Voorbeelden van hapless

• Hapless borderliners were also caught up in the closure.

• Thus, the hapless crier, for one unlucky moment, became the incarnation of a detested policy and paid the price for decisions made by superiors.

• Up-country traders and porters were makers of their own destiny, and were not hapless casualties of change.

• Usually the ' boy ' would lie in wait, often in a tree, to capture hapless ' smugglers ' for surrender to the soldiers or customs officials.

• The occasional clarity achieved by the artist was never achieved in concert by the hapless subjects of modern painting.

• This will no doubt sound like an astonishing claim to those acquainted with the passenger pigeon's hapless history.

• Battlefields are dangerous places, for patients as well as hapless civilians in war.

• Yes, the doctor here is the stolid skipper while the layman is the hapless landlubber.