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unharming

  • a word derived from harm.
    harm
    noun
    physical injury or mental damage; hurt.

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From this time an inviolable peace filled the lowly heart of the oppressed one; life's uttermost woes fell from him unharming.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

So short now seemed the remaining voyage of life,—so near, so vivid, seemed eternal blessedness,—that life's uttermost woes fell from him unharming.

From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Thereupon Longstreet fell back towards Virginia, and came to a resting-place midway, where he afterward lay unharmed and unharming for many months.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse

To be let alone—to be suffered to escape in our own way, unharming, unharmed, through the dim avenues of life—was assuredly all that we asked from man.

From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms

No," said he, "dangerous tools they were, but without the workman they may rust unharming.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton