scathe
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I suggest an ibid of historians, a ponder of scientists, a scathe of bureaucrats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then stood up Gudbrand of the Dales and spake: 'Much scathe have we gotten now in our god; but, as he cannot help himself, we will now believe in the God in whom thou believest.'
From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)
"But when the master of the house came and saw our clerk, and heard how it had all happened, he said,— "'Harm watches while men sleep; but man's scathe is the worst scathe.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
It does not fear satire or scathe From Minos, though knowing and nobby, And certainly won't pin its faith, To the Bench's pet fetish, the Bobby.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 by Various
As a mother her child they love it; Guarding it well from scathe and loss They have stamped its side with a big Red Cross, And the white flag waves above it.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 by Various
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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