She can only speak in a whisper—and fainted away twice this morning on poor Arthur's trying to suppress a cough.
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Her parents have agreed to marry her to wealthy Ibn Salam. Astonished by these news Leyli fainted away.
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Cassander, Harlequin, and Columbine run off in terror. The whale grows visibly larger, taking up the entire stage. Little by little, the side facing the audience disappears, revealing the interior of the monster, Pierrot within, having fainted away. The whale thrashes with intestinal convulsions, and its jolts end by drawing Pierrot from his stupor.
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His first child, Elizabeth "Bess" Burns (1785–1817), was born to his mother's servant, Elizabeth Paton (1760–circa 1799), while he was embarking on a relationship with Jean Armour, who became pregnant with twins in March 1786. Burns signed a paper attesting his marriage to Jean, but her father "was in the greatest distress, and fainted away". To avoid disgrace, her parents sent her to live with her uncle in Paisley. Although Armour's father initially forbade it, they were married in 1788.
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. Although he felt passionately about her, he did not share his feelings with her, and when he happened to see her leaving a church in Wrexham in 1794 he 'turned sick and all but fainted away'. The "relationship" lasted only a short while, and in October 1795, she married Fryer Todd. When Coleridge made plans with friend and future brother-in-law, Robert Southey, to emigrate to the "banks of the Susquahanna," Evans wrote Coleridge imploring him not to go.
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On the 14th of Rabi'-ul-Awwal 633 A.H. (27 November 1235 CE) he attended a Mehfil-e-Sama where the poet Ahmad- e Jam sang the following verses: Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki was so overcome and enraptured by these verses that he fainted away. He died four days later while still in that state of ecstasy. His dargah (shrine) is adjacent to the Zafar Mahal, near Qutub Minar complex, in Mehrauli, Delhi. After his death his will was read that emphasized that only the person who has done no haram and have never left the sunnah of Asr prayer may only lead his namaz-e-janaza (funeral prayer).
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Although hit in the wrist a long way over the lines, and > despite the loss of much blood – the cockpit was like a shambles – he > brought the machine back and made a perfect landing on our side of the lines > [near Sains-en-Gohelle], and then fainted away. Trust Meintjes not to faint > till his job was done. After a long stay in hospital, he was posted to Central Flying School on 25 July 1918 as an instructor, receiving the Air Force Cross for his work there. On 2 May 1919 he was appointed Officer in Charge at No. 1 Southern Aeroplane Repair Depot, at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, and was transferred to the RAF unemployed list on 14 June 1919.
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He also said that her court hoops were so large that on one occasion they became entangled with those of the Queen and the two women had to stand and pull against each other to disentangle themselves. Louis XV was most annoyed and Monsieur de La Tremoille was sent to the duchesse du Maine with the measurement for the hoops Mademoiselelle should wear, with the rider that in future she should stand at a more respectful distance from the Queen. Louise Françoise would never marry; dying at the Château d'Anet at the age of 35 having been taken ill while out riding, noted by the duc de Luynes; he noted also No sooner was she placed in her carriage than she fainted away. She never recovered consciousness, and died a few hours later.
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The crowd demanded to be allowed inside the Temple to show the head to Marie Antoinette in person, but the officers of the Temple managed to convince them not to break in to the prison. In her historical biography, Marie Antoinette : The Journey Antonia Fraser claims Marie Antoinette did not actually see the head of her long-time friend, but was aware of what was occurring, stating, "...the municipal officers had had the decency to close the shutters and the commissioners kept them away from the windows...one of these officers told the king '..they are trying to show you the head of Madame de Lamballe'...Mercifully, the Queen then fainted away". After this, the head and the corpse was taken by the crowd to the Palais Royal, where the Duke of Orléans and his lover Marguerite Françoise de Buffon were entertaining a party of Englishmen for supper. The Duke of Orléans reportedly commented 'Oh, it is Lamballe's head: I know it by the long hair.
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