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    swoon


    1. "Only the same ones we knew by helmet and the ones you swoon over


    2. As he repeats the name over and over in his head he realises that it could be and he starts to swoon


    3. envy of all parents, the lad who makes the girls swoon all over


    4. One who would swoon at the sight of blood, while a handsome stranger would catch her and assure her everything would be fine


    5. "When death comes," explains Roy Gillett, "the sum total of negativity in our mind automatically attracts us through the swoon of darkness to a new life that suits that negativity exactly


    6. Earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city


    7. Q: Not when I sleep, of course, nor when I am in a swoon, or


    8. Master the Art of Seduction Want the skills to make your woman swoon at will? To leave her


    9. Christine’s explanations somehow made me swoon and I had to sit on the floor


    10. As the full horror of her situation swept over her, she fell forward in a swoon

    11. It smelled so heavy that it made my senses swoon and I had to force myself to retreat to the White House although it was more mansion than any mere house


    12. those words, they’ll swoon


    13. Unknown to her was that her swoon had lasted several hours; due to the extreme stress of the past 24 hours coupled with the lack of food and rest


    14. She never understood before this moment why all the other girls talked with such swoon about men


    15. She'll swoon straight into your arms when she sees all those zeros


    16. One morning Úrsula woke up feeling that she was reaching her end in a placid swoon and she had already asked them to take her to Father Antonio Isabel, even if it had to be on a stretcher, when Santa Sofía de la Piedad discovered that her back was paved with leeches


    17. person they seemed to swoon and then hold their head


    18. head to swoon and heart to relax


    19. Once the lid was open, they would take a deep breath and swoon at the heavenly odors


    20. Nobody knew where to start from…? All had lost senses as if fallen into swoon

    21. “I’m sure the ladies all swoon over that beard


    22. ‘But think of how dramatic it would look were I to swoon and drop my papers


    23. “If I was a woman, I’d swoon over this kind of romantic stuff


    24. His hands framed themselves around my slender neck and I was sure I would swoon


    25. except during the time spent in the swoon, or faint, of the


    26. “Ahh!” she said, pretending to swoon


    27. “Oh! I’d be honored!” she replied, pretending to swoon


    28. The whole Bible story is either true or Swoon Theory


    29. She had long blonde hair in flowing waves, and chocolate brown eyes that made any boy's heart melt: the same way Derrick's made girls swoon


    30. That brought me out of my swoon

    31. Women still swoon over the mere mention of Giacomo


    32. ‘Now, Captain Trousers, let me know what it is the ladies of Shropshire swoon


    33. eyes sparkled like those of a fairy tale princess and I could feel my head swoon


    34. Raskolnikov noticed at once that she was not one of those women who swoon easily


    35. Miscreant Foulon taken, my daughter! Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and screaming, Foulon alive! Foulon who told the starving people they might eat grass! Foulon who told my old father that he might eat grass, when I had no bread to give him! Foulon who told my baby it might suck grass, when these breasts where dry with want! O mother of God, this Foulon! O Heaven our suffering! Hear me, my dead baby and my withered father: I swear on my knees, on these stones, to avenge you on Foulon! Husbands, and brothers, and young men, Give us the blood of Foulon, Give us the head of Foulon, Give us the heart of Foulon, Give us the body and soul of Foulon, Rend Foulon to pieces, and dig him into the ground, that grass may grow from him! With these cries, numbers of the women, lashed into blind frenzy, whirled about, striking and tearing at their own friends until they dropped into a passionate swoon, and were only saved by the men belonging to them from being trampled under foot


    36. "Apparently the English advocate is in a swoon?"


    37. By this time Don Quixote had recovered from his swoon; and in the same tone of voice in which he had called to his squire the day before when he lay stretched "in the vale of the stakes," he began calling to him now,


    38. He will sigh, she will swoon, the damsel will fetch water, much distressed because morning approaches, and for the honour of her lady he would not that they were discovered; at last the princess will come to herself and will present her white hands through the grating to the knight, who will kiss them a thousand and a thousand times, bathing them with his tears


    39. On seeing this, Don Fernando, persuaded that Luscinda had befooled, slighted, and trifled with him, assailed her before she had recovered from her swoon, and tried to stab her with the dagger that had been found, and would have succeeded had not her parents and those who were present prevented him


    40. "Senor Squire," said Sancho, "a man in a swoon has been known to be buried before now, in the belief that he was dead; and it struck me that Queen Maguncia ought to have swooned rather than died; because with life a great many things come right, and the princess's folly was not so great that she need feel it so keenly

    41. The queen, then, being dead, and not in a swoon, we buried her; and hardly had we covered her with earth, hardly had we said our last farewells, when, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymis? over the queen's grave there appeared, mounted upon a wooden horse, the giant Malambruno, Maguncia's first cousin, who besides being cruel is an enchanter; and he, to revenge the death of his cousin, punish the audacity of Don Clavijo, and in wrath at the contumacy of Antonomasia, left them both enchanted by his art on the grave itself; she being changed into an ape of brass, and he into a horrible crocodile of some unknown metal; while between the two there stands a pillar, also of metal, with certain characters in the Syriac language inscribed upon it, which, being translated into Kandian, and now into Castilian, contain the following sentence: 'These two rash lovers shall not recover their former shape until the valiant Manchegan comes to do battle with me in single combat; for the Fates reserve this unexampled adventure for his mighty valour alone


    42. At this instant the Trifaldi recovered from her swoon and said, "The chink of that promise, valiant knight, reached my ears in the midst of my swoon, and has been the means of reviving me and bringing back my senses; and so once more I implore you, illustrious errant, indomitable sir, to let your gracious promises be turned into deeds


    43. By this time the bearded band of duennas, the Trifaldi and all, had vanished from the garden, and those that remained lay stretched on the ground as if in a swoon


    44. He had scarcely withdrawn when Altisidora, recovering from her swoon, said to her companion, "The lute must be left, for no doubt Don Quixote intends to give us some music; and being his it will not be bad


    45. She turned towards Lucy in silent amazement, unable to divine the reason or object of such a declaration; and though her complexion varied, she stood firm in incredulity, and felt in no danger of an hysterical fit, or a swoon


    46. Afraid lest she should swoon, she returned to her rocking-chair, trembling in every fibre


    47. before I fell into the swoon, in which, as he rose, seeing me extended on


    48. that his first idea of this swoon being a feint, was not the very truth of the


    49. the start of him, and went away into the melting swoon, and squeezing


    50. eye each movement of Teresa and her cavalier; when their hands touched, he felt as though he should swoon; every pulse beat with violence, and it seemed as though a bell were ringing in his ears

































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    Synonyms for "swoon"

    deliquium faint swoon syncope conk pass out

    "swoon" definitions

    a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain


    pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain