scatheless
Example Sentences
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The Tongans lost fourteen killed and thirty wounded; the Mbauans, who had been mere spectators, escaped almost scatheless.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
"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
Before a man could turn completely, All scatheless shone the offspring's head, The apple lay divided neatly!
From Misrepresentative Men by Harry Graham
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 Clarence Young
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
