half-fainting

Like familiar chords of childhood melodies, every intonation, every trick of her husband's voice swept in upon her, fluttering her heart and weakening her knees till she lay half-fainting against the door.

The Wife of a King 2010

Like familiar chords of childhood melodies, every intonation, every trick of her husband's voice swept in upon her, fluttering her heart and weakening her knees till she lay half-fainting against the door.

The Wife of a King 2010

I reeled away from him and leaned against the cabin in a half-fainting condition.

Chapter 5 2010

The next instant I threw myself through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side.

Sole Music 2010

I was half-fainting with fear and shock when they dropped me sprawling in a chair, and Ignatieff sat down behind the table and waved them out.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

I was half-fainting with pain, and I must have swooned again, for the next thing I knew there was a blinding glare before my eyes, the shooting had ceased altogether, and there were voices talking close by.

THE NUMBERS 2010

I'll swear she stamped as she said it, and even at the time, half-fainting with pain that I was, I thought it sounded ridiculous; and then suddenly with an agonising jerk that made me cry out, the fearful traction on my limbs was relaxed, and I was sagging against the wheel, trying to % top my tortured legs from buckling under me.

Fiancée 2010

Gallantin yelled above the din for the second girl, and again Ilario named a man; this one at least had the decency to haul her away, half-fainting as she was, to some private place, pursued by the groans of that mob of devils.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Ursula meanwhile was sitting on her little sofa in a half-fainting condition, her head thrown back, her braids unfastened, while every now and then her sobs broke forth.

Ursula 2006

That thou couldst behold her phrensy on this occasion, and her half-speechless, half-fainting prostration at thy feet, and yet retain thy evil purposes, will hardly be thought credible, even by those who know thee, if they have seen her.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006