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"No, thank you. I'm looking for " But retreat was impossible, for many were crowding up in eager curiosity; moreover, a muslin bandage descended-on her eyes. "Don't!" she expostulated; "I'm not at play I'm " but her words were lost. "Hush! the Peri's cave is near, No one enters scatheless here; Lightly tread and lowly bend, Win the Peri for your friend,"
Of course it was reported all throughout the assemblage that Harry was dead, and there was a pathetic scene between him and his mother when it was found that he had escaped scatheless from the fall.
"You saw the young man Luke?" I asked, as he paused, inviting a word. "He was standing by the stone figures within the porch. . . . And they crumbled crumbled before my eyes in the awful heat. But he stood scatheless. He was young and comely; the hair of his head was not singed.
That is the only way, as I think, by which we can walk scatheless through the world. Now, dear brethren, remember that this text is part of a commandment. We are to put on the shoes. How is that to be done? By a very simple way: a way which, I am afraid, a great many Christian people do not practise with anything like the constancy that they ought.
It is a necessity that his successor should quote something; and he really did bring to my mind the description of the White Bull of Duncraggan, who started up-hill so vigorously But steep and flinty was the road, And sharp the hurrying pikemen's goad, And when we came to Dennan's Row, A child might scatheless stroke his brow.
No anxiety was felt, however, by the crew of the little craft. Deal boatmen are noted for their expertness in beaching their boats and in putting off to sea in rough weather, and the man who held the tiller of the little boat which danced on the white crests of the waves that night had many and many a time come through such trifling danger scatheless.
"By Heavens, I would give the world never to have said an unkind word to him," observed one, whose arm, suspended from a sling, attested he had not come scatheless out of the action. It was St. Clair, whose great ambition it had always been to have his name borne among the list of wounded provided there were no broken bones in the question.
"Old Hildebrand shall not go scatheless, for his hand hath slain my friend, the best comrade I ever had." He raised his shield, and hewed his way right and left. Helfrich slew stark Dankwart. Doleful enow were Gunther and Giselher when they saw him fall in his bitter pains. Yet he had well avenged his death with his own hand.
Beamish, passing temerity; nor would even he have attempted it had he not been assured of the support of his phalanx of great ladies. They indeed, after being taken into the secret, had stipulated that first they must have an inspection of the transformed dairymaid; and the review was not unfavourable. Duchess Susan came out of it more scatheless than her duke.
Suddenly she, too, righted; up rose the masts, in all their height and symmetry it seemed. "She has come off scatheless!" cried one or two. "No, no, mates!" cried Paul Pringle in a tone of anguish. "See! see! heaven have mercy on their souls!"
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