“What shall it be this time?” he said, still with the same faint suggestion of irony. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Relief come o’er me so much I near fainted out the saddle. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There was a charred smell in the air, faint but evident, and a light breeze on my arms and face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The room is cold, dark, barely illuminated with a faint green glow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The faint glow of dawn showed over the trees and dimmed the stars as Cole started to pull on his tennis shoes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He noticed that he badly wanted to urinate, and felt a faint surprise, because he had done so only two or three hours ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The same faint voice, the same cry I had heard somewhere before. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves made no sound among themselves, only faint noises as they went under the canoe or struck against it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She browsed the busy pages with a crisp flip-flip-flip that stirred up the faint smell of paper. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Amari could hear her flesh sizzle, and she nearly fainted as she realized she was being branded. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more I thought about him, the worse became the queasy feeling that comes before fainting. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds of smoke unfurled beneath the wide green rims as the leaves darkened and withered in the flames, their words becoming faint distorted lines before they turned to ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even the faint smell that warned her what it was before it touched her tongue soon made her feel like retching, but she drained the cup all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hearing the faint sounds of the hook-handed man talking to Justice Strauss in the garden, Klaus looked frantically around the library for something that could be helpful. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her stomach was starting to bother her and she was starting to have these fainting spells, you know, she’d just black out in the middle of the day. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flare had burned out in the floor leaving a patch of white ash and there was a faint smell of burnt wood in the room. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her pale arms, bare almost to the shoulder, were thin and wrinkled, with faint blue veins and a few purple scabs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She was shivering, and the faint glow that usually hung around her was fading. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

At lunch, in the twinkling noon light, she found what looked to be a faint heart traced into the grime of the kitchen window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice was quiet, firm, but kind; there was about the man’s thin lips a faint smile that seemed to have always been there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for a touch of emotion, the faintest glow. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The group returns in the evening, exhausted and faint, carrying what the expedition has killed: two boars, several iguanas, and the gentleman Edward Brookes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the silence of that barren country they fancied that they heard faint sounds behind them, a stone falling, or the imagined step of flapping feet on the rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I feel nauseated, hot, prickly, on the verge of fainting or throwing up. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cavern ceiling was so high above us it might’ve been a bank of storm clouds, except for the stalactites, which glowed faint gray and looked wickedly pointed. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The street below isn’t lit very well, but I can see Marlene’s faint outline on the pavement. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Things have moved just too fast. It was a faint hope. And now there’s this infection—” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A little faint trail, skinny as anything, hardly even there, leading away from the first turn of the road and toward the falls. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the faint light of what is left of day, she can barely make out the road ahead. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Raymie thought that she might faint, too, even though she had never fainted before and had no idea what almost fainting felt like. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” he replies, even though I see a faint blush on his cheeks. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’ was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led up to the eye-sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I reached the sanctuary door, I allowed myself to turn around, head faint and legs trembling. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Izzy took a half step back from the doorway, and the storm door, which she’d been holding open with her foot, gave a faint shriek. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pondered the faint, red dot among the stars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Safe Horses had a faint chemical odor, but this one reeked of sun and sweat. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before the front door was opened, he heard the faint roar of voices. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a faint shadow appeared behind my head in the puddle. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He sees them sometimes against the peach-colored paint on the wall, faint specks engorged with his blood, just inches below the ceiling, always too high up to kill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I understood what boxing meant, but I hadn’t the faintest idea where America was. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put them on and his bedroom came into clearer focus, lit by a faint, misty orange light that was filtering through the curtains from the street lamp outside the window. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I hadn't the faintest idea what "this matter" was, but I was more annoyed than interested. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The voice was very faint and breaking up. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must’ve said it too loud, because the man gave him his standard Be quiet look, just visible in the faint light.Then, in a soft voice, he spoke back. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You planned that,” Dill said, with a faint smile. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Dizziness edged with blue lights came fringing his forehead, and he knew that he would be fainting soon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I aimed it to the side; a faint gleam reflected back. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Everybody knows that I’m the girl who’s really shy and practically faints at the sight of a boy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I can hear a faint beeping not far from me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Merope was so white Harry felt sure she was going to faint. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Bigger heard the faint excited sound of mob voices coming through the concrete walls of the building. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said, my voice sounding faint, even to myself. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he keeled over on the grass in a dead faint. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pads of butter floated on the surface and a faint chickeny aroma fumed up to my nostrils. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a faint jingle of harness, the whisper of a blade drawn from its sheath. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost fainting and dying to get back to college and tell everybody. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

IN THE MORNING, IN THE EVENING, AIN'T WE GOT FUN---- Outside the wind was loud and there was a faint flow of thunder along the Sound. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But then when Marlena pulled the blanket back from his hair and I saw that it was red, I thought I might actually faint from joy. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Those who desire to be purified cannot be refused and the black stain of his guilt had grown fainter and fainter through his years of lonely wandering and pain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believe if she had come any closer to me I should have fainted. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A faint fecal odor greeted him, though less overpowering than he’d expected. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Outside, I can hear shrieking children playing in a back garden somewhere—and beyond that, the faint and familiar rumble of the train. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the middle of one of those rays, at a tiny, faint dot. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the distance, Toby heard the faint yell of a siren. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A faint light source appeared a few feet ahead, and as they got closer their surroundings began to come into focus a bit. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They stopped only for meals of grubs and berries, and whenever they did, Pax searched the air for any trace of his boy’s scent, for the faintest sound of his voice. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She waited like that, hardly able to get a breath past her Adam’s apple, until she began to feel quite faint. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hope to God she does not faint. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit’s fate. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Returning to the ashes, Cole noticed faint smoke curling up from one mound. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She smelled the faint perfume of his shaving soap. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As she scraped at the hide, nicking bits of meat and gristle from the surface, she began to get all empty and peculiar and faint inside. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Cora smiled back at him uncertainly and gave a faint nod of agreement. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Somewhere beyond the gushing waters, my ears catch the faintest of screams. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She did not remember how far she walked, which direction she went, when she fainted, or how she was found. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kid standing next to me dropped into a dead faint, and then there wasn’t a single one of us that wasn’t screaming. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This was a normal glow, nothing to get excited about, that faint green. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not realized it, but I had fainted. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over my shoulder and snorted at the gold-and-black book bag I was now wearing, with golden zippers and a faint hum rippling through it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But beneath the heady perfume, there was another faint scent. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam could hear his voice, faint but clear. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She closed the door and almost fainted when she saw the older boy standing there in the kitchen, swaying slightly. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was entirely deserted and silent, except that when she listened carefully she could hear a faint humming in the distance, as if something were running—another motor? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Help! Help! Mercy!” cried the Witch in a faint voice, staggering after them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The party across the way was still going strong and a faint but boisterous rap song throbbed obtrusively in the distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I suddenly felt so sick to my stomach I thought I might faint. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My parents would freak even more if they saw you carrying me in. My mom is probably going to faint when she sees my face, and my dad, he’ll—” I head toward my trailer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Blue was hovering about on the periphery of the circle—a faint smile of anticipation softening his face. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

From ahead came the faint sound of rushing waters. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Through von Rumpel’s mind sail visions of the Fiihrermuseum, glittering cases, bowers beneath pillars, jewels behind glass— and something else too: a faint power, like a low voltage, coming ofF the stone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In here, the lines of light cast a faint blue hue against our skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As they passed, I shrank back, listening as the tramp and shouts grew fainter. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then he noticed a very faint trail of adult footprints in the light of the light post. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her voice had become really loud and I thought it was because I was about to faint. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each camera was emitting a faint beam, like the last evening sun rays. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Though a faint breeze blew in from the window the air in the room was sour and close. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A faint, pale sound, no more than a soft breath, was all they could utter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The faint sound of the sirens cuts off sharply. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The shades of the windows were drawn but light shone through them, and from somewhere in the house a faint melody seeped out and was lost in the wind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the faint stain it made on his handkerchief. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crumpled to the flowered carpet in a faint. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But those better things, just like the faint recollections he had of his mother, never lingered in his mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He caught faint sounds of pots and pans ratding in the kitchen below. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Far away, from the direction of the house, came the faint sound of a piano. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I must have fainted after they started speaking.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then she must have fainted, because the next thing she noticed was the sun, lying very low in the west. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t go another week with so little food. I’ll faint again and get in even bigger trouble. Here, Seven, please give me those boxes.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She has a faint scowl on her face, like she’s ready to get the picture taking over with. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

