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
Thy tale shall nothing scathe thee.—Tell the whole.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
But must not the nature and the disposition suffer from the depression, and will the moral vigour take no scathe?
From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous
Since that time, its scattered beams, refracted by broader surfaces, have, nevertheless, continued to scathe wherever they have fallen.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
“Heathen wight, and Christian knight, I would fight with glad and fain; Only not with Verland’s son, For from him I scathe must gain.”
From Ulf Van Yern and Other Ballads by Borrow, George Henry
Vocabulary lists containing scathe
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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