177 examples of faintness in sentences

As I lay in that horrible giddiness and faintness, I loathed life and this continuance which brought me through one misery after another, and forbade me to die.

Marvelling at his inward and invisible foe, he struggled to his feet, and found himself contending with a faintness and dizziness heretofore utterly unknown to him.

A faintness came upon him, and he envied those eating at other tables.

If it be accompanied with a feeling of faintness, breathlessness, and palpitation of the heart, the exercise is too severe, and its continuance may do serious harm.

" It was true that a sudden faintness had come upon her, and she could not restrain the shudder which shook her.

I demanded, fighting hard against the accursed feeling of faintness that was again stealing through me.

As the men reached the road which leads through the plantation to the main gate of the prison, one of the warders in charge was overcome by an attack of faintness.

We may be our owne Justice: he that loses His Creadit (deere as life) through doubt or faintness Is guilty of a doble death, his name dies; He is onely pious that preserves his heire His honour when he's dead.

"Then it is all settled?" "Quite," said Clotilde, who had been seized by a faintness.

" Therewith he was filled with such anger that he was like one gone wode; wherefore he flung aside his shield and took his sword in both hands and rushed upon Sir Turquine and smote him again and again; and the blows he gave were so fierce that Sir Turquine waxed somewhat bewildered and bore aback, and held his shield low for faintness.

" To bezoar stone most subscribe, Manardus, and many others; "it takes away sadness, and makes him merry that useth it; I have seen some that have been much diseased with faintness, swooning, and melancholy, that taking the weight of three grains of this stone, in the water of oxtongue, have been cured."

Mademoiselle Charlotta, who knew she could not be capable of such an act of unpoliteness, without being compelled to it, asked if she were not well:on which Louisa entreated pardon, but owned a sudden faintness had come over her spirits, so that she was obliged to be rude in order to prevent being troublesome.

At the break in her immobility, a faintness came over Sylvia.

I was supplied with some dried meat and coffee, but the first mouthful occasioned nausea and faintness.

Not that he cared for the brandy, of which he seldom tasted; but he needed something to relieve the deathlike faintness which occasionally came over him, and which old Hagar, looking only at his mischievous eyes, failed to observe.

Give them faintness of heart, And let their bold courage melt away, And let them tremble at their destruction.

It was a mere passing faintness.

" Mrs. Sandford thought it was the cause of the faintness that was passing, but she prudently kept her discovery to herself.

But she probably did know that ammonia is good for just that sort of faintness which she must have experienced after taking the powder.

But most people know that ammonia in some form is good for faintness of this sort, even if they don't know anything about cyanides and" "Then it was cyanide?" interrupted Craig.

Then if you feel a faintness from the medicine the ammonia will quickly restore you.

The idea of my girl being trapped by such a villain as I firmly believed the man whom we knew as Sir Gilbert Carstairs to be was enough to shake every nerve in my body; but to think that she had been in his power for twenty-four hours, alone, defenceless, brought on me a faintness that was almost beyond sustaining.

Here little Pet exhibited signs of faintness, which good Mrs. Crull stopped by an instant application of the smelling bottle.

He sings of the white lily and the red rose, such knowledge of, such observation of nature is enough for the poet, and he sings and he trills, there is trilling magic in every song, and the song as it ascends rings, and all the air quivers with the ever-widening circle of the echoes, sighing and dying out of the ear until the last faintness is reached, and the glad rhymes clash and dash forth again on their aerial way.

The little doctor felt a faintness run through his veins, and a thrill of anger follow it.

177 examples of  faintness  in sentences