scatheless
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Dennis had come scatheless through the action at sea, but now he felt a burning pang in his forearm, and saw that the sleeve of his doublet was singed.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
He had passed through Spurling's temptation scatheless, therefore he could afford him tenderness.
From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Coningsby Dawson
"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 George Gibbs
Diadyomene!' swept down on white wings, went before, shifted, wheeled; while, so guided, reefs and breakers threatened close on every hand, fell behind and left him scatheless.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
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 William Henry Hamilton Rogers
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