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Sir Robert Croyland himself was displeased; but Zara was in a degree a spoiled child, and had established for herself a privilege of doing what she liked, unscolded.

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

No one knows how great a trial it was to her when she thought of Sally, unchecked and unscolded for three hours every morning. 

From My Lady Ludlow by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

The only bright notes among all these drab multitudes were the little girls in their variegated kimonos, who fluttered in and out of the entrances, and who played unscolded on the footpaths.

From Kimono by Paris, John

They had reached the party by now, and many a glance of reawakened interest was levelled at the younger of the truants, but in the slight stir attendant on the Colonel’s departure he escaped unscolded.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram