Example Sentences

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The Isolationists, supposedly on the defensive, were smiting their opponents hip & thigh.

From Time Magazine Archive

Outside the day had become suddenly bright, the threatening storm had drifted away, and great shafts of coloured light from the pictured windows were smiting like arrows amidst his hearers....

From Soul of a Bishop by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

It looked as though his conscience were smiting him.

From Burning Sands by Weigal, Arthur

It seemed as if the staunch little steamer must turn over as she plunged along through the seas that were smiting her with increased force every moment.

From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Patchin, Frank Gee

And all this had gone by in a whirl, as it were, and the Danes were still striving to regain their lord, while Olaf and Ottar were smiting unceasingly.

From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)