Then Beltane leapt, the great sword flashing in his grasp, and smote the smiter and set his feet upon the writhing body and smote amain with terrible arm, and his laughter rang out fierce and wild.

Even as he spake he reeled 'neath the blow of a heavy mace, steadied himself, cut down his smiter, and thrust and smote amain until the grim, fierce-shouting ranks gave back before the sweep of that long sword.

I curse him by our country's gods, The terrible, the dark, The breakers of the Roman rods, The smiters of the bark.

Other persons, I am aware, have not the same cowardly shrinking from a candid opinion of their performances, and are even importunately eager for it; but I have convinced myself in numerous cases that such exposers of their own back to the smiter were of too hopeful a disposition to believe in the scourge, and really trusted in a pleasant anointing, an outpouring of balm without any previous wounds.

[Footnote 7: Or perhaps "smiter.

Their blood ran warm about them and they sighed For the mad smiter did his work too well, Just drew together softly and so died, Fell very still and strange, and moved not side by side.

But if that same blow were given to a parent, the law struck the smiter dead.

If a Jew smote his neighbor, the law merely smote him in return; but if the blow was given to a parent, it struck the smiter dead.

If a Jew smote his neighbor, the law merely smote him in return; but if the blow was given to a parent, it struck the smiter dead.

But if that same blow were given to a parent, the law struck the smiter dead.

If a Jew smote his neighbor, the law merely smote him in return; but if the blow was given to a parent, it struck the smiter dead.

If a Jew smote his neighbor, the law merely smote him in return; but if the blow was given to a parent, it struck the smiter dead.

The last drop had now been dashed into the cup of endurance,the final blow had been struck, under which the human spirit either falls crushed and prostrated forever, or from which it springs up tempered to adamantine hardness, and incapable thenceforth of feeling either fear for itself or pity for its smiter.

In warm weather the butter adheres to the hands of the "smiter," who puffs and blows over it as if it were very hard work.

And, O son of Kunti, smiter of all foes, thou shalt also slay all the portions of celestials and Danavas and the Rakshasas that have been incarnate on earth.

He who hath for his counsellor and protector and friend that smiter of sinful menthe lord of the three worldsHari himselfencountereth nothing that he cannot conquer.

Let him begin to despise the world, to distribute to the poor his goods, to esteem as nothing worth what other men love, let him disregard injuries, not seek to be avenged, let him give his cheek to the smiter, let him pray for his enemies; if any one who have taken away his goods, let him not ask for them again; if he have taken anything from any man, let him restore fourfold.

That while these saints Taunt me with trembling, dare me to revenge, I breathe an upper air of ancient good And strong eternal laughter; send my sun And rain upon the evil and the just, Turn my left cheek unto the smiter.

O best of smiters, lift him up from the earth even as Krishna had lifted up the Naga (Kaliya) from the Yamuna.

And mounted on cars yoked with good steeds, those smiters of hostile ranks, those foremost of men, the sons of Pritha, set out with cheerful hearts.

SECTION XXXII Vaisampayana said, "Marching out of the city, those heroic smiters the Matsyas, arrayed in order of battle, overtook the Trigartas when the sun had passed the meridian.

And ye smiter of foes in battle, I will bestow on you damsels decked with ornaments, wealth in plenty, and other things that ye may like.

But the human back!It is the other, the dark side of the human moon; the blind side of the being, defenseless, and exposed to every thing; the ignorant side, turned toward the abyss of its unknown origin; the unfeatured side, eyeless and dumb and helplessthe enduring animal of the marvelous commonwealth, to be given to the smiter, and to bend beneath the burdenlovely in its patience and the tender forms of its strength.

It is true that we cannot turn the cheek to the smiter; it is true that we cannot give our cloak to the robber; civilisation is too complicated, too vainglorious, too emotional.

It is true that we cannot turn the cheek to the smiter, and the sole and sufficient reason is that we have not the pluck.