Smote

//sməʊt//

"Smote" in a Sentence (11 examples)

"But mad with love's despair, / and stung with Furies for his spouse denied, / at length Orestes caught the wretch unware, / e'en by his father's shrine, and smote him then and there."

And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things that were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country.

No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice.

They took the reed and smote him on the head.

The girl's conscience smote her, as never before had she neglected for so long a time to go and see the faithful carer of her own motherless infancy, or else send needful provision for her impoverished old age.

Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile. Their many tongues smote all other sounds from Tarka’s ears.

As thy eye beames, when their freſh rayſe haue ſmot.

"We should have smote him," continued the ex-president of the Directory, still fretful from his misfortune;[…]

The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.

So that's the story- God did not smote us for that story. We finished the whole thing. Penn Jillette in Las Vegas with Michale Goudeau- we'll be back, we'll take some phone calls. God hath not smote my ass!

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"God has use for Satan, or He would have smote him centuries ago. In any case, Captain Dan is nothing without Barbary. He will shrivel and drift before the first clean draught that blows unhampered across the ruins.”

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