smote

Example Sentences

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Smote, slew, throve and forsook sound odd, and few people use them.

From Time Magazine Archive

And still the maddening rumours worked, and still 'Fair, young, and a king's daughter,' the same words Smote me and pierced me.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

Then Love the Master-player came With heaving breast and eyes aflame; The Harp he took all undismayed, Smote on its strings, still strange to song, And brought forth music sweet and strong.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart

The hoar-frost hisses 'neath the feet, And the worm-fence's straggling length, Smote by the morning's slanted strength, Sparkles one rib of virgin sleet.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.

All was serene and calm, but the odorous breath of the willows Smote with a mystical sense of infinite sorrow upon us.

From Poems by Howells, William Dean