Whenever I hear of some lady fainting about upon the furniture at my presence, and sending for a glass of water, I say to myself, There's Maria at it again, by God!
And while he halted for a moment to parley with the man, the crowd came upon them, and he was parted from his friend, who had held up his fainting steps; and so he sprung trembling into the shop, scarcely thinking himself safe even there.
When Gottlieb passed along this road, he had gone on so boldly, that I had not noticed how fearful it was in parts to any giddy head or fainting heart.
The general pointed to the wet and fainting girl huddling weakly upon the divan.
I was met by a perfume whose like I had never before smelt; and so sharp and subtle was the odor that it made my senses drunken as with strong wine, and I fell to the ground in a fainting fit which lasted a full hour.
Keziah Bay, who indignantly caught the fainting girl from him, and apparently without much effort bore her from the room.
Some moderns imagine that it served at the burial of out Lord; others say, that a devout woman wiped his face with it, when he was fainting under the load of his cross, going to mount Calvary.
But I assure you, that when I am fainting with hunger, God hath fortified me by his sweet consolations, so that I have looked upon myself as well recompensed for his service.
It was these loans and gifts, transformed into munitions of war and military supplies, which again and again infused reviving life into the fainting bosom of his country, and enabled her soldiers to turn an undaunted face to her foes.
Inert and fainting on her arrival, she was now seated, turning her dark glances in all directions, waiting and watching for the happy moment when she would be removed.
It was a bad quarter of an hour for her, and when, at the end of it, Tots came, she looked on the verge of fainting again.
She was near to fainting again, when abruptly Pierre stood up.
If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart fromfainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills!
Ysolde, overcome with shame at being thus detected with her lover, sinks fainting to the ground, while Tristan, wishing to shield her as much as possible from the scornful glances of these men, stands in front of her with his mantle outspread.
Elsa embraces her brother with joy, the king and nobles gladly welcome him, and Ortrud sinks fainting to the ground.
The sudden revulsion from great joy to overwhelming despair proves too much for Ysolde's delicate frame, and she sinks fainting to the deck, just as King Mark appears and the curtain falls upon the first act.
Ysolde after her fainting fit has been conveyed to the king's palace, where she is to dwell alone until her marriage takes place, and where she forgets everything except the passion which she feels for Tristan, who now shares all her feelings.
Adrian is bending anxiously over her fainting form; but as soon as she recovers her senses she hastens to inform her brother that he saved her from Orsini's shameful attempt, and bespeaks his fervent thanks for her young protector.
They are fleeing from Hunding, and Sieglinde, who has discovered when too late that Siegmund is her brother, is so torn by remorse, love, and fear that she soon sinks faintingto the ground.
In July, while at work on logarithm tables, he was overtaken by a sudden fainting fit, evidently of an epileptic nature.
And he rushed from the house, leaving Sarah in a fainting condition.
Suddenly, when he was about to suffocate, the door was broken open, and he found himself fainting in the arms of the Slasher.
Say, you don't have those faintingattacks any more?
Moreover, Nap had transferred her hand to Bertie's, and the boy's warm grasp renewed her fainting courage.
Hence also it happens that in fainting fits and in states of alarm when the heart beats more languidly and less forcibly, haemorrhages are diminished and arrested.
Someone said that a lady who was fainting had made her way out five minutes before.
Since her fainting spell, she dragged her leg, and as her strength was failing rapidly, old Mother Simon, who had lost her money in the grocery business, came very morning to chop the wood and pump the water.
Show the way, little Cupid, and lead me to your mother, the fainting Venus.
The children hurried away, and the stranger was alone with the fainting woman.
The children joyfully hurried to the door; they were not now thinking of their poor, fainting mother, but of the bread they would buy to satisfy their hunger.
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.
The sky was as brass' to thefainting emigrants, and 'the earth was as iron' to them.
Fainting is one of my weaknesses," she continued, turning to Helen.
Certain it is they had no suspicion of the truth, and on their way home they spoke with much concern of these fainting attacks, wondering if nothing could be done to ward them off.
He must have had a sort of fainting fit, for he came to himself feeling very queer; and with some difficulty rose and rang the bell.
Terror seemed to lend her wings, for she found herself on the vessel's deck before she had time to draw a breath, where half fainting she lay for some moments, thanking Heaven for her safety.
Guy was just in time to catch Dexie's fainting form and bear her from the room, when the children round the bedside understood that they were fatherless.
