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

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

But ill tongues would fall hurtless were there no believers to give them credit; as robbers could not continue to pilfer were there no receivers of stolea goods.

From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

They had him stand in the Peace Stead and they brought against him all the things that had sworn to leave him hurtless.

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy

If we could once leave it to each other to give what honour is due; knowing that honour demanded is as worthless as insult undeserved is hurtless!

From Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by MacDonald, George