Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue or a shack in the clouds. Even the dullest of subjects will fail to induce sleep, for now it is the plunk-plunk of a banjo drifting over rippling waters or the splash of a perfect "watermelon" from a twenty foot spring board that imparts a faint glean of intelligence to the student's shining face. Even the most exacting of lecturers are pleased these days with the brilliant countenances before them...
...passports, tied their hands and soaked ropes to make them cut deeper. The Mongols explained they had never heard of America and were going to kill Messrs. Clark and Morden. These men discussed their insurance policies and "hoped they would shoot us and make it snappy." They tried to faint to escape the pains in their arms, but could not manage it. After much grunting and pipe-smoking the Mongols changed their minds, fed their captives tea, sent the caravan ahead under a guard...
...over the head and make grimaces, a lady (term used by courtesy) next them was overcome with paroxysms of joy. Tears made little canyons down her cheeks and spots on Mr. Hollisheimer's cuff. Finally she was reduced to a jellylike mass, from which issued increasingly faint gurgles as a gun went off in someone's face, or a man got run over by a trolley car. Mr. Hollisheimer gently closed her eyes, and she breathed more easily. Mr. Sever thinks he made a mistake. She should have been allowed to laugh herself to death...
...desire, the ignorance of a paradise of Nirvana. For such a delicate symphony, the gentleness of Beatrice Terry as Prioress and the raspiness of Ruth Wilton as the disciplinary Sister Sagrario seem too strongly accented. Yet the production, as a whole, leaves an impression as beautiful as a faint winter sunset?and as heartbreaking...
...mother and father, who were always running from rattlesnakes, taught him to. Last week he chased after the children, whistling all the while a shrill whine. This child's foot, that child's leg he nipped at. Then his jaws sagged open, his hind legs dragged a faint furrow in a Levelland street, in the final stiffening of rabies, given him by one of the town hounds or by some coyote bum. Four of the children he had bitten were rushed to Austin, for treatment...