scathe

• Musk liniment is used to relieve the pain from scathe, wound, rheumatism and arthrosis. —  StreetInsider.com News Articles
• Blithe and soft and bland Too fair for storm to scathe or fire to cleave Shone on our dreams and memories evermore The domes, the towers, the mountains and the shore That gird or guard thee, Venice: cold and black Seems now the face we loved as he of yore We have given thee love--no stint, no stay, no lack What gift, what gift is this thou hast given us back IV But he--to him, who knows what gift is thine Death? —  Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI
• Tell him this Though thrice his might were mustered for our scathe 730 And thicker set with fence of thorn-edged spears Than sands are whirled about the wintering beach When storms have swoln the rivers, and their blasts Have breached the broad sea-banks with stress of sea That waves of inland and the main make war As men that mix and grapple; though his ranks Were more to number than all wildwood leaves The wind waves on the hills of all the world Yet should the heart not faint, the head not fall The breath not fail of Athens. —  Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition)
• "Have no fear; thou shalt take no scathe," he said Robert was glad of that. —  Five Children and It
• He wondered what "scathe" was, and if it was nastier than the medicine which he had to take sometimes Unfold thy tale without alarm," said the leader kindly. —  Five Children and It

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