Detriment

Usage examples of harm.

She did not want to harm the bird, but the thing had already bloodied her and would not back off, so she conjured a minor Venca spell, catching the bird as it plummeted down, insensate.

Some moderate Federalists and old friends warned Adams he could be doing himself and the country great harm by remaining too long in seclusion.

Then he announced that I was Amra, the Lion, and his friend, and no harm should come to me.

I felt such confidence in the substantial justice of the charges which I advanced against her, that I considered them to be a safeguard and an assurance that no harm could ever arise from the freest exposition of what I used to call Anglican principles.

I did not know all that the Fathers had said, but I felt that, even when their tenets happened to differ from the Anglican, no harm could come of reporting them.

There is nothing your world can do to harm me, other than hinder my parameters and areas of exploration and scientific discovery.

Even though the young Arii had seen me he would not have raised his hand to harm me, for he too would gladly see the ship cast away and broken upon the reef, so that he need not leave my cousin Alrema.

Atoka, my brother, because he feared you might come to harm at the hands of the Wyandots.

The Mahars had offered fabulous rewards for the capture of any one of us alive, and at the same time had threatened to inflict the direst punishment upon whomever should harm us.

I would be able to do this automatic writing thing, but I knew there was no harm in trying.

Harm the Baka Ban Mana, Harm Sister Verna, or Harm me, and the truce will be ended, and I promise you we will have war!

They harmed no one, not himself, his wife, his children or his guests, Goodall liked to frighten by covering his face with bees over his face like a beard.

And, against all reason, I was inclined to believe Bloch when he said he meant me no harm.

As yesterday most ably demonstrated, any ignorant fool with a torch can precipitate broadscale harm.

But if a goldfish went woof woof, it would be an empty threat, because what harm could a goldfish do you, even a very large, pumped-up on steroids kind of goldfish who had possibly studied all the Sonny Chiba films and knew a lot of spiffy moves?