As yet they had suffered no scathe by the way, save the king's chaplain, that had to return to the Rhine afoot.
But the host answered the guests, "My scathe is greater than thine; because of the mickle toil of the strife, and its shame, not one of you shall come forth alive.
Then he, himself, came in scathe by Albric, that would have avenged the death of his masters then and there, till that he felt Siegfried's exceeding might.
Bold Irnfried ran at the gleeman, and came in scatheby his hand.
And whoso hath this on his body cometh not in scathe by blows or spear-thrusts; nor is he seen of any man so long as he weareth it, but may spy and hearken at his will.
Though I came in scathe by him myself, I will avenge the death of the bold knight of Trony.
When Master Hildebrand felt the wound, he feared more scathe from Hagen, so he threw his shield over his back and fled.
Now my good friends and kinsmen / of Burgundian land, Stay ye your hands from conflict, / let us hear and see If done upon the chieftain / aught by my men of scathe there be.
Nor may the Lady Kriemhild / ready make thereto, That any by her counsel / scathe to us may do.
Great is the scathe to both sides / and great the sorrowing as well.
By scathe to us will Ruediger / service do for tower and land.
Eke sprang from the table / the lofty monarchs three, Who glad had stilled the combat / ere greater scathe might be.
In death of these two heroes / such scathe befalleth us, Wherefor land and people / shall repine for aye.
He knew how scathe did wait him / and boundless sorrowing, And gladly had refused / to obey the king And eke his royal mistress.
To his guest the king gave answer: / "Than shame andscathe I've naught.
Since that we from them parted / hath any dared to do Scathe to my lady's kinsmen?
The scathe he first received / he deemed sufficient quite, Yet injury far greater / soon had he from King Gunther's knight.
Then Beowulf the stranger discovered that the battle-blade would not bite or scathe her life, but the edge failed the lord in his need.
But not at first did she scathehis body, safe and sound.
I am he that sits at the end of the land and keep sea-guard, so that no one more loathsome may scathe with ship-army the land of the Danes.
Thither he came in the evening and said, as one who knew it well, that Grettir was dead, and that great scathe was it of such a man.
And much scathe the men of the country-side deemed all this.
Then Angle fell to speaking with Illugi, "Great scathe it is of such a brave man as thou art, that thou hast fallen to such folly, as to betake thee to ill deeds with this outlaw here, and must needs lie slain and unatoned therefore.
Then said the chapmen that he was a man of mighty strokes, and that such should king's men be; and no scathethey deemed it though Thorbiorn were slain, in that he had been both quarrelsome and spiteful.
I must offend before I be attainted; And had I twenty times so many foes, And each of them had twenty times their power, All these could not procure me any scathe So long as I am loyal, true, and crimeless.
A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion, To pray for them that have donescathe to us!
In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er Did never float upon the swelling tide To do offence and scathe in Christendom.
We Christians never dreamed of scathe Because we cursed or kicked the crew.
Outstripping time, her infant there burst swathe, Stood up with eyes haggard beyond the scathe From wandering after his heritage Lost once and lost for aye--and why that rage, That deprecating glance?
Scathe and shame, and a waefu' name, And a weary time and strange, Have they that seeing a weird for dreeing Can die, and cannot change.
I am thy stepsire, as all men know, And thou doom'st me on hest like this to go; But so God my safe return bestow, I promise to work thee scathe and strife Long as thou breathest the breath of life.
Scathe to the Christian to him is best, And in Marsil's presence he joined the rest.
The Franks shall perish in scathe and scorn; Karl the Great, who is old and worn, Weary shall grow his hosts to lead, And the land of Spain be for ever freed.
But if it chanced, That thou shouldst meet with an untimely death, By dart or javelin, at the stripling's hands, What scathe and ruin would this realm befall!
No longer respite will I give, And thou this day shalt cease to live; For I, as sunlight kills the morn, Will slay thee for thy scathe and scorn.
Safe in the shadow of his arm The world is kept from scathe and harm.
He cast me out with scathe and scorn, And from my side my wife was torn.
To find the child of Janak still Alive and free from scathe and ill!
The warrior pair who tamed the foe, Unrivalled benders of the bow, Kept watch and ward unwearied still To guard the saint fromscathe and ill.
But every monkey, ape, and bear Ever was Báli’s special care; With his vast strength and mighty arm He kept them from all scathe and harm.
Vext by my brother Báli long My soul has borne the scathe and wrong.
Bring thou the charger back again: The sacred rite prevented thus Brings scathe and woe to all of us.
For a chance stroke might do all the scathe at once, and make me an unhappy man till the end of my days.
So beware ever, for mickle scathe shall come of it if he see the heavens and the earth for light cause.
How dare ye pull this herb,' he says, 'To scathe my babe away?
Up starts Lady Margaret's mother, An angry woman was she: 'There grows ane herb in yon kirk-yard That will scathe the babe away.
But every monkey, ape, and bear Ever was Báli's special care; With his vast strength and mighty arm He kept them from all scathe and harm.
Earth is not deep enough to hide The coward slave who shrinks aside; Hell is not hot enough to scathe The ruffian wretch who breaks his faith.
The eighth virtue of the stone is, that no bite of any kind of snake may scathe him who tasteth the stone in liquid.
One is when there is thunder, it doth not scathe the man who hath this stone with him.
The third virtue is, that no venom may scathe the man who hath the stone with him.
And Balen bade him turn him there To tell the king what woes they were That bowed him down so sore: and he Made woeful answer: “This should do Great scathe to me, with nought for you Of help that hope might hearken to For boot that may not be.
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