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Examples
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He lunged at her, but the blade passed scathelessly through her body as though it were smoke.
Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003
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Anskiere's ward drew her scathelessly through the gale-ravaged wreckage of Kisburn's fleet and westward into the open sea.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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This later style is so scathelessly a parody of itself that one would not wish a word changed.
Short Reviews Editors, The 1972
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Marvelously the gigantic colonel had passed scathelessly through the thick tempest, but his noble gray charger had not been so fortunate.
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In the hope, then, of ruining him, if not of getting scathelessly off themselves, these ladies-legatees mustered once more from the mazes of St. Giles's the pack of competent Irish witnesses, collected whatever documentary or other evidence looked likeliest to help their ends, and then one early day presented themselves before the lord-mayor, eager to destroy at a blow that pleasant Mr. Dillaway.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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