scatheless
- a word derived from scathe.
Example Sentences
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The Savoyard gentleman is entirely and unexceptionably orthodox in religion; it may be doubted whether a severe inquisition in matters of Sensibility would let him off scatheless.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
He it was for the love of whom men had laid down their lives like water, only that Alexander Peden might go scatheless and speak his Master's will.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
All the time the devilish conviction grew that if he persisted in this flummery he might emerge scatheless from a ghastly ordeal.
From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis
Yet still There is a virtue, given to make its guiles Shrink into ruin, like a withered leaf, And pass the spirit scatheless.
From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard
Nor did the Allied planes come off scatheless.
From Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam by Young, Clarence