After a while, I managed to tune out what they were saying and only heard faint voices coming from different parts of the room. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Is this faint and reedy tune the only voice for thousands of light-years? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May I come in?” said a faint, uncertain voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he watched, they grew faint, shrouded in the rising morning mist. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one wears shoes indoors, and there’s always the faint scent of food lingering in the air. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But he remounted his horse and continued along the road he had chosen, in the faint hope of finding some cottage where he might ask for shelter and a meal. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was a faint sound, but not a bird. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With this faint assurance, I descended to the boat and we set out between the great prows of the fleet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Arm felt faint as he watched the human and inhuman spirits gather. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the faint tug of her gaze on the back of my neck. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Somewhere distant, there was a faint crackling sound, but he barely heard it over the roaring in his ears. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Abe Levver looked up from the far end of the conference table and smoothed his stubbled chin with a faint rasping sound. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was a tiny sprig, shriveled up after two months, but I could still smell the faint scent of the enchanted garden. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I thought she would faint, but after a long pause she smiled slightly. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the screen the faint, old, robed figure of Mercer toiled upward, and all at once a rock sailed past him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“THE WATCHDOG,” shouted another, fainting from fright, for racing down the road barking furiously and kicking up a great cloud of dust was the very dog of whom they had been speaking. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to sleep instead and keeled over sideways into a dead faint. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Amari could see seabirds flying overhead, and she looked with the rest of the women at the faint hint of green in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The pink face of Beatty now showed the faintest panic in the door. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being on the leading edge of integration was not for the faint of heart. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’m relieved to see that the glows around everyone are so faint that they won’t distract me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I look at him, at the collarbone peeking out from the neck of his T-shirt, at the faint curl of his lip, and I feel something heating up inside me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Little Pumpkin,” came a faint voice behind her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom soon disappeared in front of them, and the noise of his singing got fainter and further away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even as they sat and stood, as if suddenly frozen, it was answered by another cry, fainter and further off, but no less chilling to the blood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I peered into the darkness, but all I could see was the faint outline of far away mountains against the dusky horizon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Apollo had revived the fainting Hector and breathed into him surpassing power. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had Dad’s razor blade in his hand and was shaving off the faint hairs over his upper lip and laughing at the same time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he heard someone shout back, but the sound was too faint to make out the words. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Standing in the middle of the car, in the faint light filtering through the windows, she looked like a withered tree in a field of wheat. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is barefoot and her skin, encrusted with sand, is tinged a faint blue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded her vaguely of her father, and she paused by it, and caught the faint sooty scent of a railway carriage. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Through the stone, she could hear the faint rush of the Tumbles tone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the trees were so high, so thick, and now the sound was still fainter. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

An iridescent hummingbird hung suspended over the pie tin, wings a faint blur. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A faint voice calls behind me over the shrieking wind. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Production engineering, Gow reflected, “is a very expensive game and none of us, including Ernest, had the faintest notion what it meant.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His body was framed by the faint light behind him, making him appear almost spirit-like. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On this the other women joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the room that it almost made me faint to hear; it seemed like the pleasure of fiends. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She never perspired, never scratched herself, and always kept her faint scent of lavender and lemon. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain began to fall, faint but cold, and nobody said a word, not even Eevie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And, suddenly toppling forward, she fainted heavily on M. Bouc’s shoulder. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my mother’s voice, but it sounded so faint I could barely hear it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurled himself so hard at the faint form of the angel, and he expected so much more resistance than he met, that he couldn’t keep his balance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I was told to go to the highest place,” Arm said, turning over the matchbook from the She Elephant’s pocket. €ye fainted again when they went up in the elevator. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus McCoy had called me Space Boy so many times that I knew by heart the way his faint Southern accent stretched out the a and clipped the y, but doubt lingered. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her quill made a faint, soft scratching sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he awoke one morning with the old fear but with a faint remembrance of the darkness behind him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I went in my tree room for a snack of beechnuts when I heard a faint “halloooo” from far down the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their voices sounded faint and ghostly, as if dozens of ghosts floated over the rubble, crying in little, distant voices for help. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did, and Millard gasped in a way that made everyone cringe, then fainted into her arms. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The street lamps were faint smudges of yellow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up and held the book closer to the faint gray light coming through the narrow window high on his wall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s soft to the touch and the binding still gives off a faint whiff of leather. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

