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Sentences starting with faint

Faint and spiritless as they were, its streets were insupportable. [12]

Sentences ending with faint

Just as I was in the very act of mounting, I lost my senses and strength, and fell down on the ground in a dead faint. [10]
I then called up the cook, and said: "Hold me while I faint! [5]
Are you going to faint? [5]
As she climbed the steep steps of Mountain Street, worn with hard travel, she turned faint. [11]
It might be that some of Pango Dooni's men lay between them and the Bar of Balmud, but the chance was faint. [11]
The abrupt action sent the blood to his head, and feeling a blindness come over him, he put both hands up to his temples, and sank back on the couch, dizzy and faint. [11]
He must get out at once, or faint. [9]
I was lying on my back as when I came to, and, therefore, probably as Gabord had left me, and I determined to appear still in a faint. [11]
And when I look at my father, the thought of immortality turns me faint. [9]
For a moment his heart stopped beating, he turned sick and faint. [11]

Short sentences using faint

It was faint, ineffectual. [9]
We were very faint. [5]
She turned faint and sick. [12]
You are faint. [11]
You're faint. [12]

More example sentences with the word faint in them

I was faint with the heat. [5]
They both listened with such tension that the veins in their foreheads swelled; but from the tablinum, which was hardly thirty paces from them, came only very faint and intermittent sounds, indistinct in character and drowned by the tumult without. [10]
He was faint with lonely vigils; he was visibly carrying the load of the poor and the despised. [4]
His eyes dilating with hunger, he watched her preparations for his supper; and when at last--and she had been but a moment--it was placed before him, his head swam, and he turned faint with the stress of his longing. [11]
Cloud-in-the-Sky gave a wild whoop, and from the mountain there came, a moment after, a faint replica of the sound. [11]
She it was who had handed to Hilton the paper the wild duck had brought, after Ida had read it and fallen in a faint on the floor. [11]
It brightened the white kerchief, and the bodice and skirt of a faint pink, throwing the face into a pleasing shadow where the hand curved over the forehead. [11]
The second story, which projected above the ground floor into the street, was completely dark; but a faint glimmer of light streamed from the little window over the spurge laurel tree, and--this was the main thing--the bow window in the third story was still lighted. [10]
It was as when a bell is rung in a vacuum,--no words came from them,--only a faint gasping sound, an effort at speech. [6]
And miles farther west a faint green spot marked the location of Stone Bridge. [13]
When the lights were up again the room was empty, save for Theophile Charlemagne, Jake Hough, and Suzon, who lay in a faint on the floor with a nasty bruise on her forehead. [11]
But the promptings were faint, and Langmaid out of his medium. [9]
The abandoned campfires were burning themselves out in the faint morning light. [2]
And, however it was, there grew among the men a faint respect for her. [11]
The next sound was the faint creaking of Colonel Clark's door as it opened. [9]
Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
While Mavra Kuzminichna was running to her room the officer walked about the yard gazing at his worn-out boots with lowered head and a faint smile on his lips. [2]
In his place was his father--Prince Andrew--and his father had neither shape nor form, but he existed, and when little Nicholas perceived him he grew faint with love: he felt himself powerless, limp, and formless. [2]
The poor invalid was carried up the stairs in a faint by Banks and Romney. [9]
A boar's head was a favorite dish at the table of great people in Marshal d'Albret's time; yet he used to faint at the sight of one. [6]
Very unlike Barine's voice, too, were the deep, earnest tones trembling with emotion, in which she confronted him with the brief question, concealing a faint reproach, "Another demand? [10]
Phil knew the voice, and said with a faint smile: "Do you think they'd plant me with municipal honours--honours to pardners? [11]
Roscoe's depression had vanished; but there was an amiable seriousness in his manner which, to me, portended that the faint roses in Ruth Devlin's cheeks would deepen before the day was done, unless something inopportune happened. [11]
When Porphyro looked upon Madeline at her prayers in the chapel, it was too much for him: "'She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven:--Porphyro grew faint, She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from earthly taint. [6]
Porphyrius was sitting up, supported in the physician's arms; his eyes were open, and as they entered he greeted them with a faint smile. [10]
It's the room up there,' said the Marchioness, pointing to one where there was a faint light. [12]
It is not uncommon to meet with persons who faint at the sight of blood. [6]
The wild vine twined boldly up many a trunk, fruit was already forming on the bilberry bushes, though it still glimmered with a faint pink hue amid the green of May. [10]
She had lived twenty-five years at Geneva, where people, years ago, coming over the dusty and hot roads of France, used to faint away when they first caught sight of the Alps. [4]
