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Faint in sentence

309 examples of Faint in a sentence

Charles, fearing that she would faint, ran to the refreshment-room to get a glass of barley-water.
she said in a faint voice.
Julien blushed deeply, and said with a sigh and in a faint voice:'Fear nothing, Ma'am, I shall obey you in every respect.'
Madame de Renal, who was preparing to rise, resumed her seat, saying in a faint tone:'I do, as a matter of fact, feel a little unwell, but the fresh air is doing me good.'
'I have a second favour to ask of you, Ma'am; I beg you not to look at the portrait, it is my secret.''It is a secret!' repeated Madame de Renal, in faint accents.
No sooner was she rid of the fear of being surprised by her husband, than the horror inspired in her by this box made her feel that in another minute she must unquestionably faint.
'You forget my birth,' said M. de Renal, with a faint smile.
'If it is she, what will she say to me?'What was his state when he realised from a faint cry that it was Madame de Renal.
It so happened that he really was faint with hunger.
And she fell to the ground in a dead faint.
Meanwhile, in a faint voice and in words which she had barely the strength to utter, she was repeating to him at that moment her assurance of all her regret for the action which an excessive pride might have counselled her to take.
It must be a sign of decadence ...'Mathilde kept on saying to him in a faint voice: 'He is there, in the next room.'
She uttered a faint cry.
And, when summoned to a jury, they proudly condemn the man who has stolen a silver fork because he felt faint with hunger!
I agreed with George, and suggested that we should seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.
You can hear his faint cries coming from underneath your bed.
It makes the boat so heavy to pull, you nearly faint at the oars.
She kept her word, leaving the place in charge of the charwoman, who, when asked if she could stand the smell, replied, "What smell?" and who, when taken close to the cheeses and told to sniff hard, said she could detect a faint odour of melons.
They said it made them feel quite faint.
And out from the fields around, glitter the faint lights of more distant camps, as here some great lord's followers lie mustered, and there false John's French mercenaries hover like crouching wolves without the town.
She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door shut with her foot.
The traveler had also seated himself, and he sat unconsciously gazing on the fire, while Mr. Wharton spoke; turning his eyes slowly on his host with a look of close observation, he replied, while a faint tinge gathered on his features,-"Mr.
He scarcely had time to bid the black, with a faint voice, to show this second comer in, before the door was thrown hastily open, and the stranger himself entered the apartment.
The youthful sufferer turned his eyes on the man of science, and with a faint smile endeavored to stretch forth his hand.
The idea of silver in any way was not to be resisted; and, leaving their companion, who began to show faint signs of life, they rushed tumultuously towards the dwelling.
"You forget," returned the prisoner, with a faint smile, "how much I have to do, and how little time is left to do it in."
A faint heart, Captain Wharton, would do but little here; but come, here is a black shroud for your good-looking countenance," taking, at the same time, a parchment mask, and fitting it to the face of Henry.
At length she discovered a faint and twinkling blaze in the direction in which she thought the building stood, that, by its reviving and receding luster, might be taken for the glimmering of a fire.
Frances felt her spirits invigorated by these faint vestiges of the labor of man, and she walked up the gentle acclivity with renewed hopes of success.
Faint with her exertions, which had been unusually severe for so slight a frame, she sank on a rock, to recover her strength and fortitude for the approaching interview.
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