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After an insipid batting display on Sunday, Pakistan made some effort to redress things by rejigging the batting order to get smiters in early.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2010

He hath an army of women, smiters with swords and lungers with lances, five-and-twenty thousand in number, each of whom, whenas she mounteth steed and donneth battle-gear, eveneth a thousand knights of the bravest.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

But in Alsace--"this brave Government dare only turn to the smiters the other cheek."

From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Marsh, Richard

They become porters, carters, reapers, sailors, lock-keepers, smiters on the anvil, cultivators of the earth, &c.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Marching out of the city, those heroic smiters the Matsyas, arrayed in order of battle, overtook the Trigartas when the sun had passed the meridian.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan