Word: faintings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crowds had come to Boston at dawn, lugging soapboxes, peach baskets, camp chairs, pillows, even armchairs. Schools, stores, factories were closed; suburbs were deserted; boards went up on downtown windows. In the waiting crowd stood, sat or perched the thousand who would faint, the 400 who would be injured (broken toes, arms, ribs), the one man who would die of heart strain before the long, long day was over...
...faint roar of many voices broke in on his thoughts. His watch!--Christo et Ecclesiae -- 2:10 "Where did I put those pennants...
...Moorman discusses notable cases of consumptive genius-or as consumptive Katherine Mansfield called it, "the faint glitter on the plant that the frost has laid a finger on." A year before his death in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: "For 14 years I have not had a day's real health; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed, and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness. . . ." Yet always his work grew...
Only one of the seven was in civilian clothes-Count Teleki." While Ribbentrop was reading the crisp decision, Rumania's Manoilescu grew pale and faint. Baron von Dornberg hastened to his side with a glass of water...
...could not quite believe it. A revolutionary smell clung to him like the faint, unmistakable odor of the cell and the cellar. It showed in his quack-doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever...