smote
Example Sentences
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Smote, slew, throve and forsook sound odd, and few people use them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The centre was commanded by General Smote; the left, resting north, on the river, commanded by General Waterberry, and the right, resting on an almost impassable slough, connecting with the river, commanded by General McGovern.
From Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles by McElroy, John
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
While Khara, urged by valiant rage, Drew near that little hermitage, Those wondrous signs in earth and sky Smote on each prince's watchful eye.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
