But even in his swooning condition he clutched the letter with so powerful a grasp that she could not wrest it from him.
Tiara, who had become somewhat dazed by Mrs. Johnson's treatment, had not stopped to help care for the swooning woman, but had walked away as one in a trance.
To life some swooning spirits who, last year, Lost breath and heart in these church-stifled places.
Frantically she tried to remove the heavy bolt when she was paralyzed by a demoniacal laugh that issued behind her and swooning she fell at the feet of the man whose name she bore.
Tristan felt his senses swooningat the sight of her beauty.
On the first of December his daughter felt a great pain in her stomach, fell into swooning fits, and on her recovery declared that she had seen the apparition of Rose Cullender, who threatened to torment her.
This is a thirst that thou canst best be slaking, Swooning among thy lamp-lit bottles, breaking The odorous seals of drunken dizziness.
Surely the wind is swooning on the ground, And listening to some holy, mystic birth Preparing in the entrails of the earth.
A scent of soft and swooning blossoms strayed, Like a slow sea-wave, through the deepening shade.
My lips, where my soul is crooning, Open in rapt desire, Like a burning blossomswooning Over a river on fire.
The Princess was very strong, and held her, steadying herself against the wall, thinking anything better than to let her slip to the floor and lieswooning on the stone pavement.
Then the sick wife's strength broke down entirely, and she sank swooning to the ground.
Knowing that her farewell kiss would be of no benefit to the poor swooning girl, she let it alone.
Araktseieff was never so near to swooning as when he had come to the end of the letter.
When men in racking pain may purchase dreams Of what delights them most, swooning at once Into a sea of bliss or rapt along As in a flying sphere of turbulent light?
The highest degree of terror at the pantomimic apoplexy, said the swooning couple, is the notary's seal of the highest love.
Oefel was wedged in between Beata and the Swooning Sister; Gustavus sat opposite to them between two little witty ladies: but he forgot the neighborhood of his arms in that of his eyes.
She read it, andswooning away, dropped from her chair.
It is very eerie here alone in the little dark house, whose darkness seems all the blacker for the faint, unsure glimmer of coming day that here and there patches the night's garment; alone with her half-swooning sister.
Opposite him his pale sister is swooning away in the west.
A patter of quick feet upon the stair and George's Mary came running, seeming as bonny and buxom as ever, despite her scant deshabille, as she bent above the swooning girl.
My revulsion of feeling was so great that a faintness seized me and I leaned half-swooning against a tree.
Out of the sky, blue, ardent, deep, the sun poured down warmth and Nature slept under his rays like a fair girl naked and swooning under her lover's caresses.
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The Lady Swooning in the Arms of the Gentleman of Valencia who had become a Monk.
Still on his name she call'd with swooning sighs, And hands convulsive prest, and upturn'd eyes.
I held with both hands to one side of the frame of the window, and Imogene, half-swooning with terror, lay against me, nothing but my body saving her from being dashed against the side of the cabin.
He had not finished the sentence ere anxiety burst its bounds, and the anxious woman shrieked, and fell swooning in his arms.
So he finished writing his will, and then fell into a swooning fit, and lay full length in his bed.
Upon her silken avalanche of down, Dying she breathes a long and swooning sigh; And watches the white visions past her flown, Which rise like blossoms to the azure sky.
Hereupon all the victim's blood seemed to be suffused in her, and to fill her veins with a flood as soft as warm milk; a fragrant odour set her nostrils quivering, while before her swooning eyes floated the shadows of angels.
With heads thrown back and eyes swooning with joy and terror, they could only call upon their mother, or scream a shrill "You are killing me," or keep a sullen silence.
While the priests were chanting the offices for the dead around her bier, she lay as if swooning with delight in the arms of an invisible lover.
You were a nicelooking Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the thing across the bed as Mrs Dandrade about to be violated by lieutenant Smythe-Smythe, Mr Philip Augustus Blockwell M.
When he became aware that his arm was broken, this man, so harsh to others, fell swooning on the threshold, where he remained motionless and cold, as if dead.
But her Mother Testifi'd, that her Daughter having formerly been Afflicted with Swooning Fits, and Recovered of them; was now taken with a great Pain in her Stomach; and New Swooning Fits.
I had lost all hope until that disguised bandit suddenly leaped from the wagon, and Ruth was swooning again, but she heard your voice before I did.
The man seemed swooning away, but the sergeant dashed water in his face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swooning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
