scatheless
Example Sentences
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Diadyomene!' swept down on white wings, went before, shifted, wheeled; while, so guided, reefs and breakers threatened close on every hand, fell behind and left him scatheless.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
Dennis had come scatheless through the action at sea, but now he felt a burning pang in his forearm, and saw that the sleeve of his doublet was singed.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
It is not necessary to state that to have passed the ordeal of so severe a cross-examination scatheless, needed no small amount of courage, intelligence, and ready shrewdness on the part of the witness.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
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 G. F. Davidson
But on the face of this man was only a free soldierly indifference to danger, as of one who had passed through many perils and come forth scatheless.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
