Word: faints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Trails of smoke tell the tale." Newsmen went around to Planet's office, demanded the original print, rubbed wet fingers over it. Three of the planes, most of the smoke disappeared. There remained a dark spot which looked like a Nazi raider spiraling down in flames, several other faint specks, some dark streaks that might have been smoke. Reporters who had seen the air battle from the cliffs, two days earlier, were of the opinion that the smoke streaks came from fragments of a burning balloon...