Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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MLLE. BERNHARDT has wisely decided to finish out her engagement in Boston, notwithstanding the dramatic scribe of last Tuesday's Echo, who damned her with faint praise, and gave the world to understand that she has no genius...
Just then an ominous growl broke upon my ears. I trembled violently, and my teeth rattled with fear. There was a rustling in the bushes - I looked up - I saw a horrid great creature with switching tail and fiery eyes. I wonder that I did not faint; perhaps I had self-possession enough to recognize the uselessness of such a proceeding; nevertheless I was paralyzed with fear, for the gates of eternity seemed about to engulf...
...Faint heart, they say, has never won fair lady...
Loud thro' life's whirl, when other songs wax faint...
...faint: your lips are pale...