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He writes a couple of smartingly satiric scenes and puts together some pretty shrewd pacifist repartee.

From Time Magazine Archive

John Bunyan was a Baptist and "preached what I felt and what I smartingly did feel, even under that which my poor soul did groan and tremble to astonishment."

From Time Magazine Archive

She knew only that she was thrillingly, smartingly alive.

From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold

The bear whirled on his haunches, and struck viciously; but his claws met nothing but empty air, while a stiff wing-tip brushed smartingly across his eyes.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

I preached what I felt, what I smartingly did feel; even that under which my poor soul did groan and tremble to astonishment.

From Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] by Hamilton, James