Harmless were its mission, if it only remained a thing of beauty and joy!

Even the ladies of the American Consul's family very rarely go out singly,not from any fear, for the people are as harmless as birds, but from etiquette.

Jeers are as harmless as cheers.

We 're as harmless as doves.

Ruth and he had learned while they were little children, that there was no unkindness in the snapping of her sharp little black eyes, and that the terrible things she said were as harmless as heat lightning.

The truth about life was to be paid for by lies about bacon and butter,or, let us say, business exaggerations rendered innocuous by custom, and therefore as harmless as truth.