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Definition of Scatheless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scatheless
Literary usage of Scatheless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors by Samuel Redgrave (1878)
"Yet the critics have not left him scatheless. Walpole, whose Strawberry Hill
Gothic gives us little faith in his architectural judgment, speaks of Wren's ..."
2. The Chronicle of a Cornish Garden by Harry Roberts (1901)
"The furze or gorse has for a month past been blazing in golden glory, and has
come out of the windy ordeal scatheless. In his latest book, Mark Twain writes ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1873)
"scatheless for me are maid and wife, And scatheless shall they bide. Yet charm
me May Carleton's eyes from the heart That aches in my left side. ..."
4. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"A true Brahmana goes scatheless, though he have killed father and mother, and
two valiant kings, though he has destroyed a kingdom with all its subjects. ..."
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