Example (21) contains the expressionsmiteto death.
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When dealing with local government, history has a way of rearing up and smiting one.
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I hope that those who are smitten with the idea of "food at any price" will bear in mind that lesson.
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He spoke of the lives which had been given in many districts smitten with plague and in other districts smitten with famine.
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And they say that this is the best means to up andsmiteit.
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Every time we have been smitten on the one cheek and have turned the other cheek they have smacked us on that cheek even harder.
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On the contrary, we must expect that the terrible foe we are smiting so heavily will make frenzied efforts to retaliate.
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She saved herself—if, as we hope she has done— because when the invasion came every man, woman and child rose up and smote the intruder.
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They will arise in their might andsmiteyou who are their oppressors.
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Suggestions have been made that additional contributions should be levied neither on workers nor employers in areas smitten by severe unemployment.
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If their consciences are smitten by what has gone on, they must demand the inquiry which we are demanding.
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For we are again smitten by the scourge of war.
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Is a man smitten with chronic asthma to be put down as infirm?
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I am not smitten with the idea of arbitration.
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Let us punish the offenders; let ussmitethem hip and thigh; but do not let us victimise a class.
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