scatheless

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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

Well, well, Martin, I see you did not come out of the fray scatheless; but you are not brought here because you decorated Frank’s ingenuous countenance.

From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis

The God of her faith would keep her scatheless until Peter, the man she loved, came to save her.

From The Vagrant Duke by Gibbs, George

Had it not been for them and you together, I would scarce have got off so scatheless as I have done.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

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