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

But the Cid encountered him on the banks of the Huerta, and defeated him so completely that never again was he able to do him scathe.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis

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

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

“Ah, blessed are the people who Shall Ráma and his Sítá view, And Lakshmaṇ of the mighty arm, Returning free from scathe and harm.”

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