Mrs Oldcastle gave a scream, and sunk fainting on a chair.
Fainting, breathless, with fluttering eyelids, he shivered at the touch of the monk's floating robe.
With the assistance of Nap's strong arm, the man tottered in, then sank, half fainting, into a chair.
They mark'd him as he onward prest, With fainting heart and weary limb; Kind voices bade him turn and rest, And gentle faces welcomed him.
Deceived, betrayed, fainting for supper, done out of the delicious tripe and onions, he leaned against the shutters, and gave vent to a prolonged and piteous howl.
I fell down fainting amongst the beasts when the monster elephant wound his trunk about me and, setting me on his back, went off with me, the others accompanying us.
One day he carried his little piece of bread into the garden to eat it there, but wandering with it in his mouth, still further on, he saw a young girl pale and thin, and almost fainting for want of food.