As the awestricken eyes of the terrified child fell on the mass of stone and bronze the sight smote him breathless. |
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And therewithal Sir Tristram strode unto him and took his lady from him, and with an awk stroke he smote off her head clean. |
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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. |
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As he slipped from his blankets the same strong smell of black sage and juniper smote him, almost like a blow. |
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The Count at that word so ireful grew, He smote his wife that the blood out-flew. |
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And the smell of peaty clothes smote him on the nostril for the first time that day. |
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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. |
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A winter midnight was on the woods, while a northeaster smote the coast, a dozen miles away, with the million sledges of the surf. |
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Hjort had been the death of two men, and the easterling leapt on him and smote him full on the breast. |
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He had to bid him go back in a surly tone, and his heart smote him while he did so. |
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But when she had given them thereof and they had drunk, straightway she smote them with a rod and shut them up in sties. |
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Her companions' eyes were opened, for the instant a fellow-feeling smote them. |
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I fleeted by her like the shadow of Death, and as I went I smote with mine axe, and lo! |
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And then king Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear throughout the body more than a fathom. |
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He sprang forward nimbly, as best he might, so that the glaive smote the air. |
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If it had a new meaning that smote him to the heart, the change was in his perception, not in her. |
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Parr smote one on the side of the neck and spilled him in a squalling heap. |
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The proof that she could smote suddenly across the ridge of one's spine like the prickle of a mild electric shock. |
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Six boys and a whiner were asleep in their bunks in the log cabin when that awesome sound first smote the air. |
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Also Sir Kay came out of an ambushment with five knights with him, and they six smote other six down. |
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Turning instantly upon the driver, he smote him with his hayfork, knocking him from his horse, and laying the skull bare. |
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But he played, played furiously, and he smote the keyboard as if he hated it. |
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Now, the idea smote her softened heart that Wilfrid's passion might engulf her if she had no word of sustainment from Merthyr. |
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This last act Hepzibah now performed, letting the bar fall with what smote upon her excited nerves as a most astounding clatter. |
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All the hopes and desires of the autumn smote him with encompassing blows. |
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A guffawed chorus of derision rudely smote his burning ears. |
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Passing through the doorway the door smote him full, and the shriek which followed brought the dancing to a halt. |
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Ruth smote the hard ground at her feet with all her strength. |
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Three months afterward, in midwinter, he smote the north shore of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Greece in the same stupefying manner. |
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He smote his palm with his clenched fist and strode about the little room. |
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The homely beauty of it smote upon him, though it could not cheer. |
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Each man smote down his brother, and was himself smitten down before he had time to exult in his victory. |
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Then the sound of the altercation overhead smote him too with alarm. |
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The axe smote the oak of Tara, the cruel hatchet the tree of kero. |
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Of a sudden the idea that they had not smote him forcefully. |
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Ring as often as it might, the sound always smote upon her nervous system rudely and suddenly. |
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Then Sir Agwisance the King of Ireland encountered with Sir Gareth, and there Sir Gareth smote him from his horse, saddle and all. |
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Eurypylus gave him chase as he was flying before him, smote him with his sword upon the arm, and lopped his strong hand from off it. |
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Then Galahad put forth his spear, and smote the foremost to the earth. |
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It smote upon his heart to feel that she hid her thin, worn shoe. |
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So the other Sahib, first smiting his own man senseless, smote the stabber with a short gun which had rolled from the first man's hand. |
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A quick vision of death smote her soul, and for a second of time appalled and enfeebled her senses. |
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As Trent watched hsien Sgam, an emotion almost of pity smote him. |
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Peter's boat See, Sic, see on the neap tide float, Pig pained to pig, and goat to goat, Aflame they whom the searchlight smote. |
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Jakin threw out his chest, which Lew smote with all his might. |
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And teucer smote Glaucus on the shoulder and wounded him sore. |
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The flickering light was blinding and confusing, and a thin hail smote gustily at my face as I drove down the slope. |
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So saying he smote the nag's haunch, and off went the Sheriff upon the road to Nottingham. |
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He raised his hand, clinched it, and smote it energetically against the smoky panel over the fireplace. |
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Furiously, too, with her shuttle of boxwood she smote Arachne. |
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Wherefore he smote Asclepius with a thunderbolt and slew him. |
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But just at that moment a heavy object smote me a resounding whack between my shoulders that nearly felled me to the ground. |
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And with the clangorous metal pail he smote the ugly, brutish skull. |
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The crass incongruity of her in that setting smote him with renewed force. |
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But when the Sheriff heard this he smote his forehead with his fist. |
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Then Robin grew mad with anger and smote with all his might at the other. |
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He smote his hand against his thigh, while Kenyon looked at him in wonder. |
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Brandes rose with an air almost jocular and smote stull upon the back. |
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He arose manfully and smote the tuning fork sharply on the table. |
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Some that smote the breast nightly in the anguish of remorse. |
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They beat their great wings up and down, and smote their rocky perches with their mighty tails until the ground shook. |
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Beyond her, it smote upon and incarnadined the shining, white, grassless faces of the sand dunes. |
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The quarryman swung his pasty bag and smote his breast with it. |
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Linton's appearance smote him speechless, and he could only glance from her to me in horrified astonishment. |
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Then, he smote his thigh with a blow strong enough to kill an ox. |
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There being no corkscrew in the house, he smote the neck of the bottle with old Peter Goldthwaite's rusty key, and decapitated the sealed cork at a single blow. |
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Thrice he smote that strong, ironbound box, and at the third blow it burst open and a great heap of gold came rolling forth, gleaming red in the light of the torches. |
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Came days of storm, days and nights of storm, when the ocean menaced us with its roaring whiteness, and the wind smote our struggling boat with a Titan's buffets. |
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Fouquet was horror-stricken, and then his heart smote him with pity. |
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All that night, while squall after squall smote Berande, uprooting trees, overthrowing copra-sheds, and rocking the house on its tall piles, Sheldon slept. |
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Oh, believe me, at times there were flashes of will that scorched through her beauty and seduction and smote a victim into blank and shivering idiocy and fear. |
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Faku crooked his arm and let the axe curl downwards, so that its keen edge smote Umslopogaas upon the head, severing his man's ring and the scalp beneath. |
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As I did so the shafts of the sun smote through the thunderstorm. |
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Then came Sir Pertolope from the castle, and there encountered with him Sir Lionel, and there Sir Pertolope the green knight smote down Sir Lionel, brother to Sir Launcelot. |
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A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears. |
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Her trilling laughter smote upon his reverie, and he stepped to the screen-door, through which he could see her running down the path to the beach. |
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A few seconds later a hissing wave-top slashed diagonally across the boat, smote Uncle Salters between the shoulders, and drenched him from head to foot. |
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Beyond, the rock opened again upon a gradual slope of sunlit greenery, and on either hand the light smote down through narrow ways into the central gloom. |
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