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 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

As a mother her child they love it; Guarding it well from scathe and loss They have stamped its side with a big Red Cross, And the white flag waves above it.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 by Various

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

True to the law, of fame unstained, The glorious Daśaratha reigned, And, steadfast in his duty, long Kept the four castes550 from scathe and wrong.

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