scatheless

Example Sentences

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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

Diadyomene!' swept down on white wings, went before, shifted, wheeled; while, so guided, reefs and breakers threatened close on every hand, fell behind and left him scatheless.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

The Tongans lost fourteen killed and thirty wounded; the Mbauans, who had been mere spectators, escaped almost scatheless.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

All the time the devilish conviction grew that if he persisted in this flummery he might emerge scatheless from a ghastly ordeal.

From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis

She is perfectly right in holding that, having me prisoner here, it is impossible to allow me to go scatheless.

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert