It is like the bright day-spring, which, as its glories gild the east, display before us a whole world of beauty and promise-blighted hopes have not withered, false friendships have not Scathed, cold, selfish interest has not yet hardened our hearts, or dried up our affections, and we are indeed happy; but equally like the burst of morning is it fleeting and short-lived; and equally so, too, does it pass away, never, never to return.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
A sailor heaved the lead, and the Scathed steamer bore into the rising heat.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
The former, a profound pessimist, described in his best verses the bitter fate of the lower classes; the latter with his sarcasm Scathed bureaucratic arbitrariness, while from abroad was heard the free ringing of "The Bell,"-a paper founded by Hertzen,-which seemed to be announcing that freedom was coming.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky