hurtless

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Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm, it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lady Allonby meanwhile regarded him, as she might have looked at a frog or a hurtless snake.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

And the strong lance of Justice hurtless breaks.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)

Come, as you have played Despair with me I will play the part of Una with you and bring you hurtless from his dark cavern.

From Mathilda by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Sick sweat succeeds; he drops at ev'ry pore; With driving dust his cheeks are pasted o'er; Shorter and shorter ev'ry gasp he takes; And vain efforts and hurtless blows he makes.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil