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faint a sudden spontaneous loss of consciousness, usually momentary, caused by an insufficient supply of blood to the brain How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The laboratory grew faint and hazy, then fainter and ever fainter. I clambered into the pit and fancied I heard a faint movement under my feet. Heralded by the increasing fierceness of the squalls, sometimes by a faint flash of lightning like the signal of a lighted torch waved far away behind the clouds, the shift of wind comes at last, the crucial moment of the change from the brooding and veiled violence of the south-west gale to the sparkling, flashing, cutting, clear- eyed anger of the King's north-westerly mood. |
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