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I'm for indoors and resting—and, beside, I'm fainest of my supper o' baking days.

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon

I am sure that I would fainest do that in writing or abstaining which should be most acceptable to him.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

Have mercy, Jesu, said Sir Launcelot, I may call myself the most unhappiest man that liveth, for ever when I would fainest have worship there befalleth me ever some unhappy thing.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“But I say, maids!—whom were ye all fainest to wed?—What manner of man, I mean.”

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah

Answer me roundly,—not after the manner of these holy sisters,—whom wert thou fainest to wed?”

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah