How To Use Faintness In A Sentence
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` ` This craven, '' he thought, ` ` will lose the day in pure faintness and cowardice of heart, which he calls tender conscience.
The Talisman
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Alternatively, dizziness may be used to describe a swaying sensation, or a feeling of weakness, faintness, light-headedness or unsteadiness.
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Vomiting and faintness were reported among those who tried to work without masks when cleaning up the beaches.
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Now that bulimy is not hunger but a faintness, is manifest from all laboring beasts, which are seized with it very often through the smell of dry figs and apples; for a smell does not cause any want of food, but rather a pain and agitation in the stomach.
Essays and Miscellanies
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His hands and feet were bound with iron: but his head, owing to faintness from the wounds he had received at Lumloch, was so bent down on his breast as he reclined on the boat, that I could not then see his face.
The Scottish Chiefs
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He suffers from lethargy, faintness and major weight loss.
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Maybe it was the fuzziness of the peak at Vishnu Temple or the faintness of the cliffs at Hopi Point.
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The hijacker gradually freed 10 passengers after stopping, including a man suffering from faintness who police initially said had escaped.
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the faintness or potency of the feeling
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The side effects include nausea and faintness.
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Scarry asserts in Dreaming by the Book, — its faintness, two-dimensionality, fleetingness, and dependence on volitional labor — with the vivacity, solidity, persistence, and givenness of the perceptible world .... this comes about because we are given procedures for reproducing the deep structure of perception, and because the procedures themselves have an instructional character that duplicates the
Seeing Is Reading
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Call your doctor if you experience dizziness, headache, faintness, muscle weakness, nausea, or chest pain.
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The patient behaves recognizant faintness, understand and unresponsive, memory ebbs , active attention drops, self-awareness exists, all round recognizant obstacle, directional force mistake.
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Maybe it was the fuzziness of the peak at Vishnu Temple or the faintness of the cliffs at Hopi Point.
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To bezoar stone most subscribe, Manardus, and [4328] many others; it takes away sadness, and makes him merry that useth it; I have seen some that have been much diseased with faintness, swooning, and melancholy, that taking the weight of three grains of this stone, in the water of oxtongue, have been cured.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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When Georgiana recovered consciousness, she found herself breathing an atmosphere of penetrating fragrance, the gentle potency of which had recalled her from her deathlike faintness.
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They might get signs of sickness like headache, dizziness, faintness, weakness or a choking feeling.
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The sense of extension may be ranked amongst these appetites, since the deficiency of its object gives disagreeable sensation; when this happens in the arterial system, it is called faintness, and seems to bear some analogy to hunger and to cold; which like it are attended with emptiness of a part of the vascular system.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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He drew back a little, as he spoke; it might be simple disgust; it might be fear; it might be what we call antipathy, which is different from either, and which will sometimes show itself in paleness, and even faintness, produced by objects perfectly harmless and not in themselves offensive to any sense.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
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Faintness and morning sickness can be signs that you are pregnant.
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Its breathy roar seemed too quick, too bold, for the faintness of its light.
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Only for an immediate and transitory need, such as faintness or shock, is the quickly passing stimulating power of alcohol useful; and even for such purposes other stimulants are more valuable.
Problems of Conduct
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The high signal to noise ratio and the faintness of signal captured by these devices are analogous to the hazy, faint pinhole images.
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faintness of heart and infirmity of purpose
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Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side — whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness.
Barnaby Rudge
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The blood pressure drops, causing faintness, and the body may start to store urine.
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As for a temporary faintness, that is by no means outside our experience.
Lady Good-for-Nothing
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Assyria (Re 17: 15). fainted -- literally, were "faintness" (itself); more forcible than the verb.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Farther, the air being variously impregnated, sometimes more and sometimes less, with vapours and exhalations fitted to retund and intercept the rays of light, it follows that the appearance of the horizontal moon hath not always an equal faintness, and by consequence that luminary, though in the very same situation, is at one time judged greater than at another.
A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
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It would not probably be unfair to suspect such faintness of apprehension, and such unfixedness and indifference of thought, in the majority of any large number of persons, though drawn together ostensibly to attend to matters of gravest concern.
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
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This can cause symptoms of faintness, sweating and a pounding heart, and if not treated by eating or drinking something sugary, can lead to collapse and coma.
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'I told you to wait outside, sir,' he said with exasperation, stating clearly that my faintness was my own fault.
In The Frame
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About two o'clock in the day he complained of a feeling of faintness, said he felt ill and should not recover; and in a few minutes was insensible with symptoms of ingravescent apoplexy.
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 3
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I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
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That's when, for whatever reason, the little white pill I have to take first thing in the morning sets my water system into hyper-productive mode, resulting in feelings of faintness and lassitude.
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A trembling like that of faintness which is fought off by an effort of will ran over her, and he watched the pale, unsteady quiver of her eyelids.
The Wheel of Life
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Maybe it was the words, or the sudden wash of feeling, the sadness that came over me like a kind of faintness, that made me yearn forward as I said those last words, and meant them with all my heart even as I felt the metal of that crowbar in my hand, I loved you, too,
Black and Blue
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Red lips are comely, and a sign of health, as the paleness of the lips is a sign of faintness and weakness; her lips were the colour of scarlet, but thin lips, like a thread of scarlet.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Some divers may develop fever, headache, nausea, difficulty in swallowing or breathing, faintness, rapid heart beat, weakness, chills, diarrhea, and muscle spasms.
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Despite their faintness, Goya's lines retain everywhere a sense of hard physical toil.
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When she asperged the warm water with cologne, -- it was her secret delight and greatest effort of economy to buy this cologne, -- she always had one little moment of what she called faintness -- that faintness which had veiled her eyes, and chained her hands, and stilled her throbbing bosom, when as a bride she came from the church with him.
Balcony Stories
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They hae suffered like the lave o 'us," replied Jenny; "for they shared every bit and sup wi 'the whole folk in the Castle -- I'm sure my poor een see fifty colours wi' faintness, and my head's sae dizzy wi 'the mirligoes that I canna stand my lane.
Old Mortality, Complete
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Mr Witherden, sir, a kind of faintness is upon my spirits — if you would do me the favour to ring the bell and order up a glass of something warm and spicy, I shall, notwithstanding what has passed, have a melancholy pleasure in drinking your good health.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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Jenny; “for they shared every bit and sup wi’ the whole folk in the Castle — I’m sure my poor een see fifty colours wi’ faintness, and my head’s sae dizzy wi’ the mirligoes that I canna stand my lane.”
Old Mortality