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.
