In childhood I learned the words of the prophet: 'Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
"They Call Me Carpenter"
Upton Sinclair
The ice flew about me, but I continued to smite, the exercise making me hot and renewing my spirits, and in an hour-but it took me an hour-I had chopped, hacked, and beaten one of the pumps pretty clear of its thick crystal coat.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
He who had striven, without a commission, himself to smite the Egyptian and lead out Israel, is the same self-reliant, heroic, not too discreet person still.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick