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- adjective Unharmed.
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- adjective obsolete without
harm or damage
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Examples
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He had been the target of a volley which had killed his mare under him, but the six bullets through his clothes had left him scathless.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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But on the whole it was by no means a safe thing to cross his path; and few who did so came off altogether scathless.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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He was too excited to stop and shoot, and so they got away scathless.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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The criminal himself passes scathless; if, indeed, he may not put in a claim to our especial sympathy, as having been peculiarly ill-used by that society, whose duty it manifestly was to make him wise, and humane, and happy.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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It was formerly thought to be scathless -- a tree too sacred to be touched.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The miners suffered, certainly -- who comes out of a fray scathless?
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Nor did the professors escape scathless, for Mr. Wright was grazed by a spent bullet, and his helper was horned by one of the wild steers.
The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X Willard F. Baker
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"Well, brother, we have not been without our anxieties as well, and had we not happened to have had a divinity amongst us, we might not have come off scathless."
Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien
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If the boy ranchers and their comrades hoped to escape scathless they were painfully disappointed.
The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Willard F. Baker
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How is it that she passes pure and scathless in the midst of these dark enemies, like the prophet of the sacred legend among the roaring beasts?
The Simple Life Charles Wagner
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