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Marsh, who had been smiting all and sundry since completing his hundred, ran out to a slow ball from the Hittite captain and missed it.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian

Cameron had been smiting with the strength of ten immediately on my front.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

He got up from his chair as the intolerable memory smote him again, as it had been smiting him these three hours since the end had come.

From Red Pepper Burns by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)