scathe

Example Sentences

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I suggest an ibid of historians, a ponder of scientists, a scathe of bureaucrats.

From Time Magazine Archive

It does not fear satire or scathe From Minos, though knowing and nobby, And certainly won't pin its faith, To the Bench's pet fetish, the Bobby.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 by Various

Nor scathe had he, nor harm, nor dread: But the same couch beneath, Lay a gaunt wolf all torn and dead, Tremendous still in death.

From Anecdotes of Dogs by Jesse, Edward

Like a scathe that admitted no gainsaying, it came from nowhere, struck, without warning, and was gone again unpunished.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville

On my bright bronde; Shalt thou never awayte me scathe By water ne by lande.

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank