scatheless

Example Sentences

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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 Davidson, G. F.

The Savoyard gentleman is entirely and unexceptionably orthodox in religion; it may be doubted whether a severe inquisition in matters of Sensibility would let him off scatheless.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

The scurvy here, as with all the parties, attacked the men, leaving the officers scatheless.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick

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 Smiles, Samuel

She is perfectly right in holding that, having me prisoner here, it is impossible to allow me to go scatheless.

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert