Twas then great Malborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.

Or is it that poor girl's sin who was just now in Heale's shop, talking to Miss Heale safe and sound, that she is carried back into it, in half-an-hour's time, fainting, shrieking?

She was left in a fainting state in one of the upper rooms by a female attendant, who deserted her mistress to save herself.

But the next moment he appeared at the window, bearing the fainting female form in his arms, and with extraordinary dexterity obtaining a firm footing and hold of the ladder, descended in safety.

The pairtheir sufferings were light, Fainting they sank, and died of fright.

Look at this husband warding off the dart which the grim, draped skeleton is aiming at the breast of his fainting wife.

He fell back, fainting.

Faith had succeeded in clearing a circle about the fainting girl, and was just looking for something with which to fan her, when two peoplea man and a womanentered the door of the cloak-room, and stopped short when they saw the unusual spectacle.

But this one was excusable, and I may have slandered him; for ague had shaken the life almost out of him so often that shaking was become natural, and little else could be expected of him; and, furthermore, a pale face or unsteady joints are not always weathercock to a fainting spirit.

She had sunk into a chaircollapsed into it, rather, and lay there half fainting with one arm thrown across her face.

Just then a police officer appeared and dragged the half fainting boy off, the old gentleman walking beside him, Oliver protesting his innocence as they went.

While the case was proceeding, Oliver fell to the floor in a fainting fit, and as he lay there the Magistrate uttered his penance, "He stands committed for three months of hard labour.

Mrs. Carteret tottered under the stress of her emotions, and would have fallen, had not Miller caught and sustained her with his arm until they reached the house, where he turned over her fainting form to Carteret at the door.

The water revived his father more than all the rum or spirits I had given him, for he was just fainting with thirst.

Who followed the rejected King of Israel, as his fainting footsteps trod the road to Calvary?

" Out of her chair to the floor tumbled Madam Conway, fainting entirely away, while Maggie, stepping to the door, called for help.

" The voice aroused the half-fainting woman, and, withdrawing her hand from Maggie's grasp, she replied, "Turn away your face, Margaret Miller, so I cannot see the hatred settling over it, when I tell you what I must.

When she returned, she saw that you had changed your place, and she said to Ethel Eastwick, "Oh, I'm fainting.

Tears about this, and sighs about that; fainting fits because I happen to take a chair next to yours.

[Written in the night of the 17th and 18th of June, as I lay, severely wounded and helpless in a wood, expecting to die.] "My deep wound burns;my pale lips quake in death, I feel my fainting heart resign its strife, And reaching now the limit of my life, Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath!

Saint by her face she should be: with such looks The queen of heaven, perchance, slow pacing came Adown our sleeping wards, when Dominic Sank fainting, drunk with beauty:she is most fair!

The cool summer breeze, laden with grateful perfume, fans the hot brow of the slave, weary and fainting beneath his task, as freely as it does that of his pompous and lordly master.

My fainting, I presume, saved my life, for the felon was in that state of maniacal desperation which nothing but a perfect unresistingness could have evaded.

I was recovered just in time to witness the poor wretch, whose prop and consolation I had undertaken to be, carried, exhausted and in nerveless horror, to the ignominious treehis head drooping on his breast, his eyes opening mechanically at intervals, and only kept from fainting and utter insensibility by the unused and fresh morning air, which breathed in his face, as if in cruel mockery.

He felt the sweat break out upon his face as he thought of Marion being in that mob, tired and fainting with her terrible day's experienceperhaps dying under the panic-stricken feet of those stronger than herself.