Swooned
[swu:nd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Swoon
Typed by Ernestine
Examples
- Had the shape approached me I might have swooned. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The girl had swooned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Oliver nearly swooned after this frightful scene, and was so weak that for an hour or more, he had not the strength to walk. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Near the Béguinage, amidst the stress of flood and gust, and in the perplexity of darkness, you had swooned and fallen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In a moment more I should certainly have swooned away in his arms, but for an interruption from the outer world, which brought me to myself again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She swooned with acute comprehension and pleasure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And, after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable, than when they used perfumes, under which I immediately swooned away. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Typed by Ernestine