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Definition of Swooners
1. swooner [n] - See also: swooner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swooners
Literary usage of Swooners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities by John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles (1859)
"Two or three fainted with the heat it occasioned, and shutters sufficient could
not have been found to convey the expectant swooners to more airy places, ..."
2. The Roman Breviary: Reformed by Order of the Holy Oecumenical Council of Trent by Catholic Church, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Bute (1879)
"... in that they have no ears for the word of truth. They foam at the mouth also,
and pine away with folly. For it is the way with idiota, and swooners, ..."
3. An American's London by Louise Closser Hale (1920)
"And now little boys and girls buried in the crowds for hours were being disinterred
and lifted up on fathers' shoulders, and the swooners began to take ..."
4. An American's London by Louise Closser Hale (1920)
"... up on fathers' shoulders, and the swooners began to take notice. The buzz grew
louder, but I would not flap it, away, for I knew now that it was not a ..."
5. The Historical Magazine (1859)
"Two or three fainted with the heat it occasioned, and shutters sufficient could
not have been found to convey the expectant swooners to more airy places, ..."
6. The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities by John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles (1859)
"Two or three fainted with the heat it occasioned, and shutters sufficient could
not have been found to convey the expectant swooners to more airy places, ..."
7. The Roman Breviary: Reformed by Order of the Holy Oecumenical Council of Trent by Catholic Church, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Bute (1879)
"... in that they have no ears for the word of truth. They foam at the mouth also,
and pine away with folly. For it is the way with idiota, and swooners, ..."
8. An American's London by Louise Closser Hale (1920)
"And now little boys and girls buried in the crowds for hours were being disinterred
and lifted up on fathers' shoulders, and the swooners began to take ..."
9. An American's London by Louise Closser Hale (1920)
"... up on fathers' shoulders, and the swooners began to take notice. The buzz grew
louder, but I would not flap it, away, for I knew now that it was not a ..."
10. The Historical Magazine (1859)
"Two or three fainted with the heat it occasioned, and shutters sufficient could
not have been found to convey the expectant swooners to more airy places, ..."
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