scatheless

Example Sentences

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

From Misrepresentative Men by Graham, Harry

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

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

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 Strang, Herbert

The shock shook the building, as well as our nerves, not a little, though we were of course scatheless.

From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by Davidson, G. F.