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"Stop a bit," said Joe Basalt, feeling the stowaway's chest. "He's not dead yet. I can feel something moving here. Yes, it's beating." "He's only fainting, then." "Yes." "Quite enough, top. I'll go up and let them know, before he can go on again about it." Up he ran. Joe Basalt used his best exertions to bring the swooning man round. Tiller found Harkaway on deck.
As Tennyson read Locksley Hall to his guests, Henry James had to pinch himself, "not at all to keep from swooning, but much rather to set up some rush of sensibility." What a lovely touch of malice there is in his description of Tennyson on an occasion on which the ineffable Mrs. Greville quoted some of his own verse to him:
"Do you mean, Pen, that you " here the widow, with eager eyes and outstretched hands, was breaking out, but Laura stopped her: "Silence, hush, dear mother," she cried, and the widow hushed. Savagely as Pen spoke, she was only too eager to hear what more he had to say. "Go on, Arthur, go on, Arthur," was all she said, almost swooning away as she spoke.
And then as his lips met hers she felt it beyond her power to struggle further; but, as though in mute acquiescence, fell, half swooning and oblivious of the world, upon his neck. Jeanne, with her eyes fixed on the door, remained plunged in grief over her mother's sudden departure.
I wouldn't give a fig for the equilibrium of the figures or the ladders; but while it lasts the scene is all intensely solemn and graceful and sweet too sweet for so bitter a subject. Sodoma's women are strangely sweet; an imaginative sense of morbid appealing attitude as notably in the sentimental, the pathetic, but the none the less pleasant, "Swooning of St.
I have not forgotten it." But his shout fell to a whisper. The room was empty. With a heartbroken sob the man fell swooning on the floor. For long he lay stretched out upon the floor in a state of half-consciousness.
Involuntarily all present glanced through the window, and saw a man clad in a semi-military greatcoat leap from a buggy. After making an inquiry or two in the hall, he entered the dining-room just at the juncture when Chichikov, almost swooning with terror, had found himself placed in about as awkward a situation as could well befall a mortal man.
I sank upon the ground, only half conscious, yet I saw the indistinct blur of light as the trains swept by. I am not given to swooning, so that, after the first moment, I was quite alive to my exact situation. I knew that I was crouching on the ground, and that that iron-like grasp was still on my collar. Presently the hand relaxed its hold and a gruff, but not unkindly, voice said:
That she would end by swooning or attacking them with her hands those who knew her best felt sure, and maids and pages crept out of her reach as hunters stand off from a wounded boar. But at the point where her voice gave out and she whirled to do one or perhaps both of these, her eyes fell on the house-door, and her expression changed from rage to amazement and from amazement to horror.
And when I had done the business at last, when I was wellnigh swooning myself with the work and the worry of it, guess I give you leave to speak for this once guess what were the first words the lady said to me when she came to herself again." I was too much excited to be able to exercise my ingenuity. "I give it up!" I said, impatiently. "You may well give it up," remarked Mr. MacGlue.
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