The sound of trotting horses had ceased, and there was silence broken only by a faint, dry pattering of cottonwood leaves in the soft night wind. [13]
Soon a faint, tremulous light appeared in the north. [10]
The faint spectral trees, dimly glimpsed through the shredding fog, were very pretty things to see. [5]
They push and trample one another under foot; veils and dresses are torn; ladies faint away in the scrimmage, and only the strongest and most unscrupulous get in. [4]
I felt airy touches on my shoulders and my hair, and I shrank from them and cringed, and was not ashamed to show this fear, for I saw the others doing the like, and knew that they were feeling those faint contacts too. [5]
Soft act, faint touch, no meaning did it bear To any save myself, who felt the air Of a new feeling cross my soul's clear sight. [11]
Associated with this torture is a peculiar Sunday smell and the faint rustling of silk dresses. [9]
You were not told that Patty Swain fell in a faint when she heard of your disappearance. [9]
Drowsiness presently began to settle upon his senses; the faint and far-off boom of cannon was wafted to his ear, and he said to himself, "The new King is crowned," and straightway fell asleep. [5]
Sometimes Florence ceases to be substantial, and becomes just a faint soft dream, with domes and towers of air, and one is persuaded that he might blow it away with a puff of his breath. [5]
It were best to attempt to record the intangible things; the golden-green light, the perfumes, and the faint musical laughter which we can hear if we listen. [9]
The latter desired to ascertain whether the influential warrior who commanded the most important fortress in the country could be persuaded to join a conspiracy formed by Arsinoe against her royal husband, but he seemed to have left Philippus with very faint hopes. [10]
A faint yellow tinge was beginning to stain the eastern horizon. [6]
The coming storm threatening more and more, with now and then a little shiver of wind, a faint show of lightning, and dull grumblings of distant thunder. [5]
I believe Farrar thought she would faint, for he laid his napkin on the table. [9]
She saw only this sad, gray, passion-worn man, and she heard only the faint rustling of the leaves. [13]
I smiled to think what the tiny creek, always creeping through a faint leak in the gates and falling with a granite rattle on the stones, would now become. [11]
In times like these the faith is the man; and they to whom it is given in larger measure owe a special duty to those who for want of it are faint at heart, uncertain in speech, feeble in effort, and purposeless in aim. [6]
By and by these flakes fused themselves together in interminable lines, with shady faint hollows between the lines, the long satin-surfaced rollers following each other in simulated movement, and enchantingly counterfeiting the majestic march of a flowing sea. [5]
But Hume felt there was a faint chance of Lepage being found at this mountain. [11]
Nothing was visible there save a faint red glow on the distant northern horizon, and two mailed soldiers who were riding into the city at a rapid trot. [10]
Between these two there had never been even the faint shadow of romance or passion; but in the terrible mystery of pain and humiliation, they had drawn together to help each other, through a breach of all social law, in pity of each other. [11]
And over us there curves the infinite Blue heaven as a shield, and at the end We shall find One who loveth to befriend E'en those who faint for shame within His sight. [11]
At that instant there came distinctly through the wood a faint, trilling sound. [11]
Only now and then it was clouded by a sigh, or a faint moan from Berenike: 'Gone, gone! [10]
The crowd massed themselves against the boiler-deck railings, leaning over and staring into the gloom; and every faint and fainter cry wrung from them such words as, 'Ah, poor fellow, poor fellow! [5]
She knew, by their uncertain yelping up and down the opposite bank, that she had a little respite: she used it, however, to push on until the baying was faint in her ears; and then she dropped, exhausted, upon the ground. [4]
Sometimes another brought the water, and at sight of her I would tremble and grow faint, and I had not the strength to reach for it. [9]
One by one the troopers rode through the faint belt of light that stretched from the door, and were lost in the darkness, the thud of their horses' hoofs echoing behind them. [11]
The buildings and the trees that bordered the Achtergracht were already casting longer shadows, and the golden mists hovering over the roofs began to be mingled with a faint rosy light, when Maria heard a horseman trotting up the street. [10]
She listened with the tension of terror to the sound of the steps which came straight towards her nearer and nearer, then the wanderer perceived the faint gleam of her white dress, and called out to her. [10]
Then he called the supplicant's name loud tone, and the next instant still more loudly; and now she turned, and, in the faint light of the little lamp, showed the marvellously noble outlines of her profile. [10]
Only now in the stillness of the night, reading it by the faint light under the green shade, did he grasp its meaning for a moment. [2]
The effect of the song upon her was broken; she flushed slightly, and, as I thought, with faint annoyance. [11]
Papa continues much the same; he was very faint when he came down to breakfast. [14]
So still was the room that it might have seemed to be without life, were it not for a faint sound of breathing. [11]
