Example Sentences

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The snow struck the bottle, but the unharming bullet was buried half an inch to the left.

From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister, Owen

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

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

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 Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

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 Mee, Arthur

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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher