Mr. Segundus began to suspect that they had an uneventful morning, and that when a strange gentleman had walked into the room and dropt down in a swoon, they were rather pleased than otherwise.
Quotes about swoon (12 Quotes)
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh¡teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.
That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?
In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.
Locke sank into a swoon The Garden died God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
And when Musa came at Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to him, he said My Lord show me (Thyself), so that I may look upon Thee. He said You cannot (bear to) see Me but look at the mountain, if it remains firm in its place, then will you see Me but when his Lord manifested His glory to the mountain He made it crumble and Musa fell down in a swoon then when he recovered, he said Glory be to Thee, I turn to Thee, and I am the first of the believers.
We're obviously picking a bad time to go into a little bit of a swoon. And it's hurting us.
They're supposed to be independent but still swoon over a diamond engagement ring.
For twenty pages perhaps, he read slowly, carefully, dutifully, with pauses for self-examination and working out examples. Then, just as it was working up and the pauses should have been more scrupulous than ever, a kind of swoon and ecstasy would fall on him, and he read ravening on, sitting up till dawn to finish the book, as though it were a novel. After that his passion was stayed the book went back to the Library and he was done with mathematics till the next bout. Not much remained with him after these orgies, but something remained a sensation in the mind, a worshiping acknowledgment of something isolated and unassailable, or a remembered mental joy at the rightness of thoughts coming together to a conclusion, accurate thoughts, thoughts in just intonation, coming together like unaccompanied voices coming to a close.
I labeled him 'InfalliBill' because of our unwillingness to prod and push for answers. Fans are the stockholders of Cowboys Inc. The media is supposed to be the conduit. But InfalliBill has manipulated us in such a way that we show up to his orchestrated press conferences and do nothing more than cozy up to him. We swoon and spoon. It's all very romantic.
We've got to see if we can get something going from the little funk we're in, ... Obviously, we've picked a bad time to go into a little swoon and it's hurting us.
The thing that's truly been remarkable is that there hasn't been a swoon. She's been consistent with her scoring, consistent with her rebounding, she's taken care of the basketball, and she's played at her best when the lights are the brightest.