scatheless

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The Spaniards, perceiving this, brought their guns over to the sea side, but the pirates, being favoured by this loss of time and also with a good breeze, escaped almost scatheless.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick

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

But not thus comparatively scatheless, did the great actors in and promoters of this sanguinary drama, come off from the effects of the internecine strife.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

For a time Stayner's tactics, or his luck, held him scatheless.

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir

Yet still There is a virtue, given to make its guiles Shrink into ruin, like a withered leaf, And pass the spirit scatheless.

From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard