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

How the tall old pines, withered by the biting scathe of Eld, rise to the view, afar and near; white shafts, bottomed in darkness, and standing like the serried spears of an innumerable army!

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

“Heathen wight, and Christian knight,    I would fight with glad and fain; Only not with Verland’s son,    For from him I scathe must gain.”

From Ulf Van Yern and Other Ballads by Borrow, George Henry

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

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

This was not done without scathe, however; Brian's men loosed their muskets, and one by one the heavy bastards thundered out across the snow, though the result was hard to see in the darkness.

From Nuala O'Malley by Bedford-Jones, H.