Then turning to the younger sister, he said, "How is it, aren't your shoes worn out?" She dropped her eyes, blushed deeply, and, perhaps, a little conscience-smitten, answered not a word.

""I am oftener smitten."

It was as if she had been cast out into a deserta sandy plain smitten with the relentless Sun of Life, and in it was no house of refuge, no comfortable tree, no waters of healing.

"'Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; and let them reprove me, it shall,' as Solomon says, 'be an excellent oil.'" "I am glad," continued the woman, "to find you with a turned heart; but whaur is the Jezebel ye took in her place?

It was as if she had been cast out into a deserta sandy plain smitten with the relentless Sun of Life, and in it was no house of refuge, no comfortable tree, no waters of healing.

Not less elate than smitten with wild woe To see not them but Thee by death undone, Were those blest souls, when Thou above the sun Didst raise, by dying, men that lay so low: Elate, since freedom from all ills that flow From their first fault for Adam's race was won; Sore smitten, since in torment fierce God's son Served servants on the cruel cross below.

Imagine him bullying his gardener over some transplanted geraniums, the thick mist of lies they stand in, so that the man does not immediately with the edge of a spade smite down his impertinence to the dust from which it rose....

I tell thee, drummer, if thy drum thou smite, By heav'n, I'll send thy soul to hell's dark night.

“By thy name that in hellfire was written, and burned at the point of thy sword, Thou art smitten, thou God, thou art smitten; thy death is upon thee, O Lord.

Unshaded smites the summer sun, Unchecked the winter blast; The school-girl learns the place to shun, With glances backward cast.