He asked himself the question with a faint feeling of self-reproach, but he did not confess the true reason. [10]
You could follow the line of the procession back, and slanting upward into the sky, far away in a glittering snaky rope, till it was only a faint streak in the distance. [5]
High above, on the flat promontory between the two rivers, is the city of tents and wooden huts, the great trees in their fresh faint green towering above the low roofs. [9]
It was not--until the first faint herald of the morning that Honora could bring herself to pronounce the fateful thing that stood between her and happiness, that threatened to mar the perfection of a heaven-born love --Divorce! [9]
Venters waited until the faint slam of a door assured him she had reached the house, and then, taking up his rifle, he noiselessly slipped through the bushes, down the knoll, and on under the dark trees to the edge of the grove. [13]
Presently he heard the faint noise of a gate shutting. [11]
In the marshes the cat-tails and the faint flush of color on the alders and soft maples gave a character to the low shore, and the gentle rise of the hills from the water's edge combined to make a sweet and peaceful landscape. [4]
The smoke of the burning mountain was wrapping itself around him; he was choking with its dense fumes; he heard the flames roaring around him, he felt the hot lava beneath his feet, he uttered a faint cry, and awoke. [6]
It certainly enhanced the beauty of a face now only too frequently pallid and colourless, when rouge did not lend its aid; but Barine understood Archibius's ardent admiration for this rare woman, when Cleopatra, with a faint smile, requested her to approach. [10]
It is true that there is always a faint foreign fragrance about her speech, no matter what language she is talking, but it is only just noticeable, nothing more, and is rather a charm than a mar, I think. [5]
The stone step that led to her private door she had skillfully painted with faint brown spots, so that when visitors made their exit from this part of the house they would say, "Why, it rains! [4]
The wakeful shepherd, tending his flocks, beholds from the mountain's top the first faint morning beam ere cometh the risen day. [5]
The bandage was taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing aprons like the Rhetor's and holding swords in their hands pointed at his breast. [2]
On the little table beside it, amid several bottles and glasses, the lamp and the box of matches, stood the tiny bell, at whose faint sound one of her nurses invariably hastened in. [10]
But all the sweet odors of the night could not take from the room a faint suggestion of mortality. [5]
Away across the sunny waves one saw a faint dark stripe stretched along under the horizon-or pretended to see it, for the credit of his eyesight. [5]
He came and stooped beside her; but she had died with that one glance from him, bringing a faint smile to her lips. [11]
He heard her step at last,--alight, gliding step,--so light that her coming was often unheard, except by those who perceived the faint rustle that went with it. [6]
If Jean Jacques started with faint doubt regarding anything, and allowed himself betimes the flush of a declaration of belief, there could be but one end. [11]
My heart shall speak for thee till the latest hour; I know faint and broken are the sounds of sorrow, yet our souls, Elfonzo, shall hear the peaceful songs together. [5]
To the faint sound of the instrument, which was rather a large one, and which he had propped on the pillow by his side, he was singing, or rather murmuring a long ditty. [10]
Jane's listening ear soon caught a faint, rapid, rhythmic beat of hoofs. [13]
I hear the songs they sing, faint echoes of them, even as I write. [11]
A faint, hopeful smile was on Mona's face now. [11]
With a faint smile at his own past insolent self, he glanced at the clock. [11]
Presently, with a slight, husky pain in her voice, like the faint echo of a wail, she went on: "Now that he's going, I'm glad we've had the things he gave us, things that can't be taken away from us. [11]
The aged woman silently bowed her head, but quickly raised it again, and there was a faint tinge of regret in her voice as she began: "Too much, certainly too much. [10]
What if she should faint, or die, or have a stroke of palsy, and they should break into the room and find that name written! [6]
She suddenly stopped short; at the same time as herself, lights faint and bright were coming along from the south, from the entrance of the street that led to Rhakotis, and down to the water. [10]
At length the shooting ceased; stillness reigned; then came a faint halloo, and out of the forest beyond us a man rode, waving his hat at the fort. [9]
Pale as death, she threw up her arms to protect herself, and then, overcome with terror and fatigue, with a faint cry of anguish she lost consciousness. [10]
For almost immediately she showed faint signs of gathering strength. [13]
So completely was she mistress of herself that presently he felt a certain faint resentment rising within him,--yet he asked himself why she should not have been. [9]
If faint and shadowy forms had already come between them, he gave no evidence of having as yet discerned these. [9]
Farther on we saw a faint, zigzag footpath, that we conjectured led to Emd; but it might lead up to heaven. [4]

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