scatheless

Example Sentences

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"He's asking for Shad," she repeated to Brierly, unaware that her cousin, like his Biblical namesake, had come scatheless through the fiery furnace.

From The Vagrant Duke by Gibbs, George

Small wonder he thinks so when you remember how he brought our men back scatheless with the spoil of Castac.

From The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts by Austin, Mary Hunter

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 Strang, Herbert

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

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.