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Meanings of fainting fit in English

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Usage of fainting fit in English
1
She expected despairing cries, or a fainting fit; nothing of the kind.
The Honor of the Name
2
It was as bad a fainting fit as I have ever seen.
Helena
3
When she realised that it was no fainting fit, she started back.
Married
4
For that is what brought about her fainting fit, I verily believe.
Swept Out to Sea / Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers
5
What might she not say when she awoke from this fainting fit?
Scenes of Clerical Life
6
Yesterday I found her in her chair in a fainting fit.
A Love Episode
7
I hope you're fully recovered from your fainting fit or whatever it was?
Lucky Jim
8
In a common fainting fit, give the patient as much air as possible.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoh...
9
She therefore fell prone upon the ground, in a fainting fit.
The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century
10
She was quite overcome, and sank away in a kind of fainting fit.
The Annals of the Poor
11
Bluebell recovered only to fall from one fainting fit into another.
Bluebell / A Novel
12
A few days ago, after lunch, grandmamma had a kind of fainting fit.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel
13
Valentine explained that he had remembered Cuckoo's fainting fit and feared its renewal.
Flames
14
Let not Starbuck die, if die he must, in a woman's fainting fit.
Moby Dick
15
At length she had a fainting fit, falling with two dishes in her hands.
Thyrza
16
He had succumbed to the fainting fit which had been imminent for several hours.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
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