Quotes About Faint

etiolated skin.' Anselm blew smoke.

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild - and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.

The breeze was so faint that it was a smile, not a sigh.

He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.

The boat is very close now, its noises filling the air along with the smell of fuel. Mark can see the faint shadow of two people behind the darkened window now, and they both appear to be male. They both have short hair, anyway.

it seemed like he'd just dozed off. Or passed out was probably more accurate.

Her eyes narrowed until they were a faint greenish glitter, like a forest pool far back in the shadow of trees.

Era luna... o frantur? de lumin? sp?l?cit?, ca aripile unei furnici. Cand ochii se obiÅŸnuir? cu ea, întreaga cupol? a bilei de nisip se pref?cu într-un lichid str?lucitor, care avea Å£es?tura frunziÅŸului proasp?t.

I had a childish attraction to men of my father's generation, as if I still harbored a faint hope of being unorphaned, even at this late date.

Also, it must be said, I had a childish attraction to men of my father's generation, as if I still harbored a faint hope of being unorphaned, even at this late date.

You get into a habit of low expectations, which gives you a sort of contentment. You go through life as if through a mist, seeing little farther than your nose and scorning all that only appears wispy and faint. Then a bolt of lightning splits the mist and gives you a glimpse of all you might be missing.

whose hand my folded soul shall know while on faint hills do frailly go The peaceful terrors of the snow, and before your dead face which sleeps,a dream shall pass)

A faint smile played on his lips. Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it No...sir I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained.

Despereaux thought that he might faint with the pleasure of someone referring to his ears as small and lovely. He laid his tail against the Pea's wrist to steady himself and he felt the princess's pulse, the pounding of her heart, and his own heart immediately took up the rhythm of hers.

Gazing at the faintest and remotest of all the swarm of universes, I seemed, by hypertelescopic imagination, to see it as a population of suns; and near one of those suns was a planet, and on that planet's dark side a hill, and on that hill myself.

At the edge of his dreams, there was often a sound like the faint, distant cry of someone in distress, and for minutes after waking, he would feel the anxiety of some duty unfulfilled.

'Tis strange that death should sing.I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death.

There may be losses too great to understand That rove after you and--faint and terrible-- rip unknown through your hand.

I suppose it is quite certain he is dead?" I asked faintly. "There are bits of him stuck to your shoe," he remarked, rather unhelpfully.

Are you going to faint?" I never should have had him try on heavy armor

You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between you and gravity. Impossible.

now barely visible about 7 miles away.

The first whisper of stars is a faint thing a candle sound, too far away to read by...