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
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)
Thou shalt swear me an oath!" said Robin, "On my bright brand, Thou shalt never await me scathe!
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse 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
Whereof the effect be—faith That, some far day, were found Ripeness in things now rathe, Wrong righted, each chain unbound, Renewal born out of scathe.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
Vocabulary lists containing scathe
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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