scatheless

Example Sentences

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He was pensioned after the Restoration, and the protection of the king and the Earl of Devonshire kept him scatheless, if ever there was any real danger.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

The Savoyard gentleman is entirely and unexceptionably orthodox in religion; it may be doubted whether a severe inquisition in matters of Sensibility would let him off scatheless.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

The shock shook the building, as well as our nerves, not a little, though we were of course scatheless.

From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by Davidson, G. F.

Ships, gliding seawards, scatheless that endure High seas, excessive storms, that sailors dread, Experience, ere gaining destined shores, A rougher tempest grasping doomèd dead.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

Alas! no ingentia corpora lay there, and on following their tracks for some distance, it was quite clear that both stags had escaped scatheless.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.