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    swooning


    1. swooning with the sway of dry edged palms,


    2. Leaves fall around their swooning


    3. The officer is swooning under a heavy cloud, in a melange of earth and metal, of maggot meal and black decay


    4. Zoe and Bianca drew their bows, but Bianca was having trouble because Grover kept swooning and leaning against her


    5. Hadrathus bent to unbind the swooning girl on the altar, when from among the trees appeared a strange apparition—Xaltotun's chariot drawn by the weird horses


    6. anything that would detract from how he felt or how he was swooning


    7. in those days, continued about in a daily, dreamlike swooning fog


    8. of total contentment in swooning consuming euphoria


    9. All the girls were swooning over him and feeling jealous of Tarana


    10. He was green, frothing, swooning

    11. My heart sank a little as my gaze shifted to the dozens of girls swooning over him just in front of the stage, each one vying for just a moment of his attention


    12. As much as she hated needing the assistance, nearly swooning like some delicate waif, she was grateful for the prince’s quick thinking


    13. Constantly swooning, light in the head


    14. Abdel Halim Hafez, the heartthrob singer and film star was in attendance and though everybody was swooning over him, Tousson and I gave him the cold shoulder


    15. I dumped my gear and went to join Lady Elin, here with a group of Efa’s friends, all staring at us, delighted, Essylt near swooning that Arthur was home, and he had kissed her, so she could not take her eyes off him


    16. Then he injected something into Cleo and she felt drowsy, “You may be powerful and bullish, but that doesn’t mean you’ll win”, she said, “and not after I’ve laid my eyes on you!” she said swooning out


    17. nine, over the moon, in raptures, swooning swooning swooning and spending every second


    18. In terror he sat up in bed, almost swooning with agony


    19. Suddenly he started, saved again perhaps from swooning by an uncanny and hideous sight


    20. "Painters? No, I didn't see them," Raskolnikov answered slowly, as though ransacking his memory, while at the same instant he was racking every nerve, almost swooning with anxiety to conjecture as quickly as possible where the trap lay and not to overlook anything

    21. She gripped the rope, almost swooning


    22. first sight of his place of execution, I was on the point of swooning


    23. Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the thing


    24. “Yeah,” I said, swooning at the thought of it


    25. She did not care what Scarlett had borne with Pitty’s swooning at the news and had steeled herself to see Ashley look suddenly old and avoid her eyes as he wished her happiness


    26. The rear stalls were crammed with girls swooning for N’Sync, while the front stalls were studded with suave presenters, wheeler-dealers, and glittering nominees


    27. When the ‘Jazz History of the World’ was over girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby’s head for one link


    28. It seems to be not the clouds but the buildings that are moving, swooning, waiting to fall


    29. At these words, a deathly pallor spread over Christine's face, dark rings formed round her eyes, she staggered and seemed on the point of swooning


    30. I do not know if the viscount heard the girl's swooning voice, for he was too much occupied by the astounding spectacle that now appeared before his distracted gaze

    31. A wild shriek pierced the house, and the Provencale fell swooning: a shriek and a swoon were demanded by the play, but the swooning too was real this time


    32. On NBC’s Tonight Show Jay Leno regaled his audience with jokes about crashing stock prices and a swooning economy


    33. Thus I began to spin out an amusing Tale of Star-cross’d Lovers, compleat with swooning Virgins, rough-hewn Rakes, lustful Sea Captains, and ruin’d Courtiers


    34. After a couple of days, he had a following of swooning young girls and retirees and music lovers who wanted his picture and his autograph


    35. If any young man ventured to pronounce an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew so angry that he was on the point of swooning


    36. He was on the verge of swooning


    37. was on the point of swooning; he saw Marius through a


    38. ‘My sister suffered this same swooning paleness


    39. I could hear the whispered words in Portuguese, the swooning dance


    40. ‘Painters? No, I didn’t see them,’ Raskolnikov answered slowly, as though ransacking his memory, while at the same instant he was racking every nerve, almost swooning with anxiety to conjecture as quickly as possible where the trap lay and not to overlook anything

    41. Only at that moment I heard behind me a shout from fifty voices, and that shout was echoed in my swooning heart with such a feeling of pride and pleasure that I shall never forget that mad moment of my boyhood


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    Synonyms for "swooning"

    faint light light-headed lightheaded swooning

    "swooning" definitions

    weak and likely to lose consciousness