scatheless

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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)

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

The shock shook the building, as well as our nerves, not a little, though we were of course scatheless.

From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by Davidson, G. F.

The God of her faith would keep her scatheless until Peter, the man she loved, came to save her.

From The Vagrant Duke by Gibbs, George

Where else, in God’s green earth, have taken his pick of restaurants, ransacked the bill of fare, and departed scatheless?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis