scathe

Example Sentences

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I suggest an ibid of historians, a ponder of scientists, a scathe of bureaucrats.

From Time Magazine Archive

So great was the scathe done that day that Tristrem and Ganhardin were forced once more to fly to Brittany, where in an adventure Tristrem received an arrow in his old wound.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis

Since that time, its scattered beams, refracted by broader surfaces, have, nevertheless, continued to scathe wherever they have fallen.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.

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

Thy tale shall nothing scathe thee.—Tell the whole.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes