A silence that was like a swound fell on the instant, and the light within went out at a puff.
What was in my mind most when I was not altogether in the swoundof wearied flesh was the spae-wife's story of the girl in Inneraora, and a jealousy so strong that I wondered where, in all my exhausted frame, the passion for it came from.
Good senceless Sir, could you imagine I should swound for you, and know your self to be an arrant ass?
The third pool, girt with thorny bushes And flaunting weeds and reeds and rushes That winds sang through in mournful gushes, Was whitely smeared in many a round By a slow slime; the starlight swound Over the ghastly light it found.
Her gallant spirit plucked her back from the edge of swound to which his cruel act had brought her: she looked without a tremor in his face, and the third blow fell when she told him she had been to Mellish.
Hereupon my poor child was torn from me, and I fell in a swound upon the steps.
She was near falling in a swound when she saw this, and wrung her hands and cried out with her Saviour, "My God, my God!
But my child could answer him never a word, and fell into a swound again for joy; howbeit, she soon came to herself again, seeing my dear gossip still had a little wine by him.
At this dreadful news we both (I mean my child and I) fell down in a swound together, seeing that we had rested our last hopes on the young lord; and I know not what further happened.
When my child heard this, she gave a cry of joy, and fell back in a swound with her head against the wall.
She was near falling in a swound when she saw this, and wrung her hands and cried out with her Saviour, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me!
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