Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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- I laughed uneasily. -œJeez, you guys make it sound like I was on the brink of death or something. I just fainted.- (Sabina) – Jaye Wells
- I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.David – Jeana Kendrick
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- A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything. – Jo Bousquet