Example Sentences

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And yet this last strike, under which I am smarting, has been respectable.'

From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

I am smarting, let us suppose, from a slight administered by my friend; my wounded self-assertion demands satisfaction.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.