Scaith

"Do you warrant me free of scaith?" asked the young laird. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

South, east, and west, we had friendly frontiers; only to the north were menace and danger, and from the north came our scaith -- the savage north and jealous. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Belov’d of God! Shield thy dear Church from the impending scaith, 35 ❋ Unknown (1895)

Women are very devils, made to work us dole and death; Refuge I seek with God Most High from all their craft and scaith. ❋ Anonymous (1879)

Baron, "Nor scaith nor harm from fire or water shall ever touch these walls." ❋ Mary Anne (1871)

Shall meet, through your failure, or peril or scaith. ❋ Thomas Love Peacock (1825)

Many a gallant soldier escaped from Waterloo with less scaith -- and that they did. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

Save that a wight had wrought him scaith and shame, ❋ Lodovico Ariosto (1503)

Then there befell a great wonder, for in human voice, but all hoarse and strange and ugly, as though almost too great were the effort for human soul to burst through brute form, the Laidley Worm spoke to her conqueror: "Oh! quit thy sword and put aside thy bow!" it moaned -- so moans the sea through the crash of the waves on nights when the storm strews the beach of the North Country with wreckage -- "Oh! quit thy sword, for, poisonous monster though I be, no scaith will I do thee." ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

I do not turn Covenanter rather than face these fellows without paying them; and, at the best, I shall be ill enough off, getting both the scaith and the scorn.” ❋ Unknown (2008)