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  • Three women share the role of the victimized daughter: Audrey Brisson as The Girl, the youngster who inspires the devil's lust; Patrycja Kuwajska as The Wild, who flees into the forest to escape him, then survives for seven years before her rescue by the love-smitten "Scottish" prince; and Éva Magyar, as The Woman, who becomes the prince's bride before being forced by devilish malice to endure seven more years in the wilderness.

    Leo Stutzin: 'Wild Bride' At The Berkeley Rep: Serious Enchantment Leo Stutzin 2011

  • There was little to distinguish this larking showpiece from her performances as the same love-smitten teenage boy she played in San Francisco and New York in 1972-73.

    Singing Into Retirement David Littlejohn 2012

  • Three women share the role of the victimized daughter: Audrey Brisson as The Girl, the youngster who inspires the devil's lust; Patrycja Kuwajska as The Wild, who flees into the forest to escape him, then survives for seven years before her rescue by the love-smitten "Scottish" prince; and Éva Magyar, as The Woman, who becomes the prince's bride before being forced by devilish malice to endure seven more years in the wilderness.

    Leo Stutzin: 'Wild Bride' At The Berkeley Rep: Serious Enchantment Leo Stutzin 2011

  • To Eli, he looked a little like a love-smitten boar hog courting a doe.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • When I stopped worrying about whether McCartney's lyrics could be anything more than the random jottings of a love-smitten pothead, I learned to love his solo music.

    "Someone's knocking at the door. Somebody's ringing the bell. Do me a favor. Open the door. Let 'em in. Ann Althouse 2009

  • But the fact is that every day and always, this love-smitten and middle-aged gentleman was thinking about Mrs. Osborne, and his whole heart was bent upon doing her good.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Had the visitors been love-smitten, they would have immediately clasped their opposite numbers and proceeded to actions that would have freaked out Woe Betide, for all that her adult selves were thoroughly familiar with them.

    Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

  • Tithonus once, the tale was, rose-armed Dawn, love-smitten, carried off to the world's end, handsome and young then, yet in time grey age o'ertook him, husband of immortal wife.

    languagehat.com: THE NEW SAPPHO. 2005

  • He could even take being wakened in the middle of the night by a love-smitten earl.

    LADY of SKYE PATRICIA CABOT 2001

  • He knew perfectly well that Dish had been love-smitten, and that it had been his undoing.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

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