A hungry populace, smarting under a sense of injustice, would continually have been a potential, and possibly an actual, source of danger to property.
As a result we shall be left high and dry, and people in various localities will be left smarting.
At the same time those of us who belong to the engineering industry are smarting under a grievance.
Those of us who belong to my generation in particular are smarting as a result of the way we were treated.
There have been many complaints, particularly about smarting eyes and running noses caused by sulphuric acid spray from the cooling system.
Still smarting somewhat from the last election, we take well and gratefully receive those remarks.
They have come with a grievance and a smarting under a sense of injustice very often against courts of summary jurisdiction.
Clearly, they are still smarting from their defeat on both counts.