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Peggy Noonan, straightened and steeled since her early swoonings, suited up in Old Glory before gamely suggesting that Michelle Obama's blackness actually made her life easier.

Michael Ames: The Right Unites Against Obama 2008

If, in a winter fever, the tongue be rough, and if there be swoonings, it is likely to be the remission of the fever.

On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

Miss Byron, proceeded he, after a pause, you are the most consummate hypocrite that I ever knew in my life: and yet I thought that the best of you all could fall into fits and swoonings whenever you pleased.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

However, I was indeed dreadfully dejected, and disconsolate to the last degree; and as I had no friend in the world to communicate my distressed thoughts to, it lay so heavy upon me, that it threw me into fits and swoonings several times a day.

Moll Flanders 2003

During the operation, he was taken with almost mortal swoonings, but when it was out he came to himself again.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

The time for my departure arrived; I spoke one night to Luscinda, I told her all that had occurred, as I did also to her father, entreating him to allow some delay, and to defer the disposal of her hand until I should see what the Duke Ricardo sought of me: he gave me the promise, and she confirmed it with vows and swoonings unnumbered.

Don Quixote 2002

There were tears and sighs, swoonings and sobs, at the parting between Don Gregorio and Ana

Don Quixote 2002

If your desires are well regulated, they will not cause you any torments; and if they are not so, you will be punished by swoonings similar to those of Celadon, and the shepherdess Galatea, whom the inconstant Hercules abandoned in the mountains of Auvergne, and who gave her name to the tender country of the Gauls; or you will be stoned by the shepherdesses of Lignon, as was the ferocious

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

However, I was indeed dreadfully dejected, and disconsolate to the last degree; and as I had no friend in the world to communicate my distressed thoughts to, it lay so heavy upon me, that it threw me into fits and swoonings several times a day.

The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923

The list of books which he consulted in Mr. Drummond's library at Albury must be read in full for the mere physical labour of the business to be appreciated; but after such abstruse searchings, to have crammed into ninety thousand words of solid print such a concatenation of murders, arsons, slayings, swoonings, drownings and burnings must always remain a considerable achievement.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912