Which preposition to use with smarted
The smart of defeat prompted the futile reply.
Some of the young deputies, just fresh from the war and smarting under a sense of humiliation, were very violent in their abuse of any Royalist and particularly Bonapartist restoration.
He would make Jack smart for his arrogance, his insolence, his cursed condescension so soon as they were back among the Caribees.
Yet I could picture the scene, the leaderless mob surging blindly forward, each man vocal in his own tongue, swaying with rage, many smarting with wounds, uncertain where we had disappeared, yet all alike crazed with a desire to attain the open deck.
When Fred Brydon went to his work that morning, smarting from the angry words that Evelyn had hurled at him, everyone he met noticed how gloomy and burdened he seemed to be; how totally unlike his former easy good- nature and genial cheerfulness was his strange air of reserve.
Bella, the parrot, lives with Mrs. Morris, and is as smart as ever.
Lady Everard, very smart in black, sparkling with diamonds, was already there with Aylmer.
"Smart at washin' gold out?" "Smarter at pickin' it out."
That son of your'n, FRITZ, is smarter than a 2 year old heifer.
" "How many men, about?" "Well, there's right smart on to a million, I reckon.
Her patient evidently remembered the fall she had had in her sister's room, and possibly the smart to her cheek when it touched the hot iron.
"Johnnie, you're mighty smart about some things; cain't you see that a cotton mill is bound to either kill or cripple a child?
The blow smarted like the touch of a whip
The hospital's still right smart over yonder in the trees.
" "Then I will sing thee a song of a right good knight of Arthur's court, and how he cured his heart's wound without running upon the dart again, as did thy Phillis; for I wot she did but cure one smart by giving herself another.
Ill and weary, all his nerves smarting with terrific fatigue, as the eyes smart before tears, and yet her ministering had made him a little boy again....
"I was big enough to do right smart behind a plow.
But his soul smarted within him.