faintness

How To Use faintness In A Sentence

• I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
• faintness of heart and infirmity of purpose
• Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side — whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness. Barnaby Rudge
• The blood pressure drops, causing faintness, and the body may start to store urine.
• As for a temporary faintness, that is by no means outside our experience. Lady Good-for-Nothing
• Assyria (Re 17: 15). fainted -- literally, were "faintness" (itself); more forcible than the verb. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Farther, the air being variously impregnated, sometimes more and sometimes less, with vapours and exhalations fitted to retund and intercept the rays of light, it follows that the appearance of the horizontal moon hath not always an equal faintness, and by consequence that luminary, though in the very same situation, is at one time judged greater than at another. A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
• It would not probably be unfair to suspect such faintness of apprehension, and such unfixedness and indifference of thought, in the majority of any large number of persons, though drawn together ostensibly to attend to matters of gravest concern. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
• This can cause symptoms of faintness, sweating and a pounding heart, and if not treated by eating or drinking something sugary, can lead to collapse and coma.
• 'I told you to wait outside, sir,' he said with exasperation, stating clearly that my faintness was my own fault. In The Frame