scathe
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I suggest an ibid of historians, a ponder of scientists, a scathe of bureaucrats.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
All these, and the brig herself, I had outlived; and come through these hardships and fearful perils without scathe.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
Like a scathe that admitted no gainsaying, it came from nowhere, struck, without warning, and was gone again unpunished.
From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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