From one of the houses drifted the faint whistling sweetness of a Karhidish flute. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, than of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sun’s faint warmth restores my hope, assures me that I am safe now. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Here to erase me,” it continued, its voice trailing looped faint smoke into the air. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The rain and wind were overtaking her, rubbing away the details of her legs; the sun was bleaching her hooves into faint outlines, merging into the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only the web of golden light glowed up from the fathomless depths, growing fainter and fainter until it was finally swallowed by the darkness. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The old holy man offered the faintest touch of a smile. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A firm hand was clapped over my mouth, and I fainted. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Montag stared back at the city, far down the river, only a faint glow now. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she heard a faint voice in the wind, laughing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Where other people may hyperventilate or feel faint when having a panic attack, my anxiety essentially caused high levels of tiredness, leaving me feeling incredibly drained. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Candles flickered here and there in front of images of the saints; a faint and distant clatter came from the organ loft, where some repairs were going on; a servant was polishing the brass lectern. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed I would not faint from fear and tried again for the captain’s attention. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike ours, it seems to be empty except for a mass in the back corner, with a faint green glow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Crossing the grass he felt half faint and he had to stop. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t the faintest idea how a motor worked. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

What faint light they shed fell gloomily upon some roof corner or a waving strand of vine, transforming familiar daytime shapes to eerily unfamiliar phantoms. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The others crowded around as I dropped into a squat and stared at faint indentations that were covered with sandy-brown dust. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her head felt full of eiderdown, and there was a faint pain throbbing behind her eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jones handed Booth the candle, cautioning him to hide its faint glow during the crossing, lest they be spotted by passing patrol boats. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Uncle hugged my mother, she turned her face away a bit, as if his loudness made her feel faint. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the faint answering pressure of her hand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to hear his faint voice above the roar of the fire, the shouts of the men, and the snorting of the horses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aloe’s voice was faint from the living room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She could hear the soft whisper of his labored breathing, the endless rush of waters, the faint chords of some love song drifting up from the yard, so sad and sweet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Though the sun was weakening as it dropped, the temperature seemed to rise because the breeze that had brought faint relief all day had faded, and now the air was still and heavy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He didn't have the faintest idea that the Thief Lord was just as young as his messengers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma Georgina fainted, Grandma Josephine dropped her false teeth, Grandpa George put his head under the blanket, and Mr. and Mrs. Bucket came rushing in from the next room. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Breathless as she was, she mustered a faint smile and tried to reassure us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her wild hair is drawn into a tight ponytail, and her makeup is muted and faint. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the last was out, the resemblance to the cutaway model they used in anatomy classes was only faint. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Behind them in the valley, the highway was a faint dark vein through the yellow sand and red rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few of them are split from punching Caleb, and dotted with faint bruises. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She did not answer, but as he looked at her it seemed to him that something in her softened, as though a bitter frost were yielding at the first faint presage of Spring. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Sun God was battling the large clouds that now filled the sky world, and I didn’t take it as a good omen when the first faint flickers of his rising body were abruptly covered. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have the faintest idea that it meant “please reply.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The woods were dark, but there was a gray light on the snowy path, and in the sky there were a few faint stars. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hear faint cries of monkeys beyond a cinder-block wall. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin heard the voice from very far off, dim and faint. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When she was dying, she probably would remember, but now only the faint flash of a denim sleeve caught in her mind, a quick cry, “Hot grease in the kitchen!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment she could almost see their lips moving, whispering dark sweet secrets to one another in words too faint to hear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He dug on his knees with an entrenching tool while the man beside him threw up in the sand before lying down with his helmet across his face and fainting. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"You may," Theon said, a faint smile playing about his lips. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on the faint footsteps behind me, deciding whether or not to run. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gregory said I might have to tone it down a bit since we didn't want people in the first two rows fainting away. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her mother said comfortable with a faint shudder, and Olanna almost smiled because her mother had Odenigbo’s basic university house in mind, with its sturdy rooms and plain furniture and uncarpeted floors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Angelina cried out and nearly fainted upon discovering your true sex. We were all most astonished.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Max breathes those two faint words, her shoulders rising and falling. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There are beautiful, faint streaks of orange over the lake. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The last light of day was gone by then; the only light came from the stars above and the faint red glow of the dying fire in the center of the grove. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the small, slight tail gunner was lying on the floor beside Snowden in a dead faint, his face as white as a handkerchief, so that Yossarian sprang forward with revulsion to help him first. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now it seemed that he was ready to faint from the dizziness that the cold had induced. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed, the tips of his ears tinged with a faint pink. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a faint, ponderous beating of drums called. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His lips don't betray the faintest hint of a smile; rather, they're frozen in a perpetual scowl. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

