scathe

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"But when the master of the house came and saw our clerk, and heard how it had all happened, he said,— "'Harm watches while men sleep; but man's scathe is the worst scathe.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

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

He cast me out with scathe and scorn, And from my side my wife was torn.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

So great was the scathe done that day that Tristrem and Ganhardin were forced once more to fly to Brittany, where in an adventure Tristrem received an arrow in his old wound.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis