syncope

Here Joe's voice failed, and, falling into a syncope, Glenn and Sneak lifted him up and carried him into the house.

What has been said about syncope applies also to the relative spheres of elision and hiatus.

Had he been in bed, I think there is reason to believe this fatal syncope, if such it was, would not have happened.

If the girl had fainted it was a pity, but what influence had he over her syncope?

The young man sunk back in a species of syncope, produced by the agony of his mind as he made the fatal communication.