From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Without looking at him she spoke, in a voice quite firm, though it was faint from feebleness.
Through half the night his faint pulse beat, his faint breath came and went; but consciousness never more returned, and for ever he muttered only that one name, that name which was not her own.
Over the whole Valdarno there was everywhere a faint ethereal golden mist that rose from the water and the woods.
Now and then you could hear a clock striking in the distant village, the faint crow of a cock, the far-off voices of children calling to one another.
Whoever to the human soul can be, in ever so faint a sense, that which the birds were to the woman in the Merovingian woods, he, I think, has a true greatness.
He stood and looked long; hearing the faint echo of the music, seeing the effulgence of the light through the dark myrtle barrier.
But it is night as radiant as day, and ethereal as day can never be; on the hills the cypresses still stand out against the faint gold that lingers in the west; there is the odour of carnations and of acacias everywhere.
It crept on its heavy way across the faint crimson reflection from the glow of the sunken sun.
He heard the notes of a violin, quite faint and distant, but sweet as the piping of a blackbird amongst the white anemones of earliest spring.
The trail of Nello's steps, faint and obscure as it was under the new snow, went straightly along the accustomed tracks into Antwerp.
Above them was the cloudless weary blue; below them was the faint parched green; other colour there was none; one little dusky panting bird flew by pursued by a kite; that was the only change.
When the faint grey light of morning came creeping into the low and narrow room, which was not very early, as the nights now were far longer than the days, Talbot was the first of the sleepers to awake.
It was not at all an interesting interior, and had not the faint suggestions of artistic taste that redeemed Talbot's.
There was a thick silence, broken only by a faint far-off click of a shovel from the trenches.
He went forward to the open door, beyond which the burned-down fire gave only a faint red light, and his foot kicked something heavy on the floor.
The stars were of a piercing brilliance, and all along the black horizon flickered and leaped a faint rosy light.
The sound seemed faint at first, but grew louder, and after a minute she woke up, lifted her head, and listened.
A faint roll of thunder broke upon the unpleasant reverie into which the company had fallen, and Sir George's voice ordering the oil lamps to be lighted, somewhat reassured the more fearful among the spectators.
It was a terrible struggle between conflicting affections, and, unable to sustain it, she would have fallen in a faint upon the ground had not the strong arms of her lover supported her.
The down-draft was spinning him violently now, a lesson that rappelling was not for the faint of heart.
She barely remembered that rugged little island now; the images were faint and overly romantic.
He sighed, a faint hiss over the line, and then continued.
Through the light fog he could hear the faint beginnings of a dull, familiar roar, and he realized immediately it was choppers coming in.
He felt a faint vibration make its way down the stone walls of the conduit, then there was a hum of huge electric motors starting somewhere.
With a faintgroan he rubbed his glassy eyes and brushed back his mane of white hair.
I can see that," Mannheim responded dryly, his voice faint above the noise.
Through the doors came a faint humming, an acrid smell of heat, of stone and metal fumes.
At first they werefaint and scarcely perceptible; but, as his senses slowly began to return, disturbing thoughts came to him.
The beam from his 200-watt searchlight, which shot out through one of his three windows into the dark blue depths beyond, seemed faint indeed, yet it served to illuminate anything which crossed it, or on which it fell.
The silence was drawn so fine that the faint cheep of a night-bird sounded startlingly loud.
With his unaided eyes he could see a faint circle of violet light.
That was the faint strain of Catalonian blood in Pablo.
A faintnervous twitch of the chin and the eyelids--then absolute immobility.
His faint clipped accent, the tears in his eyes, told Kay that this man was one of Don Miguel's own people.
As she ran along the path that crossed the pasture between the cabin and the farmhouse, there was a tremulous smile on her face, but the faint twilight also showed tears in her eyes.
Whatever the Little Colonel undertook was thoroughly done, and when Magnolia emerged from the last vigorous rinsing, only a faint green tinge remained on the flaxen hair.
The faint strains of the distant violin swelled louder as Ida held out her hand from which she had taken all the rings but one.
So faint it's not much moah than the whispah of a smell, but there's always a touch of it about everything belonging to her.
There was no light, excepting a faint starlight, that served to show where the windows were.
She spent a little time examining the room and putting it into ship-shape order, and then suddenly remembered that she herself was both faint and hungry.
You should not be so greatly surprised; such things are common in Russia," said Vladimir Paulitch, with a faint smile.
That which ought to have been only a faint indication, assumed to my mind the importance of an overwhelming proof.
Men go to the opera because they hear there a faint expression in sound of this news which is never quite distinctly proclaimed.
You must not think that fate is so dark there, for even here I can see a faint reflected light over Concord, and I think that at this distance I can better weigh the value of a doubt there.
All that men have said or are is a very faint rumor, and it is not worth the while to remember or refer to that.
I have a faint recollection of your invitation referred to; but I suppose that I had no new nor particular reason for declining, and so made no new statement.
Suddenly I can come forward into the utmost apparent distinctness, and speak with a sort of emphasis to you; and the next moment I am so faint an entity, and make so slight an impression, that nobody can find the traces of me.
Fear not; the Dundees have faint hearts and much wampum.
Are not these faint flashes of light which sometimes obscure the sun their certain dawn?
The faint light he had seen before again illumined the room and cast its gleam upon the old gray wall.
He sprang down the path to reach the river-side; and before he was fairly in his boat and pulling up against the stream, I heard, far over here somewhere, those twofaint shots.
As though in answer to his suggestion, there suddenly appeared, high on the blank wall before him, the reflection of a faint light.
Every item of her attire was so pure and white and spotless; every fold and curve of her gown seemed charged with subtile, delicate fragrance, as faint and sweet as the shy and modest wood-violet's.
Danny waited to hear the faint click that would mean his death as the invisible ray sawed into his body.
The brick-colored tone was universal, with faint shades of difference in the earth and the houses, the metal and the people's garments.
Nela looked up in the girl's bright face and made a faint effort to resist the gentle hand that held hers.
If I take up ever so small a load, I fall down, and if I am set to any hard work I faint away before long.
Her lips were so thin as to be hardly visible, and always wore a smile, but it was like the faint smile of the dead who have died dreaming of Heaven.
Faint from lack of food, he says, "I undertook again a wearisome work, and created in six months a brand-new satire.
Sometimes he was without food for nearly two days, writing his natural and graphic letters when his ragged clothes were wet through, and his body faint from fasting.
On the occasion above alluded to there was not even this faint warning.
Scarcely had these words been spoken, when I heard a splash in the water, followed by a faint cry of distress and despair.
Gertrude, going on her knees beside the dog, and taking one of his paws, when the brute whined feebly, and made a faint effort to lick her hand.
The kisses were given in spite of the frightened looks and struggles; but at each kiss there was a faintcry of shame, dislike, and indignation mingled.
His words had a strange effect upon Gertrude, who sank back in her seat, and half closed her eyes, while a faint shudder ran through her.
He turned his face to the door, and sat listening to a faint whining, and the pattering of claw-armed feet on the floor.
Rubbing with fingers (giving a faint middle tone over the whole), and picking out high lights with bread, as shown on back and arms.
A more ancient method, it consists in drawing with a silver point on paper the surface of which has been treated with a faint wash of Chinese white.
The camera, and more particularly the instantaneous camera, has habituated people to expect in a portrait a momentary expression, and of these momentary expressions the faint smile, as we all know, is an easy first in the matter of popularity.
But Macgregor's ears caught a faint sound that caused him to grip the other's wrist.
Even while he spoke there sounded far away in the distance, so far that it was like only a faint echo, the whistle of an approaching locomotive.
Then the voice seemed somewhat stronger for an instant, and a faint smile touched Keith's lips.
But the fingers hung suspended, opened in air, her mouth open too, and she listened greedily to faint sounds of men's voices.
The air was still heavy withfaint noon-day smells, the sky tarnished with heat.
About him the faint light fell on a circle of eager, drawn faces, all set toward him.
Halting on the top and looking down, they could see a lantern moving about and catch faint sound of the men's voices.
Then the hard tension of silence was broken by a faint cry.
So had they walked a hundred miles, never separated night or day, either sleeping or waking, or faint or strong.
She caressed it, she patted it with her hand, she touched its strings, and then a faint smile crossed her rosy lips.
