Fainting [verb]

One fainting-fit succeeded to another; till at last Alphonse began to be seriously alarmed.

Mrs. Ducksmith quickly recovered from her fainting attack, and gently pushed the solicitous Aristide away.

To himself he added: "And what's more, my child, you'll have a little fainting affair in a few minutes, if you don't have a feed."

The Sunday evening after I came down here I had a sort of half-fainting-fit, coming home from church.

I was nearly fainting, and at the moment of writing these lines I see the whole scene over again in all its imposing reality.

You must have your rooms well ventilated if you wish to avoid fainting and discomfort.

Rapport, who took the lovers part, had been kept awake all night by an abscess on his finger, and was nearly fainting.

The father did not impress her as being the man to hold up her fainting head or ease her bruised heart.

And softly raising her in his powerful arms, he laid her gently on a butacca, where she reclined in a half-fainting condition.

The bully stood in amazement, and dropped Eric, who fell on the turf nearly fainting, and bleeding at the nose.