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Definition of Safe and sound
1. Adjective. Free from danger or injury. "The children were found safe and sound"
Definition of Safe and sound
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) Having come to no harm, especially after being exposed to danger. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Safe And Sound
Literary usage of Safe and sound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"... a good watch over me.1 I arrived by God's grace safe and sound at Viterbo,
where my cousins and all the convent received me with the greatest kindness. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"I arrived by God's grace safe and sound at Viterbo, where my cousins and all the
convent received me with the greatest kindness. IV After leaving Viterbo ..."
3. Andersonville Diary, Escape, and List of the Dead: With Name, Co., Regiment by John L. Ransom (1883)
"... safe and sound. Once Mofe See the Old Flag, and the Boys in Blue—Mr. Kim- ball
and Mrs. Dickinson Recompensed—Find the Ninth Michigan ..."
4. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World's History by James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford (1902)
"... Till at last no soul but Christian souls Upon that ship was found; The twenty
score were dead, and we, The hundred, safe and sound. ..."
5. Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas by Clarence Edward Andrews (1922)
"O traveller devouring the desert ways and solitudes, Thou art in the right path,
And thou shalt arrive safe and sound. Go on, speed thy pace, journey night ..."
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