No,” he said, smiting the table with his fist, “I do not.
Hither many a galleon old, Heavy-keeled with guilty gold, Fled before the hardy rover smiting sore; But the sleeper silent lay Till the preyer and his prey Brought their plunder and their bones to Roncador.
No more thy hand be laid Upon the sword-hilt smiting sore?
Only one day we were a community of roysterers and scoffers, impious and abominable, and the next he was amongst us smiting and thundering.
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
England no longer thought of guarding herself, but only of smiting her foe--a theory of the mutual relations on which, unofficially, the seamen had been acting for the last decade.
Small wonder that the puritan spirit saw in that huge disaster the direct intervention of the Almighty, smiting on behalf of His People.
Mightier than living voice his grave That lofty protest utters o'er; Through roaring wind and smiting wave It speaks his hate of wrong once more.
Death called him from a need as imminent As that from which the Silent William went When powers of evil, like the smiting seas On Holland's dikes, assailed her liberties.
Her anger proved as the steel smiting the flint of his own nature, and one of his fierce bursts of blazing passion whirled about her head.
The girl scurried by and darted from the room, dodging the smiting hand which the host raised as she flew past him.
While they were thus smiting the company of yagers from the front, the Seneschal abandoned the battlefield and went into the garden.
When we set to smiting above and below, great men great ones, and small men small ones, then all the rascals will be overthrown, and thus happiness and the Polish Commonwealth will bloom again.
At length through much smiting of the body nature forces the youth into a knowledge of the world in which he lives.
To the mature and the great also come dreams of ideal excellence, smiting selfishness, rebuking sin, taking the sweetness out of sordid success, and urging men on to higher achievements.
A pretty name for a ship: fairlysmiting Fate in the face.
Their enthusiast complexion, the smiting of their sticks bodes little good to any one; least of all to rich master-manufacturers of the Suburb Saint-Antoine, with whose workmen they consort.
Not swifter pulses that Guillotine, in dread systole-diastole in the Place de la Revolution, than smites the Sword of Patriotism, smiting Cimmeria back to its own borders, from the sacred soil.
And through the United States, smiting it into the dumbness of despair, went the news that the great Narragansett defenses had fallen, and that the enemy fleet was entering the harbor.
All that he knew was that his world just then was only one blur of whistling, strangling, smiting air and deafening roar.
Then the Wazir and his men fell to shouting and smiting the elephants on the face till they took fright at their furious blows, and turning tail to flee, trampled down the horsemen, whilst none could see other for the clouds of dust.
When the emmets espied Janshah they pushed on and surrounded him, and one of the slaves fell to smiting them with his sword and cutting them in twain; whereupon the whole host set upon him and slew him.
Now Hasib Karim al-Din went apart from the rest into a corner of the cavern and sitting down, fell to smiting the floor with his axe.
Kill me, Managa," I cried, smiting my chest as I stood facing him.
While they still hesitated, the two white men were upon them, smiting right and left with the stocks of their rifles, their native followers close at their heels, making the air ring with their shouts.
Discharging his revolver at the nearest man, John dashed straight forward, smiting left and right with his clubbed rifle, the men hacking with their knives and jabbing with their spears.
Cathbarr still sought the Dark Master, raging back and forth, smiting and smiting with never a pause in the flaillike sweep of his long arms.
The plague had stricken Galway and Mayo heavily that year, smiting the mountains with death.
Then he drew his dagger on him in haste and smiting him in the belly, slit it and he died forthright; whereupon the king dragged him to a well that was in his palace and cast him therein.
I went to him with head low, and he caught me at the back of the neck with a stroke like that of a smiting bar; but I flung him off, and so we stepped about, hands extended, waiting for a hold.
This act of his offered me fair hold upon his tail, and so affixed to him, I followed smiting him upon the back with blows which I think cut through his hide where the pointed knots struck.
Full surely he would not be baffled without smiting the world on the face.
A giant at war with pigmies, having nought but their weapons, having to fight them on his knees, to fight them with the right hand while smiting himself with the left, has too much upon him to keep his private dignity in order.
When the patriarch returned after smiting the invading army he was met outside Jerusalem not only by Melchizedek, but also by the new king of Sodom.
He saw Himself smiting the enemy with His occult powers and forces.
Let none henceforth cry out, when falls the blow Of sudden-smiting woe, Cry out in sad reiterated strain O Justice, aid!
Rings on my smitten breast my smiting hand, And all my cheek is rent and red, Fresh-furrowed by my nails, and all my soul This many a day doth feed on cries of dole.
He suffered a good deal, but each pang was to him only like the smiting off of chains.
There was a swish and crash of undergrowth, a hobbling stamp, and something that sounded like the smiting of leaves with a club.
Despite its wandering habit, the map-makers eventually agreed on a site for this rock of the smiting hand, calling it Satanaxio.
Consider, if I had desired it, instead of smiting the cattle, I might have smitten thee and thy people with the pestilence, and thou wouldst have been cut off from the earth.
The revelation burst upon her like the unexpected blinding glow of sunshine smiting one who approaches the mouth of a cavern, in whose chill gloom, after weary groping, all hope had died.
Her guardian noticed the tremulousness of her lip, and at that moment the sun, smiting the ring on her finger, kindled the tiny diamonds into a circle of fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smiting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
