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Example sentences for "faintness"

Lexicographically close words:
fainteth; fainthearted; fainting; faintings; faintly; faints; fair; faire; fairely; fairer
  1. Again the faintness seized me, and I lay stretched out on the hard ground.

  2. At length I could bear the pain no longer, and, overcome with fatigue, a faintness seized me, and I sank down on the ground.

  3. And as they withdrew through the house, Kalliope sank back in her chair in one of those alarming attacks of deadly faintness that had been averted for many days past.

  4. She no longer felt the grip of faintness on her heart.

  5. At the same time he felt that the pains in his side and his heart had grown keener, and a feeling of faintness possessed him.

  6. She remembered, also, the faintness and weariness which cover the faces of people with pallor and an expression of unbearable disgust.

  7. Those legs that now can nimbly run, Shall then with faintness fail To take one step, death's dart to shun, When he doth thee assail.

  8. No sorrow can them now annoy, Nor weakness, grief or pain; No faintness can abate their joy, They now in life do reign.

  9. I don't think I was actually faint; but something like faintness made me close my eyes.

  10. At the moment when I put it to my lips, a deadly faintness overcame me.

  11. In the moment when I put it to my lips, a deadly faintness mastered me from head to foot.

  12. She made a sort of faintness upon the sea and sky where she was: nothing more.

  13. She stood beside Wynne while her grandmother examined the arm, handing the things that were wanted; fighting with the faintness that came over her in waves.

  14. He still retained a consciousness of the face of Berenice, warm against his bosom, and with each wave of faintness he struggled to keep his senses that he might protect her.

  15. Filled with foreboding, with dread for self and the passing from the darkness of the womb to the darkness of death for the unborn child, faintness of heart was made worse by the faintness of hunger.

  16. And a darkness and faintness came over Dermot, but when he awoke, he found himself in a wide, open country, flowery and fair, and before him the walls and towers of a royal city.

  17. And as they lay in the stupor of faintness in the boat, one murmured to himself, "I see the Cape of Ben Edar and the coast of Turenn, and Tara of the Kings.

  18. Ottilia, faintly; and then she looked up again at the Death's Head, and she could not resist a sense of horror and faintness that crept over her.

  19. Claire had not realised how confidently she had expected its presence, until her heart sank with a sick, heavy faintness as she lifted the one envelope, and looked in vain for a second.

  20. In the end faintness overcame her, and if Claire had not rushed to the rescue, she would have fallen on the floor.

  21. The confusion, in which impressions are sometimes involved, proceeds only from their faintness and unsteadiness, not from any capacity in the mind to receive any impression, which in its real existence has no particular degree nor proportion.

  22. Here then is a third rebound of the original pleasure; after which it is difficult to distinguish the images and reflexions, by reason of their faintness and confusion.

  23. The smell of it came to me where I lay in the shadder, an' I tell you it made me sick with longing for a bite, but I jes' kept there sniffin' till the faintness left me.

  24. I jes' let go yell on yell, until a faintness came over me, and the sound leg which had been all on a tremble gave way, and I sot down.

  25. They enter the room of the double casement; and Pierre sits down, overpowered with bodily faintness and spiritual awe.

  26. If both of them had avowed their faintness as often as they felt it, the complaint would have been perpetual.

  27. Yielding herself for the moment in a faintness that threatened to subdue her, she was yet able, when his caresses grew wild with passion, to put back his arms and move suddenly away.

  28. These were the thoughts crowding each other so fast in her brain when the faintness and pallor crept over her and the objects about her began to seem unreal.

  29. The mental fog had lifted and the feeling of faintness was gone.

  30. But she probably did know that ammonia is good for just that sort of faintness which she must have experienced after taking the powder.

  31. Then if you feel a faintness from the medicine the ammonia will quickly restore you.

  32. Gotthold made no reply; the faintness which he had already several times scarcely been able to conquer, once more stole over him, and he was obliged to lean very heavily on Wollnow's arm.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faintness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anemia; atony; blur; cowardice; darkness; debility; dimness; dullness; eyestrain; fairness; fatigue; fear; frailty; gentleness; haziness; impotence; infirmity; languor; lassitude; lightness; listlessness; lowness; obscurity; paleness; pallor; pliability; prostration; sleepiness; softness; strain; uncertainty; vagueness; weakness; weariness