Quotes About Fainting

Young women do not faint nowadays, monsieur, without considerable provocation.

The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do. She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.

This is so embarrassing, Melantha murmured as he stopped beside her bed and leaned down to settle her on the mattress. His lips, she thought, brushed her temple. You frightened me out of ten years of my life when you tumbled off the couch, he muttered near her ear. You are not allowed to faint unless it is from my kisses.

Instantly, Lucinda fell to the floor in a swoon - Bronwyn groaned. Not again !

Claire?" Claire blinked open her eyes. She looked up at her mother, wondering why their faces were so close. "You fainted." "I didn't," Claire argued, though evidence pointed to the contrary. She was lying on her back in her own driveway. The policewoman was standing over her. Claire tried in vain to think of an insect the woman resembled, but honestly, she just looked overworked and tired.

And I'm looking at him like, 'Oh my God. This is Michael Jackson'. I fainted, blacked out - like seriously blacked out.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted? demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm. Men have died for less than that, ancient one, E-Thas reminded him. I am safe, retorted I-Gos, for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator.

Then she would faint once more and come to once more, only to relive new torments. My heart cannot bear to describe her ordeal any longer: An overwhelming sorrow makes me skip to the end of that journey, which lasted for more than four hours, after which we will still have some more agonizing hours to endure. Let us go now to the castle where the unhappy girl was being taken.

Hearthstone Passes Out Even More than Jason Grace (Though I Have No Idea Who That Is)

At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.

Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)

Now he understood. After a while, pain simply stopped. It was as though your mind was able to create a firewall beyond which it would not let you venture. You had to have a break from your anguish, or you'd go crazy. It was the psychological equivalent to fainting when physical pain became overbearing.

If I wrote, 'After delivering the acceptance speech, the candidate fainted,' you would know I was talking about a woman. Men do not faint; they pass out.

Miss Hepplewhite looked pained. "Miss Peck," she said at last, "a young lady should never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, run. Should you find yourself in a situation where you are at risk, it is always preferable to faint.

She wondered whimsically if he wore those spectacles in a vain attempt to keep ladies from fainting at his feet.

Unwell? I was fine, as good as one might feel in such circumstances. No, my friend, I merely pretended to faint. I'm a good actress. Actually, a thought had come into my mind: if a terrorist, I said to myself, were to blow up this church with all of us inside, at least one-tenth of all the hypocrisy in the world would disappear with us. So I had myself escorted out.

Please let me faint right now, because if I faint I will no longer be here, in this moment. It will be like in movies when a girl passes out from the horror of it all and the fighting happens while she is asleep and she wakes up in a hospital bed with a bruise or two, but she's missed all the bad stuff. I wish that was my life instead of this.

He fainted. Then he came to and remembered what happened and fainted again.

My reading with RuPaul was actually, for me, on a personal level, one of my favorites and the most shocking. This is someone I've wanted to read for a long time and so when he was standing there I nearly fainted.

At which vision, of continual middle age, the younger Miss Flowerman fainted.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice.

Oh, what have I done?" "You fainted." "I—I am very sorry.

He had never fainted in his life, and while he knew it was this whole life-mate, mind-blowing-sex business, it was still damned demoralizing to be fainting like a breathless virgin at the end of every encounter.