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Parini loved spending time with the worldly, woundless Vidal, and he seems eager to perpetuate Vidal’s myths about himself.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2015

He could get on pretty well even without his claws, usually striking his prey down with a blow, woundless; but he could by no means get on without his teeth.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John

Rascality attends him like a shade, But closes, woundless, o'er my baffled blade, Its limbs unsevered, spirit undismayed.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

Who but a god goes woundless all his way?….

From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Murray, Gilbert

"So, haply slander— Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank, Transports his poison'd shot—may miss our name, And hit the woundless air."

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman