scatheless

Example Sentences

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Nor did the Allied planes come off scatheless.

From Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam by Young, Clarence

All the time the devilish conviction grew that if he persisted in this flummery he might emerge scatheless from a ghastly ordeal.

From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis

She forgot for once to look with a smiling face upon the passing storm, in which she was too suddenly caught to escape altogether scatheless.

From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

It would be a bonny thing if, by the escape of one ill-doer another was to go scatheless, 83 and the remeid is to summon the principal and put him to outlawry for the non-compearance.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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