How To Use Smitten In A Sentence

He became the icon that God had to smite to be able to save us, and suddenly the Lamb of God was smitten! FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST
It's just that none of those festivals claims to be untarnished by commerce, unsmitten by celebrity, etc., etc. GreenCine Daily: Park City, 2/1.
Formerly women smitten with incubacy had frigid flesh even in the month of August. Là-bas
To the same purport is v. 8, for the transgression of my people was he smitten, the stroke was upon him that should have been upon us; and so some read it, He was cut off for the iniquity of my people, unto whom the stroke belonged, or was due. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
His campy gay stereotype act is hilarious, especially since he drops it with a roll of his eyes whenever the smitten guards aren't watching.

He was smitten and conceived an ambition to become a cartoonist. Times, Sunday Times
Ray is instantly smitten with the pretty and squeaky-clean Wendy, pursuing her with an undisguised lust, oblivious to the feelings of her boring husband.
The trembling women were smitten into an ecstasy of bewildered fear (as one of the words, 'affrighted' might more accurately be rendered), and his consolation to them, 'Be not affrighted, ye seek Jesus,' suggests that, in all the great sweep of the unseen universe, whatsoever beings may people that to us apparently waste and solitary space, howsoever many they may be, Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
I read the treatise through, and was so smitten with the accurate view it exhibited of the theatres of these days, that I immediately determined to transport myself, as well as I could, to the golden times of the _beheader of Mary Queen of Scots_. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
The smitten young translator began to learn Ukrainian, using dictionaries and poetry anthologies as her tools. Times, Sunday Times
Of that golden age, Cotton Mather himself, "smitten with a just fear of encroaching and ill-bodied degeneracies," sat down to write the history, recording in the _Magnalia_ "the great things done for us by our God," in the hope that he might thereby do something "to prevent the loss of the primitive principles and the primitive practices. Beginnings of the American People
`Because you think the daughter a smasher -- and you're smitten. THE GOLDEN LION
They looked totally smitten wading through the sludge. The Sun
A prince and princess, newly smitten with each other, are so transported with love that they rise into the air.
The ladies of her dorter were envious of her: Ralph Monterey, whom so many had tried to permanently net and been disappointed, was apparently quite smitten with a girl who had been at court for less than two weeks! The Frozen Heart
At the first stroke of the bell it was as if a magician's wand had smitten the dancers.
Was she so completely smitten by the side-splitting antics of the fast-rising TV stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet that she overlooked the foibles of the irrepressibly zany Herman Cain? Dear Barbara, Your A-List Needs Work
The monarch is smitten with Johnny, which could be a bit icky since (1) he is a minor and (2) an insect-human relationship based on physical attraction runs the risk of being classified as bestiality. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
After the first letter had come several years ago, their mother had forced Katrina to write him back, and ever since then, the smitten Chris had been barraging her with letters.
A Chorley teacher is quitting his life in Lancashire to work in Romania after becoming smitten with the country.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. Amos 4.
Eleventhly, God of his grace had pierced her heart, it is read that S. Clare for to dispend amorously the time that God had lent her, in especial she was determined that from the hour of mid-day unto evensong time, she would dispend all that time in thinking and beweeping the passion of Jesu Christ, and say prayers and orisons according thereto, after unto the five wounds of the precious body of Jesu Christ, as smitten and pierced to the heart with the dart of the love divine. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
But when they approached the stately brick colonial framed by an expansive front lawn and surrounded by forest, she was completely smitten.
It is the rare gardener who is not smitten by their array of brilliant colors and graceful forms.
Living proof that RNC prominence is fading and the ovine followers are dwindling in number since savvy people are beginning to see the light instead of being allowed to be smitten by blind fanaticism. Poll: New Jersey gubernatorial race tightens up
And if that threatened squall should burst its bonds and come shrieking and howling in fury across the surface of the sea, scourging it into a mad turmoil of foaming, leaping water and blinding spindrift, while the burnt-out crew of the schooner were making their passage across to the _Mercury_, it might be very bad for them; for even should they be fortunate enough to avoid capsizal, it might be exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, for the ship, smitten and bowed down by the might of the tempest, to pause and pick them up. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
Much of the media is currently smitten with the country's booming otaku culture.
I was instantly smitten with the immediate gratification.
Behind us, fair, light-smitten hills in dappled splendor lie, The Watchman and Other Poems
As soon as he saw her, he was smitten.
Smitten by her disinterestedness as well as by her beauty, Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar's daughter. Balzac
I'm betting most women in arranged marriages aren't quite so instantly smitten. REVIEW: Lamentation by Ken Scholes
This life dwelt in Him during His earthly ministry, though comparatively few availed themselves of it; His death set it abroach for all the world; the smitten rock yielded streams of living water; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit; from His throne He proclaimed Himself as He that liveth, though He became dead, and is alive forevermore. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
It was the tribute of overflowing life, & youth, health, ignorance of care—it was the tribute of free, unscarred, unsmitten nature to the good God that gave it! Mark Twain
Leprosy is used in the Scriptures to symbolize sin, and was sometimes inflicted by the Lord as a punishment for sin, as, for instance, in the case of Miriam, Moses' sister, who was smitten with leprosy because of her improper attitude and disrespectful language to and about her brother Moses.
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The elderly widower was so smitten that before they reached journey's end he proposed to her -- and was refused. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
Afterward, when the bells rung to Mattines, the Sexton entring the Church with a light in his hand (where hee beheld a light of greater splendor) and suddenly espied the sumptuous bedde there standing: not only was he smitten into admiration, but hee ranne away also very fearefully. The Decameron
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But Colonel Kirke only gave command that I should be smitten in the mouth; which office Bob, whom I had flung so hard out of the linhay, performed with great zeal and efficiency. Lorna Doone
The smitten couple, who have been romancing for six years, got engaged in March this year in Paris' Eiffel Tower.
And at the first recounter, said Sir Kay, he smote me down from my horse and hurt me passing sore; and when my fellow, Sir Dinadan, saw me smitten down and hurt he would not revenge me, but fled from me; and thus he departed. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Smitten with Angel, a high-maintenance diva, Troy vows to relinquish the life of a skirt-chaser if only he can get Angel in his arms.
Ah, yes, to be sure we were heroes, and I too (though now soft and self-conscious) played an Homeric part upon the yard, was bold, and afraid, and "funked" it with any god-smitten, panic-driven half-god by A Tramp's Notebook
JK Rowling has apparently revealed that Dumbledore was smitten with Grindelwald and was gay. Dumbledore is gay?
_mima_ "water," in Hebrew _shâmayim_ and _mayim_, which we gather from the cuneiform spelling have been wrongly punctuated by the Masoretes, as well as _khaya_ "living," the Hebrew _khai_, and _makhsû_, "they have smitten him," the Hebrew _makhatsu_. Patriarchal Palestine
We are 31, we met online a year ago and were completely smitten. The Sun
The coming-in of the mailboat was the one large public event of a summer day, and I was disappointed at seeing none of my intimate friends but Johnny Bowden, who had evidently done nothing all winter but grow, so that his short sea-smitten clothes gave him a look of poverty. William's Wedding
The temporary village that springs up on Medicine Lake for four weeks in the dead of winter isn't urban or suburban, it's a unique kind of frostbitten, art-smitten community you won't find anywhere else. Minnesota Premier Publications - Southwest Journal Stories
Smitten by wanderlust and lured by India, Mark Shand has travelled across much of the country.
That El Comandante was smitten by the First Lady was immediately apparent.
We met five years ago and I was instantly smitten. The Sun
Poor Nathan was smitten - completely infatuated with Amelia Dawson.
She looked so perfect and flawless and she seemed utterly smitten with Bernard.
According to Greek mythology, the God of Eros supposedly would strike a person in the eyes and make them smitten with their beloved.
But religious fervour had to give way to material necessities, and the Tlascalan idols remained unsmitten, although their human sacrifices were somewhat stayed. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
He returned unsmitten from his dip to find she had made a sheet out of her robe to cover the spiky shore grasses, and lay waiting for him upon it. Fortune's Favorites
Smitten, Travis hopes to win Lola's affections by heading cross country with her in a traveling rock band as their number one roadie!
They look totally smitten with one another and I do wish them all the best. The Sun
He claims to be smitten with Vera and strikes a deal with Ford to have a private, paid meeting with the young femme fatale.
At the end of the night the beautiful maiden is trying to set up her handmaiden with a young burly blacksmith so she distracts the young guard with her feminine wiles and he is smitten.
He sounded tolerantly amused, as brothers still unsmitten frequently are by the eccentricities of lovers. The Devil's Novice
Pals say the pair are'totally smitten '. The Sun
There was one grand amateur musical evening, at the end of which Edwin imparted to his sisters that he thought Harcourt was smitten with Rose, and that, as he was a good sort of fellow, and had never had any particular father and mother, he could marry to please himself, and a good contralto voice might catch him any day. The Semi-Detached House
Smitten by the omnific hand from the fair fields of the paradise of God, hear him cry as he flies like a mighty scintillating spark struck off from its native sun, as Milton describes: Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
However that may be, messieurs, to instruct you completely in this matter, I must divide the creatures smitten with incubacy or succubacy into two classes. Là-bas
His voice died in a hard sob of imploring agony, -- smitten to the very soul by a remorse greater than he could bear, his strength failed him, and he fell senseless, face forward among the flowers of the Prophet's field; .. flowers that, circling snowily around his dark and prostrate form, looked like fairy garlands bordering Ardath
Humanity, gripped in the clutches of its devastating power, is smitten by the evidence of its resistless fury.
This was quite different from her approach of a dog she was smitten with: all upright, tail high, posture impeccable, wags soldierlike in their rhythm—or a dog friend—a looser, janglier approach, and even an open-mouthed grab toward their face, or a gentle bump with her hip along their body. INSIDE OF A DOG
Women smitten with hystero-epilepsy see phantoms beside them in broad daylight and mate with them in a cataleptic state, and every night couch with visions that must be exactly like the fluid creatures of incubacy. Là-bas
He is soon smitten by her charms and a wedding between American wealth and English social cachet takes place. Times, Sunday Times
More than a few wine-producing regions have a grape they like to call their own: South Africans pine for pinotage, Aussies are smitten with Shiraz; and Californians are zany for Zinfandel.
The story's about a man smitten with love for his wife's cousin.
Sedgwick was wildly smitten, himself, but he kept his wits about him enough to watch and try to fathom what in the bearing of the old men for some inexplainable reason disturbed him. The Wedge of Gold
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The traveller from America who steams into Queenstown harbour in early summer is presented (for a consideration) with a cabbage-leaf full of pale-hued berries, sweet and juicy, any one of which would outbulk a dozen of those that used to grow in Virginia when Pocahontas was smitten with the charms of Captain John Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
By the time they finally decided to live together, Timothy Duane would be totally smitten. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
I refuse to allow any verdict upon her which takes no account of her peace, and resignation, and deep and unsmitten faith. The Epistles of St. Peter
No wonder the Western world has been smitten by the sari, and every woman with a smidgen of sartorial savvy wants one.
He was smitten with love for this young girl
In the title episode, the creatures of the "100 Aker Wood" help Christopher Robin after he has been bitten by a smitten (the love bug). Edmonton Sun
Making their job a real chore is the fact that he keeps showing up in Trish's shadow, so smitten is he.
According to friends, the actress is completely smitten with her new man.
Struck and smitten seeing fate and death, he fell heroicly from the sword. Essays and Miscellanies
Tom, who stood by her, idly spinning the curtain tassel, followed the familiar figure with his eye, and seeing how gray the hair had grown, how careworn the florid face, and how like a weary old man his once strong, handsome father walked, he was smitten by a new pang of self-reproach, and with his usual impetuosity set about repairing the omission as soon as he discovered it. An Old-Fashioned Girl
The scribes, perhaps those who had earlier lost face and are by now smitten with envy, aggressively confront Jesus about his right to offer forgiveness to the paralytic.
No plausive gift; the smitten head, stopped throat, The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations
How King Pelles was smitten through both thighs because he drew the sword, and other marvellous histories. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
A source told America's New York Post newspaper: ‘They've been dating for about two weeks and they seem smitten with each other.’
He was completely smitten at the time and was boasting how he'd met the perfect woman. The Sun
Smitten with Rousseau's conception of the perfectness of the savage state, and the essential abortiveness of all civilization, Mr. Fuseli looks at all our little attempts at improvement, with a spirit that borders perhaps too much upon contempt and indifference. Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
With that sword wert thou smitten, O Gunnar, and the sharp point pierced thee through. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
For a moment he imagined himself smitten with her, an illusion that dissipated almost immediately, leaving the bad taste of guilt. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Yet because of their huge age gap, the smitten pair are constantly ridiculed in the street. The Sun
I was totally smitten and told her. The Sun
Give this girl a gimmick, leave her to fiddle and footer about with it into the wee small hours and, in no time, she's smitten.
Freeman 1:23–31, who idealizes GW, concludes that he was smitten but that it went no further than that. George Washington’s First War
Some labor under the delusion that Alaska is smitten with almost perpetual darkness in winter and never ending light in the summer.
Strephon appears by his Letter to be a very cholerick Lover, and irrevocably smitten with one that demurrs out of Self-Interest. Spectator, June 12, 1711
With her telescope I scanned the ducks and was immediately smitten by the goldeneyes.
Offers of marriage arrived in the post along with party invitations from hostesses who were smitten with his blend of notoriety and camp. Times, Sunday Times
Its effects were such as could not last, or could not be farther evolved; they were the expression of youth musing away from its environment and smitten with the glories of a world afar and beyond, the great world, the fine world, the impurpled world of romantic motives and passions. Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
Therefore, if he were to seek a match in a proper spirit, he should weigh the ancestry, and not be smitten by the looks; for though looks were a lure to temptation, yet their empty bedizenment had tarnished the white simplicity of many a man. The Danish History, Books I-IX
According to Saumade, so smitten with the sport he's written a book on it, Spanish tauromachy reflects its aristocratic inventors, man asserting superiority over the untamed ‘savage’.
Team Fabulous comes away completely smitten. The Sun
Then, too, the greenfinch is overtaken by happy languor, and falters in her flight, smitten with the April madness. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
Unbearably smitten, Oscar flees his father's Thanksgiving party to drown his sorrows in a midtown bar.
You ` ve got airlines and travel industry lobbyists who are so smitten with the idea of ramming as many foreign tourists into the country as possible despite knowing that we have no way of tracking these people to make sure they go back when they ` re supposed to go back. Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores
She was totally smitten with Steve.
There she was attacked by the plague demon, Namtar, smitten with disease from head to foot and kept prisoner by the Queen.
One pal said: 'He is completely smitten. The Sun
Then wise Pallas is struck down by the dagger of error, and the charming Pierides are smitten by the truculent tyranny of madness. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
It feels like a mortal blow to Jason, who was smitten the day he met her.
Maybe the Prince truly will be smitten with love for Clara, your own Cinderella ! CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
Smitten, Freddy later haunts Higgins' house and serenades Eliza with the beautiful melody, ‘On the Street Where you Live’.
Tom is instantly smitten and pursues her with gentle persistence that borders on obsessive, finally winning her over and, in the fullness of a few days, popping the big question.
Back then He would have smitten the villain before he even had a chance to attack His servant.
Harsh grided shield and war-helm like the tempest-smitten bell, Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
Princess, all but melted to my yearning, and with her laughter, that was as silver strings by buds and blossoms smitten, all but made lunacy of my lover's ardency. THE PRINCESS
Sordello, lured incessantly towards abstract ideals, lost in their contemplation, is smitten, like Aprile, into helplessness by the multitudinousness of the images he sees, refuses to descend into real life and submit to its limitations, is driven into the slothfulness of that dreaming imagination which is powerless to embody its images in the actual song. The Poetry Of Robert Browning
I believe that after the scope of the burlesque made itself clear, there was no one there, including the burlesquer himself, who was not smitten with a desolating dismay. Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
Nobody doubts that the pair are smitten, of course. Times, Sunday Times
Margalo is a wounded bird with huge limpid eyes, and Stuart is smitten.
First a caveat: While I harbor little affection for nor feel any affinity with the corrupt establishment of the Democratic Party, I don't believe, as is the case with the present leadership of the Republican party, they're a klavern of insane, death-smitten apocalypticists. Midterm Elections 2006: It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black
Maybe the Prince truly will be smitten with love for Clara, your own Cinderella! CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
He admits with a cheeky grin that he was instantly smitten by the blonde bombshell in the'white dress with a big split up the side. The Sun
The small-pox is a very grievous and painful disease, and would be much more terrible than it is but that we know the extremity of it ordinarily lasts but a few days; how grievous then was the disease of Job, who was smitten all over with sore boils or grievous ulcers, which made him sick at heart, put him to exquisite torture, and so spread themselves over him that he could lie down no way for any ease. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Was it patriotic pride or was he simply simply smitten? Times, Sunday Times
Without warning or presage the still evening air was smitten and made softly musical by the pealing of a distant chime, calling vespers to its brothers in Antwerp's hundred belfries; and one by one, far and near, the responses broke out, until it seemed as if the world must be vibrant with silver and brazen melody; until at the last the great bells in the The Black Bag
Ted gets ever more gooey over Emmett, who is initially unreceptive but ultimately smitten.
Mankind will pardon _me_, a native of that country, if smitten with a just fear of encroaching and ill-bodied _degeneracies_, I shall use my modest endeavors to prevent the _loss_ of a country so signalized for the _profession_ of the purest _Religion_, and for the _protection_ of Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
And maybe it was the booze, or the whole lovely day, but Mahoney was smitten. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
It's got not one, but two love triangles: Thomas, a therapist, falls in love with a married attorney at the same time that Anna, one of his married patients, is smitten by a writer working on a novel called "Abkhazian Dominoes. Five books for Valentine's Day
How incomprehensible to the unsmitten, too, must other aspects of relative size seem. Times, Sunday Times
It is not thy refinement makes thee despise him; it is thy own vulgarity; and if we dare not search ourselves close enough to discover the low breeding, the bad blood in us, it will one day come out plain as the smitten brand of the _forcat_. Weighed and Wanting
But how shouldst thou be unsmitten of passion and thou a sojourner in the land of Bassorah? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
When subsequently inoculated with virus-containing matter, they became smitten with the disease.
Indeed, so smitten is she by alternative therapies that there were reports during the summer of a mercy dash across the country so that she did not have to go without her strawberry leaf tea.
Dick Forrest was smitten at the same instant with joy and anxiety — joy in the glorious beast pacing down between the lilac hedges; anxiety in that the stallion might have awakened the girl who laughed from the round wooden frame on his wall. CHAPTER I
Men died heart-broken, unsmitten; men wept with the cry in the throat, Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
The smitten pair, who began dating in 2003, celebrated their engagement by canoodling in a Los Angeles restaurant, surrounded by friends.
Aside from the blunt-edged rockers, Smitten features an equally repellant set of languid piano pop.
There's must be a wealthy society dame (preferably played by Margaret Dumont) who is entirely smitten with Groucho, though he walks all over her.
They were totally smitten with each other.
A prince and princess, newly smitten with each other, are so transported with love that they rise into the air.
This hypocrit is upset because Family Guy had a show on sunday night in wich a teen is smitten with a girl who has down syndrome. Think Progress » Texas State Climatologist disputes his own state’s climate-denier petition.
A source said: 'She is completely smitten. The Sun
The range of this portrait painter's palette is from pitchiest black to most dazzling white, as of snow smitten by sunlight. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John

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