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

A groom rode the racehorse, who took no scathe from his thundering gallop of the day before.

From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by Paton, James

“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

Thy tale shall nothing scathe thee.—Tell the whole.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

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 Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth