8 Verbs to Use for the Word swoon

The goad; a female shriek (right) rising out of the verbiage to attack a female swoon; a group of destructive insects.

But while love was thus stealing into the hearts of Aliena and Oliver, he was no less busy with Ganimed, who hearing of the danger Orlando had been in, and that he was wounded by the lioness, fainted; and when he recovered, he pretended that he had counterfeited the swoon in the imaginary character of Rosalind, and Ganimed said to Oliver, "Tell your brother Orlando how well I counterfeited a swoon."

" Greane's answer was a swift, confirming swoon.

Now Roger's blow had been full lusty and Sir Robert yet lay a-swoon, seeing which, divers of his company, casting down their arms, cried aloud for quarter; whereat the townsfolk shouted but the fiercer: "Slay them!

How long this swoon continued our young gentleman could never tell, but when he regained so much of his consciousness as to be aware of the things about him, he beheld himself to be confined in a room, the walls whereof were yellow and greasy with dirt, he himself having been laid upon a bed so foul and so displeasing to his taste that he could not but regret the swoon from which he had emerged into consciousness.

The old dramaturgy would certainly have ended the scene with a bang, so to speaka swoon or a scream, a tableau of desolation, or, at the very least, a piece of tearful rhetoric.

Don't neglect to water the lettuce, Nan, and don't overwork yourself, my little 'Martha.' Come" At this juncture, Solon suddenly went off, like "Mrs. Gamp," in a sort of walking swoon, apparently deaf and blind to all mundane matters, except the refreshments awaiting him ten miles away; and the benign old pastor disappeared, humming "Hebron" to the creaking accompaniment of the bulgy chaise.

He deems that you are dead, and every day he beweeps your swoon in the chapel.

8 Verbs to Use for the Word  swoon