All on a sudden she sank down fainting, as if crushed beneath some heavy burden, and at the same moment her friend felt himself relieved from the weight of sorrow which oppressed him, and his heart overflowing with extraordinary happiness.

I could do nothing but sit down and lean fainting against the rocks.

and desire had grown faint in my heart; all I wished for was that you should hear, that you should understand; with this wish Semur was full.

The feathery coronets of several of his comrades were seen above the bushes at some distance: and again the father raised his son, who now hung fainting in his arms, and hurried, with renewed speed, towards the shore.

I fell half-fainting upon my bed, and for the first time I slept, with a perfect sense of being all alone, a sleep like that of a beast or of an assassin, until evening came.

A fierce contempt for her pink-and-white, and tears and eyelashes and attitudes, came upon her; then a sudden sickening jealousy that turned her faint where she sat.

A star or two already shone faint in the lower spaces.

The Italian caught an arm, and as they dragged him half-fainting toward the fire, Brail struck at him with a heavy boot.

Thus, if a person were the subject of some emotion which caused fainting, the explanation would be that the impression had been conveyed to the brain, and from the brain to the heart by the pneumogastric nerves.

At length one swell brought it nearer, Mr. Raleigh's arms snatched the slight form and drew her half-fainting into the boat, a cloak was tossed after, and one by one the remainder followed; they were all safe, and some beggared.

The blood ebbs, the senses sleep, "the casement slowly grows a glimmering square," breath gradually fails, unconsciousness faints into deeper unconsciousness, and that is all.

desunir, to separate, sunder, disunite. desvanecer, to cause to vanish; to clear up, unravel, dissipate; su cabeza, to make one giddy, affect with dizziness, make one's head swim; refl., to vanish, evaporate, disappear; to faint, fall fainting.

Often had De Montespan feigned a faint in the days when she wished to disarm the anger of the king.

She gathered from these pages a faint and hasty yet not altogether unfaithful conception of the strange revolution that had occurred in the character, pursuits, and position of her former companion.

He is an old man, with seeing and hearing faint, and understanding dulled to childishness, yet he wishes to live on, and Feels not his gout nor palsy; feigns himself Younger by scores of years; flatters his age With confident belying it; hopes he may With charms, like Aeson, have his youth restored. Ben Jonson, Volpone or the Fox (1605).

This Mike did, winnin' by a yard; then he acted as if he was all infaked a faint, and I doused him with a sombrero of water from the creek.

It was a clear, cool, summer night, with the breeze just stirring in the trees and keeping up a faint, unceasing whispering among the leaves.

It proves, however, to be Dorinda, who has throughout followed his chase disguised in the rough wolf-skin coat of a herdsman, and who is now led fainting on to the scene by Lupino.

" In his heart, as he listen'd, there leapt the wild joy And the hope and the love through his eyes spoke in fire, On that bloom, on that blush, gazed delighted the boy; The maiden-she faints at the feet of her sire! Here the guerdon divine, there the danger beneath; He resolves!

And these three also April hid away, Leaving the Spring faint with Mercutio.

They tore his body to pieces, and, having cut off his head, compelled his wife to kiss the scarcely cold lips, and then left her fainting on the pavement still covered with his blood.

The ice was still there, but over it lay a faint, a very faint, filmy sheen of water.

There he let her down; she lay half-fainting against his breast.

but it's a spine in the back,makes him kinder' faint by spells, so's he loses his conscientiousness all to once; so he left the chickens 'n' things for Melindy to boss, 'n' she got somethin' else into her head, 'n' she left the door open one night, and them ten turkeys they up and run away, I'xpect they took to the woods, 'fore Melindy brought to mind how't she hadn't shut the door.

His children were sleeping, and he bent over them and pressed a kiss upon the cheek of each, murmuring a faint: "God bless you!"