Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Smitten or stricken with terror; terrified.
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Examples
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Essex flats to the only part of East Anglia with which I was familiar, and gave me a vision of burning farmhouses, and terror-smitten country-folk fleeing blindly before a hail of bullets, and the pitiless advance of legions of fair-haired men in long coats of a kind of roan-gray, buttoned across the chest with bright buttons arranged to suggest the inward curve to an imaginary waist-line.
The Message 1912
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A little garter snake crept under the fence beneath him and disappeared in the underbrush; a rabbit progressing timidly on his travels by a series of brilliant dashes and terror-smitten halts, came within a few yards of him, sat up with quivering nose and eyes alight with fearful imaginings -- vanished, a flash of fluffy brown and white.
The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907
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A glint of something metallic on the floor drew his bewildered, terror-smitten gaze.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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By the dim light he peered with wide and terror-smitten eyes.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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The light of Uncle Michael's lantern fell full upon the wide-eyed, terror-smitten person of Emmy Lou, in her desk, awaiting, her miserable little heart knew not what horror.
The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. Various 1904
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The light of Uncle Michael's lantern fell full upon the wide-eyed, terror-smitten person of Emmy Lou, in her desk, awaiting, her miserable little heart knew not what horror.
Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart George Madden Martin 1901
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Then with the bitterness of one who was weak, ever terror-smitten and vanquished, Don Vigilio added: "I told you that you would end by doing what Monsignor Nani desired."
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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Then with the bitterness of one who was weak, ever terror-smitten and vanquished, Don Vigilio added: "I told you that you would end by doing what Monsignor Nani desired."
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871
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Then with the bitterness of one who was weak, ever terror-smitten and vanquished, Don Vigilio added: "I told you that you would end by doing what Monsignor Nani desired."
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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