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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

"I suppose that's what you've been expecting me to do -- faint all over the place -- swounds and vapours," she said, laughing faintly.

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

No kindly angel whispered to her that she should go in, now, for "swounds and vapours," and thus bolster up the protectiveness that had come to birth within him that night.

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

So play the foolish throngs with one that swounds;

Act II. Scene IV. Measure for Measure 1914

Over streams and fallen trees, and chinquepin ridges; through bogs and myrtle thickets and miles of grape vines -- swounds! but it was hot work!

Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

Kn. Look to my Lady there, [swounds again] — sure she can but counterfeit.

Sir Patient Fancy 1678

-- no! But for the name's sake, swounds, I were as good serve a master of clouts.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873