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• He had also been Byron-smitten, and had followed in the wake of the author of "Childe Harold" to the Levant; had contemplated "the Niobe of nations" among the ruins of Rome; had witnessed the dance of the dervishes amid the fallen temples of Athens; and had "felt his patriotism gain force upon the plain of Marathon. —  The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion
• She says one of them saw me out yesterday morning, and was 'smitten'--that's what she calls it Eliza gave an affected laugh as she repeated the vulgar word, and coloured a little. —  What Necessity Knows
• "I would never dream of saying I was 'smitten'--with you For reward, her lips caressed his hair. —  Far to Seek A Romance of England and India
• The loving meet A group unbroken--smitten, who knows how One sitteth silent only, in his usual seat We gave him once that freedom. —  Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul
• Hastily the multitude enranked 55 itself for strife But the king was fear-smitten, awed with terror, as he looked upon the hostile host, the army of the Huns and Goths, that upon the river's bank at the boundary of the Roman realm was massing its 60 strength, an uncounted multitude. —  Elene. English

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