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

Lady Allonby meanwhile regarded him, as she might have looked at a frog or a hurtless snake.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

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)

They had him stand in the Peace Stead and they brought against him all the things that had sworn to leave him hurtless.

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy

Sick sweat succeeds; he drops at ev'ry pore; With driving dust his cheeks are pasted o'er; Shorter and shorter ev'ry gasp he takes; And vain efforts and hurtless blows he makes.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil