Smarting

Examples

• Elliston, still smarting with the knocks, kicks and scratches he had got in his scuffle with the obstinate coachman, was not in a very gentle humour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The dolls' dressmaker found it delicious to trace the screaming and smarting of Little Eyes in the distorted writing of this epistle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I was still smarting from my own disappointment; yet this scene oppressed me even to terror, nor could I interrupt his access of passion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At about this time, I began to observe that he was getting flushed in the face; as to myself, I felt all face, steeped in wine and smarting. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I had left England smarting under a sense of injury, from—from—well, it was about a woman; and I swore never to return to it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is my own conviction that these impressions under which you are smarting are messengers from God to bring you back to the true Church. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was rather hard lines that while he was smarting under this disappointment he should be treated as if he could have helped it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And yet this last strike, under which I am smarting, has been respectable. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• As, however, nitric acid by itself sometimes occasions a good deal of smarting, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.

Editor: Martin