faintness

Example Sentences

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Faintness overpowered her, and she lay for several minutes powerless, in Mrs. Hamilton's arms.

From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace

Faintness threatened her; she clung to the handle of a weighing machine for support.

From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Newte, Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can)

Faintness is such a queer thing that to think of it is to have it. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas

Pestilential Impostumes or Tumours are those that are accompany'd with a Fever, Swooning, Head-ach, and Faintness: They usually arise in the time of a Plague or Pestilence, and are contagious.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Faintness overcame me and I stopped to camp, though only a short distance had been covered.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir