scathe

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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

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

Since that time, its scattered beams, refracted by broader surfaces, have, nevertheless, continued to scathe wherever they have fallen.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.

A broken bank, a dishonoured name, scathe and scorn to some—to him among the rest—who was, God knows, neither in deed nor in thought guilty of the sin which had brought ruin upon thousands.

From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)