Example Sentences

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It must not be supposed, however, that while the enemy was being punished so severely, we were going scatheless.

From Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Lumley, Savile

Had it not been for them and you together, I would scarce have got off so scatheless as I have done.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

It would be a bonny thing if, by the escape of one ill-doer another was to go scatheless, 83 and the remeid is to summon the principal and put him to outlawry for the non-compearance.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The shock shook the building, as well as our nerves, not a little, though we were of course scatheless.

From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by Davidson, G. F.

But on the face of this man was only a free soldierly indifference to danger, as of one who had passed through many perils and come forth scatheless.

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)