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Letter "F" » faint
«Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.»
«Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.»
«How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? / And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.»
«In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.»
«He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.»
«In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, / I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: / And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.»
«If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small»
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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«Faint heart ne'er won fair lady»
«If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.»
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