Citations:helped


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * This put Christian more to it than anything that he met with before, even to think that he should now blaspheme him that he loved so much before; yet, if he could have helped it, he would not have done it; but he had not the discretion either to stop his ears, or to know from whence these blasphemies came.
 * For it happened that there was then in that place, one Vain-hope, a ferryman, that with his boat helped him over; so he, as the other I saw, did ascend the hill, to come up to the gate, only he came alone; neither did any man meet him with the least encouragement.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He broke down all at once. He couldn't help it. If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they were.