28 Verbs to Use for the Word faints

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

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.

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.

For quite five minutes we stood listening, then the silence chased the last faint echoes out across the cliffs, and we breathed again.

The Linley school-house had become as a fount of merry sound in the still night; then the loud chorus of the bells, diminishing as they went away, and breaking into streams of music and dying faint in the far woodland.

Wherefore dost thou faint? ROB.

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.

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.

" 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.

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

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!"

The Nissr, upborne at her wonderful climbing-angle toward the clouds painted by her searchlightclouds like a rippled, moonlit veil through which peeped faint starsspiraled above the Hudson and in a vast arc turned her beak into the south.

Now, the person of the Tzar is so sacred that it is forbidden by law even to represent him on the stage, and as to photographing hima Russian faints at the mere thought.

Is it the elfin laughter Of fairies riding faint and high, Beneath the branches of the moon, Straying through the starry sky?

And when she diessome grey, long, summer evening, When the bird shouts of childhood through the dusk, 'Neath night's faint tapersthen her body shall Lie stiff with silks of sixty thrifty years.

"Then you knew of it," said Faith, her voice sounding faint and far away.

And Uncle Sime chimed in, "We wuz took faint both on us jest as we got to the door and had to set down, and I mistrusted I should find cousin Zekiel there," and then happenin' to remember, both at the same time, they begun to say how they went for the good of the meetin' house.

The only thing I could do gracefully was to throw a faint.

Such conduct, sir, I would gladly recommend on the present occasion, on which I should be far from advising a faint, an irresolute, or momentary assistance, such supplies as declare diffidence in our own strength, or a mean inclination to please contrary parties at the same time, to perform our engagements with the queen, and continue our friendship with France.

28 Verbs to Use for the Word  faints