scatheless
Example Sentences
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But on the face of this man was only a free soldierly indifference to danger, as of one who had passed through many perils and come forth scatheless.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Ships, gliding seawards, scatheless that endure High seas, excessive storms, that sailors dread, Experience, ere gaining destined shores, A rougher tempest grasping doomèd dead.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various
He was pensioned after the Restoration, and the protection of the king and the Earl of Devonshire kept him scatheless, if ever there was any real danger.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
It is not necessary to state that to have passed the ordeal of so severe a cross-examination scatheless, needed no small amount of courage, intelligence, and ready shrewdness on the part of the witness.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
I must have proof and the words of others; when, if you come scatheless from the ordeal, I will be your friend.”
From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville
