scatheless

Example Sentences

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The Spaniards, perceiving this, brought their guns over to the sea side, but the pirates, being favoured by this loss of time and also with a good breeze, escaped almost scatheless.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick

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 Housman, Clemence

Ships, gliding seawards, scatheless that endure High seas, excessive storms, that sailors dread, Experience, ere gaining destined shores, A rougher tempest grasping doomèd dead.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

The scurvy here, as with all the parties, attacked the men, leaving the officers scatheless.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick

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 Thomson, Basil