Many an one who breaks the swords shall smart for this.
Gamli's brother Grim, who was very smart and active, and another rode with Grettir.
By this time the captives had learned from experience that if they wished to avoid the spear-points they must walk in advance of their captors at a very smart pace.
Taking off their belts and stowing them overhead, they got hold of their bags, exchanged their smart uniforms for old suits of clothes, and otherwise prepared themselves for the endurance of life on board a transport.
A smart blow from the riding-switch on his naked back aroused him to his duty, and caused a slight laugh among the onlookers.
You did that, young man, about as smart as I could a' done it myself," growled a voice behind him.
Once in these, he proceeded at a smart pace to one of the railway stations, intending to leave town, though as yet he had formed no definite plan of action.
Irish voice, as a smart little soldier crossed the street to them, and was introduced to Miles as Corporal Flynn, belonging to another company in his own regiment.
It was witnessed by our colonel and Captain Smart and the doctor.
Waiting about in front of the hotel for an hoar or two proved to be too much for our hero's nerves; he therefore made up his mind to exhaust his nervous system by means of a smart walk.
Alexandre, whom you can instruct beforehand; and she issmart enough to put any sharper off the track.
Everything is going on swimmingly, my smart nephew," said Clameran; "your receipts acted like a charm.
My lord, however, they struck sharply, and at the sudden smart and a quick realization of falling behind, frowningly he drove his horse harder.
If I write anything now, it must be a smart spicy quarto on Bankruptcy, or a rattling digest on the Law of Settlement and Highways.
The Hungarian and one girl assistant were trying by futile garish window-decorations to draw trade from the great department stores and the five-and-ten-cent stores on one side of them and the smart shops on the other side.
He was wearing a decorative new traveling cap, very smart and extensive and expensive, shaped like a muffin, and patterned with the Douglas tartan and an Etruscan border.
Mother sniffed at him and said that he acted like a young smart Aleck, but he would merely grin in answer and coax her out for a walk.
She picked up the menu-card as though she were delicately removing a bug--supposing there to be any bug so presumptuous as to crawl upon her smart tan suit.
There's just one man living that's smart enough to match Jesse Purvy--an' that one man is Samson.
I reckon there's right smart truth to that," he acknowledged.
A smart breeze was drawing down the canyon, and the bear, being to the windward, could not smell the man up the tree, but he approached the meat cautiously and seemed in no hurry for his supper.
They are a sort of Jumbo grasshopper," said the smart boy from Boston.
It was the smart boy from Boston who had been looking on all this time, and who now came forward with his hand held out.
The smart boy from Boston, however, with an eye to big profits and a long job, went straight to the express office, and sent all the way to the East for a costly and first-class shotgun.
She sat down and bent her smart lorgnette upon the menu-card.
He felt no prick of shame at the base move he contemplated, no smart of pity for the ruin it should bring.
He wasted no time in changing clothes, but turned up the striped trousers and the sleeves of the jacket and donned the smart habilaments over his prison rig, the extra lining compensating for his slighter form.
Within the town there were one or two streets where stood smart wooden houses with Mansard-roofs.
A carriage with arms on its panels had stopped at the inn, and as a smart footman opened the door, a fine grey-headed military-looking man stepped out and strode hurriedly up the inn steps.
She was a sprightly young woman, very smart and merry and decorously voluptuous, and of that fascinating prettiness that wins the hearts of boys and storms the footlights.
She's as pretty as a picture, an' smart as chain lightnin', but let to run wild like a colt.
It seems to me you're awfully green about mining for such a smart man as they say you are.
God knows I hate Gordon, but God knows the man's smart as chain lightning, and anybody who undervalues him is a fool.
In the first place," he said slowly, "Jim Mason's an all fired smart man.
He was not as smart at them as Snap was at his, but then cats never do learn to do tricks as well as do dogs.
So the smart young officer and the old beggar in his ragged coat, with the accordion hanging over his shoulder, who might have been mistaken for Quasimodo himself, descended the steps in company.
Careful of his smart appearance, the corporal examined himself in the glass: the reflection was so satisfactory that he broke into smiles--undoubtedly his uniform suited him.
Of course, it is very smart on your part to hit upon them so quickly, but what possible purpose can it serve to find out the meaning of something carved in Japan more than fifty years ago, at the very least?
As he walked, a smart cane swung from his left wrist by a silk tassel, and he took a pinch of snuff from an ivory box.
John knew nothing of feminine economics, or he would have been aware that her fashionably smart costume and that pretty hat she wore had cost almost nothing at all, and had been mostly the work of her own hands.
We pay full wages," adds Mr. Smedley, "the hands are smart and effective.
Two smart Yankees hired our apprentice to go with them to the distant State of New Jersey, for the express purpose of making cases for the clocks they sold.
Hath your smart Been felt from Neptune, being at sea--his wrath The winds and waves exciting to your scathe?
Yet his smart I wept to see, and rued it from my heart, Enquiring how he could before me be That came by ship?
Nobody would sell them an acre of ground near a car line and the dusky smart set was about to get its light put out.
You look realsmart in them natty little suits, too.
She wore a smart sailor hat, and, putting on some white washing gloves, ran downstairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
