Smote Sentence Examples

The nobleman smote his breast.

A plague smote the city, and when it was removed to Ekron, pestilence followed in its wake.

A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears.

His book, aided by others taking substantially the same view, smote the society with a paralysis from which it never recovered.

In 2 Samuel 23.20 we read that Benaiah " smote two Ariels of Moab " .

Balaam), son of Beor, and states that a Hadad, son of Bedad, smote Midian in the field of Moab (Gen, xxxvi.

He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

Then Brihtnoth drew his blade, broad and of burnished edge, and smote upon his mail.

But "the angel of the Lord smote him," and shortly afterwards he died "eaten of worms."

One smote the threshold with an axe, another with a pestle, the third swept it with a broom - three symbols of culture (for trees were hewn down with the axe, grain pounded with the pestle, and the fruits of the field swept up with the broom) which Silvanus could not endure.

It is reported that Mahmud marched through Ajmere to avoid the desert of Sind; that he found the Hindus gathered on the neck of the peninsula of Somnath in defence of their holy city; that the battle lasted for two days; that in the end the Rajput warriors fled to their boats, while the Brahman priests retired into the inmost shrine; that Mahmud, introduced into this shrine, rejected all entreaties by the Brahmans to spare their idol, and all offers of ransom; that he smote the image with his club, and forthwith a fountain of precious stones gushed out.

Bruce, previously so shifty, had never wavered or turned back since he smote the Red Comyn at Dumfries.

Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest 's servant, and cut off his right ear.

I tell you, Papa" (he smote himself on the breast as a general he had heard speaking had done, but Berg did it a trifle late for he should have struck his breast at the words "Russian army"), "I tell you frankly that we, the commanders, far from having to urge the men on or anything of that kind, could hardly restrain those... those... yes, those exploits of antique valor," he went on rapidly.

And then he who was to create the knight took the sword and girded him with it, and then embracing him he lifted his right hand and smote him on the neck or shoulder, saying, " Be thou a good knight," a.nd kissed him.

Thrice Joash smote the Syrians - in accordance with the last words of the dying prophet - and Aphek in the Sharon plain, famous in history for Israel's disasters, now witnessed three victories.

This object he achieved, but soon his conscience smote him, and he declared these words to have been an inspiration of Satan.

May Nero rest from all the torments of the damned, that they may seize on Stilicho; for Nero smote his own mother, but Stilicho the mother of the world!