Word: smote
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Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length...
...lifted up the hammer, and she smote with might and main And hit the nail and drove it smack through the sleeper's brain. The moral of this story of Sisera and Jael: You can never trust a woman with a hammer and a nail...
...firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. . . . And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. . . . and it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt. . . . And Pharaoh rose up in the night. . . . and he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel...
...world retired to their homes to partake in the Passover ceremonies symbolized by eating bitter herbs and unleavened bread, by the presence on the table of a lamb's roasted shank bone in memory of the paschal lambs whose blood had saved their fathers when the Lord smote Egypt. Unmindful were they of those Jews who 19 centuries ago had abandoned their faith to worship Jesus, whose descendants for centuries had at the time of Passover commemorated the Paschal Lamb Whose blood had saved the world...
...discarded their priestlike function for that of self-mindreaders, women have flocked to join the profession and some of them have gone to the head, or near it, of their respective specialties. Last week two U. S. lady poets, whom repute places high above the ruck of feminine poetasters, smote their lyres in unison...