Head over heels in love

Usage examples of smitten.

As she curled into the thick warmth of her own bed, she realized she was quite lethally smitten with the knight.

I think he will worry now, and soon will send word that a brave and noble knight is smitten with Anya of Winterbourne.

He was smitten by her beauty, could care less whether she was a virgin.

Then Wang knew he spoke of Pear Blossom and he was smitten with a strange jealousy.

Her other predictions had passed him by, but this one had smitten him.

We have seen them buffeted and smitten, without a resting-place for the soles of their feet, and perishing in hunger and thirst and nakedness and the want of all things.

Since the day he came here, five-and-twenty years ago, has God saved him or smitten him?

Ben Aboo gnawed his lip and scowled darkly, and in the flush of his anger, his consternation being over, he would have fallen upon Israel with torrents of abuse, but that he was smitten suddenly by a new and terrible thought.

Muslimeen, derided by the Jews, spat upon and smitten by the people whose hungry mouths he had fed with bread.

It is equally difficult to understand why Jesus submitted to such an insult, and why Peter should not have smitten down its perpetrator.

And yet what meaning would her words have other than the monstrous one which had smitten him as a blackjack?

He felt as if some loved one had smitten him over the back of the head with a sandbag.

While the Queen Rabesqurat prated in this wise with flushed face, Shibli Bagarag was smitten with the greatness of his task, and reproached his soul with neglect of it.

And he laughed and clucked and chuckled, and the triumph of Shagpat was to him as a new jewel in his crown outshining all others, and he was for awhile as the cock smitten with the pride of his comb, the peacock magnified by admiration of his tail.

I had been smitten by a sudden madness, a supernatural and solemn frenzy, wrought not by human means.