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.

Once more the combatants approached each other, this time with a little more feinting and dodging, which showed a certain amount of respect for the weight of each other's fists.

The two boys circled round and round, attacking, feinting, and guarding, and now one and then the other getting in a telling blow.

Jumbo wandered around on his knees, feinting for another Half-Nelson, and making many false plays to throw Ware off his guard.

Still the prince teased him, feinting here or there A thrust; and when he saw him helpless all, Let drive beneath his eyelids at his nose, And laid it bare to the bone.

They had circled round several times, when Zeigler thought he saw his chance, and feinting quickly, let fly with his left.

A quick step forward at the instant of feinting with his right, and Zeigler again let fly with his left straight from the shoulder.

To this Manner of parrying Seconde, there is but one Opposite, which is done by feinting below, and as the Adversary is going to cross your Sword, in order to parry, you must disengage by a little Circle, with the Hand in Seconde, which preventing the Enemy's Sword, gives an Opportunity of hitting him above, if the Wrist is lower than I have observed, or in Flanconnade, if the Wrist is high.

The Feint, to which I give no other Name, it being the most used, and to distinguish it from the others, is done by feinting from Quart to Tierce, with a little beat of the Foot, keeping the Body back: the Wrist must be raised in Quart, and the Button a little lower than the Pommel, near the Adversary's Blade; by which means you are covered, and can make your Thrust swifter.

The first is made after having bound the Sword, instead of pushing Seconde within, you must, upon the Parade, disengage and push Tierce over: If the Adversary is quick enough in his Parade to shun this double Motion, you must have recourse to the third, binding the Sword in the like Manner, and feinting above, return below.

Thus began an extraordinary battle in which there was little attempt at dodging, less at guarding and none at feinting.

Feinting, dodging, stopping, hitting, countering,little man's head not off yet.