Frere struck his fist upon the thwart in sheer impotence of rage.

She sat down in the grass and cried a little out of sheer impotence.

A-a-ah! he screamed, incapable of speech, shaking his fist, through sheer impotence of throat and larynx.

Now he seeth the shape of wealth as poverty itself, and the essence of freedom as sheer impotence.

Inside, Tregellan shrugged his shoulders: not impatiently, or angrily, but in sheer impotence; as one who gave it up.

At last, in sheer impotence, he relapsed into silence, waving his hand to Lorry to indicate that he might resume.