had smarted
- past perfect of smart.
Example Sentences
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Very emphatically was it said by one whose whole being had smarted under such affliction, “Adder's poison is under their lips.”
From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Robertson, Frederick William
He had been cherishing a fiction that he was in love with Miss Dwight and more than once he had smarted beneath the lash of her contempt.
From The Highgrader by Hutchison, D. C.
This was the first time he had smarted in his penetrable part—the skin—and it made him very spiteful.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles
Dotty had smarted under these cruel blows long enough.
From Dotty Dimple at Play by May, Sophie
All of which he had borne with a fair show of equanimity, but he had smarted; and now Natalie's question seemed, at first sight, an echo of the unworthy journalistic jibes.
From Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Trent, Hilary
