Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Sir Richard answered that hee might doe with his body what he list, for hee esteemed it not, and as he was carried out of the shippe hee swounded, and reuiuing againe desired the company to pray for him. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And so he swounded away; and that made me vicious, too, and I killed two of the red niggurs, before you could say Jack ❋ Robert M. Bird (N/A)
Who was most marble there changed colour; some swounded, all sorrowed: if all the world could have seent, the woe had been universal. ❋ Unknown (1914)
'Iron-armed Ike,' who took four villyuns, two in each hand, and swung them around his head till they got so dizzy that they swounded away, and then he threw one of 'em through a winder, and used the other three like baseball bats to knock down a gang of desperate ruffians that was comin 'to the rescue. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
Then, when I had a light again, I see Esquire Martin on the settle, all white and sweaty as if he had swounded away, and his arms hanging down; and I was going to help him; but just then it caught my eye that there was something like a bit of a dress shut into the cupboard door, and it came to my mind I had heard that door shut. ❋ Unknown (1899)
There was northing but cadders in the douw-pollar, and no douws: and so, arter she had barnt the balk, and the door-stall, and the plancher, she run into the par-yard, thru the pytle, and then swounded behinn'd a sight o 'gotches o' beergood. ❋ Unknown (1873)
'The rabblement hooted and clapped their chopped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it; and for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.' ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)
But as they moaned and swounded there too numerous to relate, ❋ Eugene Field (1872)
Their rest, however, was not of long duration, for in a few minutes the captain rushed out, and exclaiming "She's swounded, lad," grasped ❋ Unknown (1859)
Their rest, however, was not of long duration, for in a few minutes the captain rushed out, and exclaiming "she's swounded, lad," grasped Ruby by the coat and dragged him into the cottage, where he found his mother lying in a state of insensibility on the floor. ❋ Unknown (1859)
It sent in the kitchen winders as if they'd bin made of tissue paper, sir, an 'cook she went into highstericks in the coal-bunker, Margaret she swounded in the scullery, and Mary went into fits in the wash'us. ❋ Unknown (1859)
When this hell-hound had thus spoken, I gave a loud cry and swounded. ❋ Wilhelm Meinhold (1824)
We were still sighing over such words as these when we came near to the churchyard, and there sat the accursed witch Lizzie Kolken at the door of her house with her hymn-book in her lap, screeching out at the top of her voice, "God the Father, dwell with us," as we drove past her; the which vexed my poor child so sore that she swounded, and fell like one dead upon me. ❋ Wilhelm Meinhold (1824)
Table, by which going to raise himself he pulls down all the Dressing things: at the same instant Sir Patient leaps from the Bed, and she returns from the door and sits on Wittmores back as he lies on his hands and knees, and makes as if she swounded. ❋ Unknown (1678)
Cæsar refus'd the crown, that it had almost chok'd Cæsar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and for mine own part, ❋ William Shakespeare (1590)
The Prophet of mercy, though still freshly swounded by these very people, called out in mercy to spare them and remarked, "I still have hope that from their progeny will be those that worship Allah!" ❋ Guests (2008)
