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• Once more the Etonian smote, and smote hard; but this ball was not quite the same as the first, although it appeared identical. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
• Right and left he smote, and they who had been most bitter in their jealousy of Atalanta, the two brothers of his own mother, were laid low in death Tidings of the slaying of the boar had been brought to Althæa by swift messengers, and she was on her way to the temples bearing gifts to the gods for the victory of her son, when she beheld the slow-footed procession of those who bore the bodies of the dead. —  A Book of Myths
• Deftly she smote, and drave On, and so paddled swiftly in its wake The good ash gleamed and fell; the forward ranks Gave passage; once again she smote, again Paddled, nor passed, but paddling ever neared The mournful guardian of the Sacred Goal Hewing and hacking. —  Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses
• These charged the Romans furiously, so that they gave way; but when M. Valerius, brother of the great Poplicola, saw this, he spurred his horse against Titus, and rode at him with spear in rest; and when Titus turned away and fled, Valerius rode furiously after him into the midst of the Latin host, and a certain Latin smote him in the side as he was riding past, so that he fell dead, and his horse galloped on without a rider. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
• Then Sohrab with his sword smote Rustum's helm 495 Nor clove its steel quite through; but all the crest He shore° away, and that proud horsehair plume 497 Never till now defiled, sank to the dust; And Rustum bow'd his head°; but then the gloom 499 Grew blacker, thunder rumbled in the air 500 And lightnings rent the cloud; and Ruksh, the horse, Who stood at hand, utter'd a dreadful cry No horse's cry was that, most like the roar Of some pain'd desert-lion, who all day Hath trail'd the hunter's javelin in his side 505 And comes at night to die upon the sand. —  Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems

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