"Fainting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... screamed, and pointing in horror toward the dreadful creature now dragging itself across the threshold, she sank fainting ...
— Baby Mine • Margaret Mayo
... and weary, Fainting, yet with hope sustained, Toiled through pathways long and dreary Till the mountain ...
— Legends and Lyrics: First Series • Adelaide Anne Procter
... have thought a child would have known better," he remarked, scornfully; and his tone hurt my sensitiveness the more because his voice had been so anxious and his words so kind when I was fainting. He had called me "child" and "little girl." I remembered well, and the words had been saying themselves over in my mind ever since. I rather thought that they betrayed a secret—that perhaps he had been getting ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... of this pathetic address, loud cheers, mingled with tears and sighs, arose from the audience, one-half of whom sunk into the arms of the other half, and were borne out of the house in a fainting state; and thus terminated this imposing ceremony, which will be long remembered with delight by ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 12, 1841 • Various
... word, While my heart beats still, While my breath is stirred By my fainting will. O friend forsake me not, Forget not as I forgot: But keep thy heart for me, Keep thy faith true and bright; Through the lone cold winter night Perhaps I may come ...
— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti
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