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

But ill tongues would fall hurtless were there no believers to give them credit; as robbers could not continue to pilfer were there no receivers of stolea goods.

From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

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)

"If it go on bleeding like that," I thought, "it will soon be hurtless!"

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

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