“And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.”
Bible
“The word of my lord is the sword for world.”
Toba Beta
“He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just like a thief in the night.”
“And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.”
“Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil”
Charles Simmons
“In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.”
Alexander Smith
“When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a”
Harold Nicolson