unharming

The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

From this time an inviolable peace filled the lowly heart of the oppressed one; life's uttermost woes fell from him unharming.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

Mark turned his hard eyes toward the elder, and seemed to congeal into something inflexible, impenetrable, as if he had suddenly let down a cold sheet iron door between his soul and them, against which the words, like shot or pebbles, rattled sharp and unharming and fell in a shower at the feet of the speaker.

The City of Fire Grace Livingston Hill 1906

From Edgar Linton, as we have seen, Heathcliff's blows fell aside unharming, as the executioner's strokes from a legendary martyr.

Emily Brontë 1900

There was no wind, and the flames rose straight up, scorching the cocoanut-leaves, but unharming other houses within twenty-five feet.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

The snow struck the bottle, but the unharming bullet was buried half an inch to the left.

The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Owen Wister 1899

Thereupon Longstreet fell back towards Virginia, and came to a resting-place midway, where he afterward lay unharmed and unharming for many months.

Abraham Lincoln Morse, John T 1899

Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log -- shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855