scatheless

Example Sentences

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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

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

He it was for the love of whom men had laid down their lives like water, only that Alexander Peden might go scatheless and speak his Master's will.

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)

I must have proof and the words of others; when, if you come scatheless from the ordeal, I will be your friend.”

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville

She forgot for once to look with a smiling face upon the passing storm, in which she was too suddenly caught to escape altogether scatheless.

From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883