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Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

The Life and Death of Julius Caesar 2004

Sir Richard answered that hee might doe with his body what he list, for hee esteemed it not, and as he was carried out of the shippe hee swounded, and reuiuing againe desired the company to pray for him.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And so he swounded away; and that made me vicious, too, and I killed two of the red niggurs, before you could say Jack

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

Who was most marble there changed colour; some swounded, all sorrowed: if all the world could have seen’t, the woe had been universal.

Act V. Scene II. The Winter’s Tale 1914

'Iron-armed Ike,' who took four villyuns, two in each hand, and swung them around his head till they got so dizzy that they swounded away, and then he threw one of 'em through a winder, and used the other three like baseball bats to knock down a gang of desperate ruffians that was comin 'to the rescue.

The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

Then, when I had a light again, I see Esquire Martin on the settle, all white and sweaty as if he had swounded away, and his arms hanging down; and I was going to help him; but just then it caught my eye that there was something like a bit of a dress shut into the cupboard door, and it came to my mind I had heard that door shut.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories 1899

There was northing but cadders in the douw-pollar, and no douws: and so, arter she had barnt the balk, and the door-stall, and the plancher, she run into the par-yard, thru the pytle, and then swounded behinn'd a sight o 'gotches o' beergood.

English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873

'The rabblement hooted and clapped their chopped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it; and for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.'

More Pages from a Journal Mark Rutherford 1872

But as they moaned and swounded there too numerous to relate,

A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

Their rest, however, was not of long duration, for in a few minutes the captain rushed out, and exclaiming "She's swounded, lad," grasped

The Lighthouse 1859