| But his heart smote him when he told his beads, and remembered what he had said to Carloman. |
| He reached out with almost omnipotent power and smote his enemies, remaining impervious to their counterattack. |
| Now, the idea smote her softened heart that Wilfrid's passion might engulf her if she had no word of sustainment from Merthyr. |
| Then the voice of Ixion smote the ear of Hesioneus, harsh as the flapping of the wings of Erinys when she wanders through the air. |
| After the ruler's next refusal, a plague of locusts smote the land and Moses brought a darkness for three days. |
| Shortly after we had completed our formation, the sad tones of a dead march smote our ears and a funeral procession entered through an opening at the other end of the square. |
