scatheless

Example Sentences

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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

Jesus therefore interferes, reminding His captors that they had themselves said that He was the object of this midnight raid, and that the disciples must therefore be scatheless.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus

He had passed through Spurling's temptation scatheless, therefore he could afford him tenderness.

From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Dawson, Coningsby

"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

But not thus comparatively scatheless, did the great actors in and promoters of this sanguinary drama, come off from the effects of the internecine strife.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton