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He reached out with almost omnipotent power and smote his enemies, remaining impervious to their counterattack.
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
And he smote the air with his fists, and believers trembled with excitement.
The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.
After the ruler's next refusal, a plague of locusts smote the land and Moses brought a darkness for three days.
But his heart smote him when he told his beads, and remembered what he had said to Carloman.
I was sure the owner committed the cardinal sin of improperly storing his wine, and I smote him with all the fervor of a zealot.
And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
He says he should have deployed troops earlier to restore order after Hurricane Katrina smote New Orleans.
A month earlier in Chiba, which abuts Tokyo, a 68-year-old woman, Akiko Domoto, smote both the LDP and the Democratic and Communist Parties.
You saw till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image on his feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.
The stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
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.
And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and broke his two horns.
Also, as he cut and sliced, smote exuberantly and flogged, the consequences of what he was doing became apparent.
Than dressed hym Sir Bors unto a sterne knyght and smote hym on the umbrell, that his neck braste.
And the man smote him, smiting and wounding him.
That day no further leaf we did uncover.' While thus one Spirit told us of their lot, The other wept, so that with Pity's thralls I swooned, as if by Death I had been smote, And fell down even as a dead body falls.
But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod, and the coasts thereof.
As well as Saracens, he smote future Europeans Saxons, Slavs and more.
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As the awestricken eyes of the terrified child fell on the mass of stone and bronze the sight smote him breathless.
And therewithal Sir Tristram strode unto him and took his lady from him, and with an awk stroke he smote off her head clean.
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.
As he slipped from his blankets the same strong smell of black sage and juniper smote him, almost like a blow.
The Count at that word so ireful grew, He smote his wife that the blood out-flew.
And the smell of peaty clothes smote him on the nostril for the first time that day.
The Scots were riding forward to whelm him when Brian's men drove down with a wild yell and smote the length of their flank.
A winter midnight was on the woods, while a northeaster smote the coast, a dozen miles away, with the million sledges of the surf.
Hjort had been the death of two men, and the easterling leapt on him and smote him full on the breast.
He had to bid him go back in a surly tone, and his heart smote him while he did so.
But when she had given them thereof and they had drunk, straightway she smote them with a rod and shut them up in sties.
Her companions' eyes were opened, for the instant a fellow-feeling smote them.
I fleeted by her like the shadow of Death, and as I went I smote with mine axe, and lo!
And then king Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear throughout the body more than a fathom.
He sprang forward nimbly, as best he might, so that the glaive smote the air.
If it had a new meaning that smote him to the heart, the change was in his perception, not in her.
Parr smote one on the side of the neck and spilled him in a squalling heap.
The proof that she could smote suddenly across the ridge of one's spine like the prickle of a mild electric shock.
Six boys and a whiner were asleep in their bunks in the log cabin when that awesome sound first smote the air.
Also Sir Kay came out of an ambushment with five knights with him, and they six smote other six down.
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