Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this last leaves Mr. Farnol rather weak. Yet there are still a great many world-worn moderns, tired equally of Main Street and Mencken, who wish occasionally to roam along paths--and "The High Adventure" leads them thus. So perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen who can take his dog for a grand walk when the book is read, a grand walk with stick a-flourishing and mind a-scurrying down the broad highway of youth...
...Malvy. He seemed to totter and to be feebly protesting his innocence with his hand over his heart. Then he shrieked, clutched his left breast and fell in a swoon. He was carried from the Chamber amid genuine pandemonium. He recovered consciousness 20 minutes later, only to faint again. Physicians declared that his weak heart had suffered a shock from which he can scarcely recover for some weeks...
This sudden manner with which the Countess announces that she has a book for sale provokes a faint smile of suspicion. However, when one has occupied the front page of a nation's newspapers for several consecutive days, one can do wonders, even write novelist in fortnights...
...went to the Council Room and saw the telephone. A Professor Bell explained the whole process, which is most extraordinary. It had been put in communication with Osborne Cottage, and we talked with Sir Thomas and Mary Biddulph, also heard some singing quite plainly. But it is rather faint, and one must hold the tube close to one's ear." Bismarck. "A terrible man, infamous, hateful, monstrous!" Tennyson. "He is very peculiar looking and oddly dressed, but there is no affectation about him." Garibaldi (whose revolutionary tactics against the petty Italian states made possible the present United Kingdom...
...surgeon found that under the boy's skin were folded two tiny arm stumps. There were faint traces of some armless muscles. With boldness and calculation tha surgeon went to work; cut loose the stumps, brought them free; stretched muscles; grafted flesh and skin; produced two arm stumps as large around as the arm of a two-year-old baby. These grew strong, grew larger. Henry became able to wiggle them at will. Artificial arms were carefully fitted over them. He could do things for himself. Best of all he could have regular shirts "with sleeves." His joy when...