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Example sentences for "smitten"

Lexicographically close words:
smithies; smiths; smithy; smithying; smiting; smoak; smoake; smoaked; smoakie; smoaking
  1. Thou, O faithless Nun, smitten by God, Condemned by men, Make my wife to become good.

  2. The younger sister, Darling Maria, Full of pride In her eyebrows, In her eyes and lashes, And when you look into her eyes, You are like one smitten by the evil eye.

  3. But descending the Upper Congo, facing the wind, we were smitten with most severe forms of it.

  4. I thought verily I was the man that must enter, because I had smitten my neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not aforetime.

  5. Tis man only that delighteth to dance about the mouth of hell, and to be knowingly smitten with Satan's snare (Rom 1:32).

  6. Ephraim was one of these; but so soon as God had smitten him, behold his heart, how it works towards him.

  7. Num 24:10) God says also, that he had smitten his hands together, at the sins of the children of Israel.

  8. There is a fruit among professors that withers, and so never comes to be ripe; a fruit that is smitten in the growth, and comes not to maturity; and this is reckoned no fruit.

  9. This man's fruit is withered, wrinkled, smitten fruit, and is in effect no fruit at all.

  10. Hath he smote the children according to the stroke wherewith he hath smitten others?

  11. That fruit smitten in the growth, that withereth, and that comes not to maturity, is no fruit.

  12. Men fell dead in their ranks without a wound, smitten by sunstroke, and the sight of them filled their comrades with dismay.

  13. Had the great mid-beam of the roof fallen and smitten me, I could not have been stricken more dumb and dead.

  14. So at length, being smitten by balls from above, and ruined by mines dug under earth from below, our company that held the boulevard at the bridge end were surprised in the night, and some were taken, some drowned in the river Oise.

  15. You twain, I doubt not, were smitten senseless by these great masterpieces, and the thought of the holy use to which they were made.

  16. I turned, in great anger, and saw the Maid, her sword in her hand, wherewith she had smitten me flatlings, and not with the edge.

  17. Moreover, that saying of the Maid came into my mind, that she should be smitten of a bolt, but not unto death.

  18. The main onslaught, I knew, was not on the gate behind the tower in which I lay, though that tower also was smitten of cannon-balls.

  19. For his courage we spared him, but Antoine, being unhelmeted and unknown, was smitten on the head by Barthelemy Barrette, with a blow of a casse-tete.

  20. He sued:--heart-smitten by the wrong, To the lorn Fugitive The Emperor sent a pledge as strong 95 As sovereign power could give.

  21. Millard left Mrs. Gouverneur with the intention of calling at once on Miss Callender, but when he reached Broadway he was smitten with a scruple, not of conscience, but of etiquette.

  22. This talk from the smitten creature broke down Phillida's self-control, and she wept with the others.

  23. Whenever her face assumed this transfigured look his heart was smitten with pain--the mingled pain of love intensified and of hope declining; for this exaltation seemed to put Phillida above him, and perhaps out of his reach.

  24. Mrs. Frankland's enthusiasms translated themselves instantly into eloquent expression; she was an instrument richly toned that gave forth melody of joy or sorrow when smitten by emotion.

  25. He beholds the spot where a thousand trained soldiers of England were smitten to the earth, in the first effort of revolutionary war, by the arm of a bold and determined yeomanry, contending for liberty and their country.

  26. In the midst of all these glowing and glorious prospects, they are neither restrained by ignorance, nor smitten down by the penury of personal circumstances.

  27. Our dead lay just before the high altar on low biers, their faces all covered with linen cloths, for some of them had been sore smitten and hacked in the fray.

  28. Now at the time the weather was severely cold, but the king meanwhile began to suffer from an intolerable heat and to sweat profusely, and to be smitten with an overpowering horror.

  29. Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

  30. It began at the sanctuary, and the wicked worshippers Ezekiel saw in his vision were smitten first of all, while the man with the inkhorn marked the entire remnant for preservation.

  31. His philosophic good-humor furnished him with no panacea to offer this smitten creature, returning in feebleness of mind to some forgotten piety of his youth.

  32. It was the same agony which had smitten Edward Levis with merciful swiftness, here long drawn out.

  33. Do you think a man can put up with temperance drinks when his enemy's smitten hip and thigh?

  34. That pang of 'irreparableness' which had smitten Elise smote him now.

  35. Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory thereof and abide at home; for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

  36. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, "Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it, whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

  37. The son of Atreus, the first of all the chiefs, on beholding the daughter of Priam, is said to have been smitten with the dishevelled locks of the raving prophetess.

  38. Many of the richest and most learned men resorted to her, and became smitten by her charms.

  39. The France which had been in great part constituted by their efforts was smitten with the curse of an anomalous and dissonant jurisprudence beyond every other country in Europe.

  40. Then said Erik: "He was smitten with shame for the adultery wherewith he was taxed; for since he could bring no defence, he confessed that he had committed it with thy wife.

  41. A youth named Wigg, scanning with attentive eye the bodily size of Rolf, and smitten with great wonder thereat, proceeded to inquire in jest who was that "Krage" whom Nature in her beauty had endowed with such towering stature?

  42. Therefore, if he were to seek a match in a proper spirit, he should weigh the ancestry, and not be smitten by the looks; for though looks were a lure to temptation, yet their empty bedizenment had tarnished the white simplicity of many a man.

  43. Then I attacked the men of Tellemark, and took thence my head bloody with bruises, shattered with mallets, and smitten with the welded weapons.

  44. And so Westmar failed to compass his revenge: zealous to retaliate, he fell into the portion of those who need revenging; being smitten down even as those whose slaughter he had desired to punish.

  45. Let none offer himself to be smitten by the enemy behind, let none receive the swords in his back: let the battling breast ever front the blow.

  46. Soon afterwards he was smitten with remorse and shame, and lamented his crime so bitterly, that he could not refrain from tears if it happened to be named.

  47. Paul was getting smitten by the younger one.

  48. At this moment Evadne enters, wife of the godless Capaneus who was smitten by the thunderbolt; she is demented and wishes to find the body to die upon it.

  49. For a time Teucer the archer brother of Ajax held them back, but when he was smitten by a mighty stone hurled of Hector all resistance was broken.

  50. Often these are smitten full in the face by the thunderbolt; and perhaps this beacon message is mere imagining or a lie sent from heaven.

  51. Mackintosh, quoting these words, declares, with proper exultation, that “Philosophy and Religion appear by the hand of their faithful minister to have thus smitten the monsters in their earliest infancy.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smitten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.