scatheless

Example Sentences

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Nor did the Allied planes come off scatheless.

From Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam by Young, Clarence

Before a man could turn completely, All scatheless shone the offspring's head, The apple lay divided neatly!

From Misrepresentative Men by Graham, Harry

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

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 Savoyard gentleman is entirely and unexceptionably orthodox in religion; it may be doubted whether a severe inquisition in matters of Sensibility would let him off scatheless.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George