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

He was pensioned after the Restoration, and the protection of the king and the Earl of Devonshire kept him scatheless, if ever there was any real danger.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, 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

Yet still There is a virtue, given to make its guiles Shrink into ruin, like a withered leaf, And pass the spirit scatheless.

From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard

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