hurtless

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Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm, it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The world's scornful darts fall hurtless upon the shield of him, armed by parental hand for life's battle with the weapons of idealism.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen

Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

When one is dead, stones strike the soft of one's throat and fall soft away, one is hurtless.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

I became at length so accustomed to their hurtless menaces that I fell to beguiling the way with the invention of monstrosities, never suspecting that I owed each moment of life to the staring moon.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George