Crossword-Solution: SCARLESS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The prospect of a similar business of exposition, certainly devolving upon the father in treaty with the fortunate youth, gripped at his vitals a minute, so intense was his pride in appearing woundless and scarless, a shining surface, like pure health’s, in the sight of men.

Every winter, however, the swift Princess lay in icy bonds, beside the deserted wharves, and the veteran pilot went home to his farm, his little house with its brood of children, his shaggy horses, Highland cows, and long-bodied sheep, and became as earnest a farmer as if he had never turned a vanishing furrow on the scarless bosom of the ocean.

Yet, I confess that Babette bewitched the sting and memory from many an hour of prison-life, and played the comedy of love _à la Francaise_ to such perfection, that I doubt not her heart rebounded from the encounter as scarless as my own.

Stanza 5 Must there be still some discord mix'd among The harmony of men; whose mood accords Best with contention tun'd _to notes_ of wrong? That when War fails, Peace must make war with words, _With words_ unto destruction _arm'd more_ strong 5 _Than ever were our foreign Foeman's swords_; Making as deep, _tho' not yet bleeding_ wounds? _What War left scarless, Calumny_ confounds.