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Smiting foes wherever they may be has a firm place in mythology, literature and history.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2021

The strange stars within her eyes began to glitter forth as they had when she had summoned the Smiting Thing.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

"Speak the word, and, master mine, As we charged on Tilly's line, And his Walloon lancers, Smiting through their midst we'll teach Civil look and decent speech To these boyish prancers!"

From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Carhart, Margaret Spraque

Him Oeneus also, warrior grey with age, Ascending to his chamber, and his doors725 Smiting importunate, with earnest prayers Assay'd to soften, kneeling to his son.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Raphael has forgotten this principle in his "Moses Smiting the Rock."

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various