But the extreme faintness of the majority of these bodies places them practically beyond the reach of our meridian instrument, and the difficulty of observation is in many cases further increased by the large errors of the predicted places.

" Here, however, it seems to mean little more than a faintness from long fasting.]

He was still terribly weak, but, thank Godand Gloria!that hideous faintness in which he had been unable to stir hand or foot or to speak above a whisper had passed.

How long he lay in the joy of the realisation he never knew, but sleep or faintness at last overcame him.

70 As one who spies a serpent in his way, Glistening and basking in the summer ray, Disorder'd stops to shun the danger near, Then walks with faintness on, and looks with fear: So seem'd the sire, when, far upon the road, The shining spoil his wily partner show'd.

I thus obtain beautiful fiducial lines, which I can vary from extreme faintness to extreme brilliancy, by turning the gas lower or higher, according to the brightness of the image of the portrait, which itself depends on the density of the transparency that I am engaged upon.

Had it not been for the faintness under which I was laboring I could not have failed to identify you.