Mayhap you could persuade, by much weeping and praying, falling into swoons and such like, that Her Ladyship would take you up to London!
They arrive in Britain and rejoin their friends; great is the joy; Nasciens' queen is like to have died of joy, and swoons twelve times.
He departs clad and armed in Welsh fashion, and his mother swoons as though dead.
His mother swoons away at the thought of his leaving her; but he picks out a horse and saddles it.
For a week Michael lived in a city that was become a mere background to the swoons and fevers of love.
Four terraces of polished marble shine; On the green grass count Rollant swoons thereby.
There he falls down, and lies upon the green; He swoons again, for death is very near.
Sidenote: Floris reads the inscription, and then swoons three times.
Emilia screams as loud as she can when a trifling accident happens, and when she is not a bit afraid; another lady affectedly turns pale at the sight of a mouse, or is fond of violets, and swoons at the scent of a tuberose.
Beryllus swoons when he sees a cat,[614] and I on beholding a book.
Tancred, scaling a fortress, meets and slays Argantes, receiving at the same time so grievous a wound that heswoons on the battle-field.
Sure Roland will be found facing the foe, he seeks for his corpse in the direction of Spain, and, discovering him at last on the little hill, swoons from grief.
Scarcely has she confessed this when the wind, seizing Francesca and Paolo, again sweeps them on, and Dante, hearing their pitiful moans, swoons from compassion.
On seeing that his friend has passed away, the heart-broken Roland again swoons in his saddle, but his intelligent steed stands still until his master recovers his senses.
Just then an earthquake shakes the whole region, and Dante swoons in terror.
Seeing the stream of blood which flows from his friend's wounds and catching a glimpse of his livid face, Roland so keenly realizes Oliver's end is near that he swoons in his saddle.
In swoons and syncope, the soul no longer performs her ordinary functions.
To the swarming life about him his high thoughts are incomprehensible; in God's presence his soul swoons beneath an intellectual glory to which he cannot rise, encumbered as he is by earthly clay.
While in theseswoons did you hear the ordinary conversations or noises in the house about you?
Did you have dreams, visions, or swoonsprevious to your father's death?
The poor child swoons away so completely that she utters but a feeble moan at the burning out of her left eye.
We heard her move once, after the king's voice ceased; and then came a dead silence: so we ventured to come in, lest she should have fallen into one of those swoons which have afflicted her ever since the tournament of the Champeaux.
The reply brought from within by the messenger was that the queen had been seized but a few minutes before by one of those swoons that so much afflicted her, but that she had already recovered, and was better and more cheerful since.
The servant wench that has a mother in town swoons seven times a day.
There are the souls of those once mortal years That wrought with fire of joy and light of tears In words divine as deeds that grew thereof Such music as he swoons with love who hears.
He implores Imelda for a last kiss, but wildly answering that they are brother and sister, she swoons away, while Tancredi dies in this climax of self-loathing and despair.
Imelda swoons when she hears the letter of Eriberto declaring the fatal tie of blood that binds her to her husband, and forever separates her from him.
She, essaying to lift her heavy eyes, swoons back; the deep-driven wound gurgles in her breast.
She swoons away with loss of blood; chilling in death her eyes swoon away; the once lustrous colour leaves her face.
And when the morning's beams Lie crushed on crag and bay, A wail of flutes and soft-strung lutes O'er the lone land swoons away.
The dim verbena drugs the dusk With heavy lemon odors rare; Wan heliotropes Arabian musk Exhale into the dreamy air; A sad wind with long wooing husk Swoonsin the roses there.
Only few, in face of such a choice, would have possessed the courage for conflict; they would have succumbed to swoons or tears, only listening to the voice of the heart, and turning away from the fateful decision.
Is so short and so prayerful that Simplicissimus thereuponswoons away Chap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swoons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
