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Updated: September 22, 2025
To have been born for this one burst, and died, would have been better than never to have been born at all, in the estimation of the enthusiastic Peter Pax! A few minutes after George Aspel had borne the fainting Miss Lillycrop from the house the engine arrived. Some of the men swarmed into the house, and dived to the basement, as if fire and smoke were their natural food.
There's been burglars over at Peasmarsh Place Beale's just told me and they've took every single one of Lady Chittenden's diamonds and jewels and things, and she's a-goin' out of one fainting fit into another, with hardly time to say "Oh, my diamonds!" in between. And Lord Chittenden's away in London. 'Lady Chittenden, said Anthea; 'we've seen her.
'Lost! she said, in a stupor, feeling her head swimming, 'but there's worse. 'Worse? echoed Selina and Archie, who were both standing looking terrified at one another. 'Yes, said Mrs Villiers, in a hollow whisper, leaning forward and grasping Archie's coat, 'I've killed my husband, and without another word, she fell fainting to the ground.
"You all plotted, and you all schemed and to what end what was the result?" he held before them the fainting figure of the girl "That one poor child could prove she was honest!" With his arms still about her, and her hands clinging to him, he moved with her quickly to the door. When they had reached the silence of the hall, he took her hands in his, and looked into her eyes.
After a time the smiles were rather forced, as if waiting was telling on them; but there was no deserter only one six-foot youth, walking with a swagger to contribute his little half inch or so of cuticle, added a sensation to the general excitement by fainting halfway up the ward; and he remained in blissful unconsciousness until it was all over.
Abou Neeut, resigned to his fate, and relying on Providence, proceeded to a mosque to pay his devotions, hoping to meet some charitable person who would relieve his necessities; but he was mistaken. For a night and day he remained in the mosque, but no one offered him charity. Pressed by hunger, he in the dusk of evening stole out, and wandered with fainting steps through the streets.
She sang once more: Thou dreamest: on a rock thou art, High o'er the broken wave; Thou fallest with a fearful start But not into thy grave; For, waking in the morning's light, Thou smilest at the vanished night So wilt thou sink, all pale and dumb, Into the fainting gloom; But ere the coming terrors come, Thou wak'st where is the tomb?
For several days he refused almost every kind of sustenance, being at intervals subject to fainting fits. After some time, however, the consolations and advice of his good aunt appeared to have some weight with him, and the tempest in his little heart began to abate.
We must put him and his men across softly and bolster up their valor, else shall we fail to entice them aboard the fishing-vessel, and so fail to ship them off to France; and thus England is so much the worse off by having still here the vile knaves." "Yea, Bernulf, thou art right," was the answer. "And surely we have led them through toils enough, for they be weary to fainting.
But perhaps I cannot do better than to compare our bodily machine to a violin to hit upon something less dismal than slaves a violin with blood for its bow. As long as the bow runs over the strings the violin makes music and lives; when the bow stops, it is silent and dies. You have never yet had a fainting fit, my dear child; it rarely happens at your age.
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