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It was plain that his conscience was smiting him.

From The Nursery, February 1878, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

And then I had the steering-oar by the middle, and was smiting downward with the loom over the side of the boat; but the thing was gone from my sight.

From The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by Hodgson, William Hope

His conscience was smiting him, he said, for having deserted me.

From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Locke and Newton and Leibnitz would carry it with them in pathless fields of speculation, while Peter the Great was smiting an arrogant priest in Russia, and William was ascending the English throne.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Kleiser, Grenville

Indeed Stiefel made Lenette give him her hand as a pledge that she would always stand still, like Joshua's sun, while Firmian was smiting the foe with pen and scourge.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul