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  • At length he began to snore gently, when all at once a spark flew out of the fire and alighted smartingly on his face.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.

    Great Expectations 2007

  • The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost.

    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2004

  • We rode very fast across this, myself in some discomfort; for I was not a skilled rider: the movement exhausted me, while sweat ran down my forehead and dripped smartingly into my gritty, sun-cracked eyelids.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Shakir joined wildly in the sport, but would smartingly punish a liberty.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • In an instant the first guard turned back to avenge his companion; the youth twisted aside, and the cudgel-blow struck him smartingly across the shoulders.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • In an instant the first guard turned back to avenge his companion; the youth twisted aside, and the cudgel-blow struck him smartingly across the shoulders.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Now this part of my work I fulfilled with great feeling; for the terrors of the law, and guilt for my transgressions, lay heavy on my conscience: I preached what I felt, what I smartingly did feel; even that under which my poor soul did groan and tremble to astonishment.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost.

    Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case 1921

  • Not snugly in bed, but smartingly; each trying to find a cool place on the sheets, and things very much bedewed by the tears of The Seraph.

    Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920

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