Example Sentences

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Still, by Acheron stream, Terrible Deities throned Sit, and eye grimly the victim unscourged.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

Fernando had been on board the frigate for more than two years and remained unscourged.

From Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established by Musick, John R. (John Roy)

And he found it an ideal place for literary work, restful and remote, 'where one can live unscourged by Kingsley's "wind of God".'

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry

I had now been on board the frigate upward of a year, and remained unscourged; the ship was homeward-bound, and in a few weeks, at most, I would be a free man.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman