lay defenseless.

Scotland lay defenseless and Edward set about amalgamating her into England.

The state lay defenseless before internal and external threats, as the Byzantine army had been reduced to a shadow of its former self.

But it then occurred to me that I knew not where this man's remaining conspirators were, and that Elias lay defenseless upstairs.

A lesser woman might have killed him while he lay defenseless in her bed, but not Chenaya.

Numb, he lay defenseless for an instant.

Long he lay powerless and defenseless.

In the words of Íslendinga saga, after he had run out from Flugumýrarbrenna, being aged, he stumbled and lay defenseless:

However, she was never to finish this as, on 5 December 1940, Luftwaffe bombers struck Portsmouth while Cameron lay defenseless in drydock no. 8.