scathe

Example Sentences

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I suggest an ibid of historians, a ponder of scientists, a scathe of bureaucrats.

From Time Magazine Archive

He cast me out with scathe and scorn, And from my side my wife was torn.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Nor scathe had he, nor harm, nor dread, But, the same couch beneath, Lay a gaunt wolf, all torn and dead, Tremendous still in death.

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth

Out of the night Crying to fright The earth he swoops to spoil— There is furious scathe in the whirl of his wrath, In his path There is misery and moil.

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young

It does not fear satire or scathe From Minos, though knowing and nobby, And certainly won't pin its faith, To the Bench's pet fetish, the Bobby.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 by Various