scatheless

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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

The scurvy here, as with all the parties, attacked the men, leaving the officers scatheless.

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

It must not be supposed, however, that while the enemy was being punished so severely, we were going scatheless.

From Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Lumley, Savile

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

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