Lacking courage

Usage examples of faint.

But your far song, my faint one, what are they, And what their dance and faery thoughts and ours, Or night abloom with splendid stars and pale?

It bore both the rich aroma of leaves being burnt in the fall and the faint perfume of wildflowers ablow in the spring, but it also held a third attar which seemed to be the breath of the Wind itself which none could ever set name to.

The scene I cannot describe--I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.

The baying was very faint now, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had once violated, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which had been hovering curiously around it.

Initially, she appeared to have some bruising beneath one eye and faint scratches and abrasions on one knee.

Venice edition of the Councils contains all the acts of the synods, and history of Photius: they are abridged, with a faint tinge of prejudice or prudence, by Dupin and Fleury.

The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.

Besides, not the faintest proof can be adduced of any such perceptible correspondence subsisting between them.

He strokes the soft curling hair once more before lifting the adz, then grins as he realizes his fingers have left a faint black shadow on the kid.

He kept the aerator as low as possible, to make himself breathe great gasps that hurt his chest, but it made him dizzy, and he had to increase the oxygenation lest he faint.

Mercedes had fallen half fainting, when released from the warm and affectionate embrace of old Dantes.

For an instant Alec thought he saw a faint expression of pain across his features.

This time the glowing drops vanished as they touched Alec, leaving a faint tingling sensation in their wake.

The dark opening to the treasure chamber exhaled the faint perfume of ambergris, frankincense, and sandalwood.

Carlo was out cold, in the ambient just barely, in that very faint way you could pick up someone sound asleep, at very close range.