faintness

When she asperged the warm water with cologne, -- it was her secret delight and greatest effort of economy to buy this cologne, -- she always had one little moment of what she called faintness -- that faintness which had veiled her eyes, and chained her hands, and stilled her throbbing bosom, when as a bride she came from the church with him.

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

His hands and feet were bound with iron: but his head, owing to faintness from the wounds he had received at Lumloch, was so bent down on his breast as he reclined on the boat, that I could not then see his face.

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

'I told you to wait outside, sir,' he said with exasperation, stating clearly that my faintness was my own fault.

In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

As for a temporary faintness, that is by no means outside our experience.

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The sense of extension may be ranked amongst these appetites, since the deficiency of its object gives disagreeable sensation; when this happens in the arterial system, it is called faintness, and seems to bear some analogy to hunger and to cold; which like it are attended with emptiness of a part of the vascular system.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Mr Witherden, sir, a kind of faintness is upon my spirits — if you would do me the favour to ring the bell and order up a glass of something warm and spicy, I shall, notwithstanding what has passed, have a melancholy pleasure in drinking your good health.

The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

Maybe it was the words, or the sudden wash of feeling, the sadness that came over me like a kind of faintness, that made me yearn forward as I said those last words, and meant them with all my heart even as I felt the metal of that crowbar in my hand, I loved you, too,

Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

Only for an immediate and transitory need, such as faintness or shock, is the quickly passing stimulating power of alcohol useful; and even for such purposes other stimulants are more valuable.

Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

A trembling like that of faintness which is fought off by an effort of will ran over her, and he watched the pale, unsteady quiver of her eyelids.

The Wheel of Life Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Assyria (Re 17: 15). fainted -- literally, were "faintness" (itself); more forcible than the verb.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871