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He writes a couple of smartingly satiric scenes and puts together some pretty shrewd pacifist repartee.

From Time Magazine Archive

John Bunyan was a Baptist and "preached what I felt and what I smartingly did feel, even under that which my poor soul did groan and tremble to astonishment."

From Time Magazine Archive

The gray clouds meant also, in the city, clouds of dust, which the raw wind swept smartingly into his eyes every time he had occasion to go out.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday

All the lethargy of the past months disappeared; he was alive again, smartingly alive, face to face with his shame.

From What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

But that as I said, is hard to be discerned by him that thus is sinking, and that has as he now smartingly feels, all God's waves, and his billows rolling over him.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John