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Aha, 'twas a mortal good hour for me when we first struck hands, Mart'n." "And you're more than quits, Godby, by saving me from the fire " "Why, pal, you fell all of a swound, d'ye see, and there's my Lady Brandon and t'other 'un a-running to fetch ye, flames or no so what could I do " "My lady Joan?"
What was in my mind most when I was not altogether in the swound of wearied flesh was the spae-wife's story of the girl in Inneraora, and a jealousy so strong that I wondered where, in all my exhausted frame, the passion for it came from.
what more weirdly imagined of the "cracks and growls" of the rending iceberg than that they sounded "like noises in a swound"? And how beautifully steals in the passage that follows upon the cessation of the spirit's song
They brewed it, and they drank it, And lay in a blessed swound For days and days together In their dwellings underground." Donald M'Donald had formerly been a smuggler, but he had wearied of that too active life, and he had longed for an occupation more sedentary and less strenuous. Distilling suited his temperament to a nicety.
But what Tony says to other women is all mere wind, and no concern to me!" "Don't you be too sure!" says Unity. "He's going to have Hannah, and not you, nor me either; I could hear that." 'Now at these strange voices sounding from under the cloth Hannah was thunderstruck a'most into a swound; and it was just at this time that the horse moved on.
Robert Brissenden Leading Stoker, R.N. Edward A. McKenzie Leading Stoker, R.N. William Burton Leading Stoker, R.N. Bernard J. Stone Leading Stoker, R.N. Angus McDonald Fireman. Thomas McGillon Fireman. Charles Lammas Fireman. W. H. Neale Steward. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound.
Here's your rogues a-fighting and a-murdering of each other, which is no great matter, but here's them a-wrecking o' my house, which is great matter, here's them has broke my head wi' one o' my own pottlepots, which is greater matter, here's me dursen't set of it i' the place and my wife and maids all of a swound O Master Penfeather, here's doings, love my limbs!"
When my child heard this, she gave a cry of joy, and fell back in a swound with her head against the wall. Whereupon she said, "Whether I will not have you, my lord! Alas! I love you as dearly as my God and my Saviour! You first saved my life, and now you have snatched my heart from the stake, whereon, without you, it would have burned all the days of my life!"
You've messed my nice alpaca body if you can't help getting dirt all over yourself you shouldn't ought to touch a lady even if she's in a swound." "I'm middling sorry, missus." His voice was quite tranquil it was like oil on the fire of Joanna's wrath. "Maybe you are, and so am I. You shouldn't ought to have cotched hold of me like that.
At which the prisoner broke out and cried to his lordship not to use such words to him, and his lordship very angrily told him he deserved no tenderness at any man's hands for a cowardly butcherly murderer that had not the stomach to take the reward of his deeds: 'and I hope to God, said he, 'that she will be with you by day and by night till an end is made of you. Then the prisoner was removed, and, so far as I saw, he was in a swound, and the Court broke up.
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