smote
Americanverb
verb
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I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:—
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The feeling, the announcement sent through me, was something stronger than was consistent with joy—something that smote and stunned: it was, I think almost fear.
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No wonder since we look it, and once more the humiliation of having nothing, not even a cooking pot, smote at me.
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Achren raised the sword above her head and smote with all her force against a stone pillar.
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As the citizens hesitated as to what to do, Juno herself swept down from heaven, smote with her own hand the bars and flung wide the doors.
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