518 examples of swooned in sentences

p. 226, l. 8 swooned.

Ultimately he got tired of the Calvinistic Geneveseone of whom is said to have swooned as he entered the roomand early in October set out with Hobhouse for Italy.

Then, tired out and enervated, he swooned into the arms of the medical orderly.

What happened after this Rohan never knew; for, overcome by frenzy and fatigue, he swooned away.

Before I had time to sign I swooned away.

And, truly, so soon as my Spirit and Reason perceived that we did be no more to suffer from the Evil Thing, I remembered that I did know that Mine Own had swooned.

But, indeed, the Humpt Men had no heed of her; but did make alway to come at me; and surely, in that moment, one of the Humpt Men reached me, and smote me so shrewd that sure he nigh crackt his monstrous hand upon mine armour, and did drive me backward upon the rock, and to make me bleed afresh, so that I was all in a daze and near swooned away.

And I swooned again and was lost to my pain; but did live presently to know.

Now many girls who had suffered as she had, and were thus surprised, would have screamed, or perhaps swooned, but she did neither, only flushing a little and saying, also quick and low, 'Let us go back to the house; I am alone.'

As it was, my arm was smashed, and I swooned away with the pain.

" Instantly History felt a bitter, stinging pain at the back of his neck, a pain that ran like fire down along his spine, and he gave a great shriek of terror and almost swooned away.

She was in the upper part of the house when the fire broke out, and was so much terrified that she swooned away, in which condition her attendant left her; nor was the latter so much to blame as might appear, for the stairs were burning at the time, and a moment's delay would have endangered her own safety.

The poor creature, when she was so frightened and tried to escape, and then sank and swooned away, and I caught her in my arms, and the party came all crowding round in terror and curiosity!little did I think, then, that the same fate was in store for me.

When I heard tell of his dame, I swooned for pure sorrow.

She swooned in her anguish, and lay back, pale and discoloured in the middle of the bed, without life or breath.

On the wedding-day Lucinda swooned, and a letter informed the bridegroom that she was married to Cardenio.

In God's good time she would come to her true nature; her eyes would lose that frightful, cold glitter; her lips would not feel so cold when she pressed them mechanically against his cheek; and that faint birth-mark, her mother swooned when she first saw, would fade wholly out,it was less marked, surely, now than it used to be!

When Bevillia tried to explain to her cousin that Emilius was no fit suitor for her hand, the young lady swooned twice before she seized Bevillia's "cruel meaning;" and thenah!

"What is it you want with me?" Again and again, in the stifling forecastle, Bedient had swooned from the heat, the vile air and his utter weakness.

she would have swooned, so tense was every nerve.

Lady Bazelhurst, watching at the window casement, almost swooned with amazement at the sight of them.

The orphan grasped a sharp knife in her hand, with which she had attempted to kill herself; and when her fainting hands refused the fearful service, she had swooned in despair.

But we had not been long at work, when the smell of the melting materials overcame me, and obligated me to go into the streets gasping for breath, where meeting with the cool air, I swooned away, and broke my face in the fall.

Katherine had swooned and did not hear Janet's assertion, nor did she hear the King's other order for the Duke of Ellswold.

And she would, as she said, really have swooned, if it had not been that during the six weeks she stayed in the disorderly house she only once ventured to close her eyes.

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