scatheless

Example Sentences

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It would be a bonny thing if, by the escape of one ill-doer another was to go scatheless, 83 and the remeid is to summon the principal and put him to outlawry for the non-compearance.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Nor did the Allied planes come off scatheless.

From Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam by Young, Clarence

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)