By the time she reached the godswood, the noises had faded to a faint rattle of steel and a distant shouting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"I don't . . ." Her voice was no more than a whisper, almost as faint as theirs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the sky began to grow light, Tally heard the sound of the sea in the distance, a faint roar coming from across the horizon. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The smell of the fresh bread makes me nearly faint with hunger. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Several other, fainter, comets were studied in the same way over the next few years, confirming his conclusions. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes briefly, and beneath the scent of growing things was the faintest perfume of jasmine. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, skidding through snow and sleet, they made it to town, but the hospital there was rural, unequipped to care for such a faint whimper of life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You fainted, Potter? Is Longbottom telling the truth? You actually fainted?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Voldemort did not speak, but prowled in a circle, and Harry knew that he kept him temporarily mesmerized and at bay, held back by the faintest possibility that Harry might indeed know a final secret.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She found the path easily, passed the dark clump of willows, and saw ahead the deep shining pool that was Blackbird Pond and a faint reddish glow that must be Hannah’s window. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They passed Sefia and Archer, concealed in the undergrowth, and continued north along the trail, their voices growing fainter and fainter in the jungle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Max looks over at me, a faint smile on her face. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had a faint smirk on his face, a confidence that made Jam burn with anger. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” he says, more quietly, his accent fading, the faintest touch of dread returning to his voice, “here we are. Home.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A sound rose out of the darkness, faint and distant, but unmistakable: the howling of wolves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Courage. Courage, my child. These things are not granted to faint hearts.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one of the bricks stood a glass jug with a faint light coming from it, not much brighter than a glowworm would have made. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The wet wall gleamed in the faint moonlight. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A faint flush crept up his neck, and the pitch of his voice lifted, became a fraction higher. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have faint childhood memories of her visiting the house. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

From a distance came a faint whispering and rustling. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t fainted, but nonetheless I couldn’t get my body to move. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents’ voices were faint from the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A faint breeze, a touch on his cheek, just enough to move the ends of his hair, the sail moving back and forth gently. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fainted with all this grief and they carried me back to Yan Chang’s bed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far below them, so that the sound of the breaking waves was very faint, lay the sea. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

On my right I saw one boy faint. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t the faintest idea what any of this meant, but I already knew better than to ask questions of a Boazer. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone on the far end of the line called Faber's name a dozen times before the professor answered in a faint voice. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Icy white, sunny, and mute, the expanse everywhere was almost entirely unmarked except for faint feather patterns where a little bird had pushed off; or for tiny mouse tracks trickling across the still, shimmering snow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the branch and fumbled for it, almost faint from the money smell—the twinkling lights, the piano music. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The square of sunshine moves, diffuses, grows faint yellow. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma looks up and purses her lips for a second, and then a slow smile spreads across her face, erasing the faint, squinting worry lines between her eyes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was a faint noise and a little spit shot out of the hole. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I could hear faint voices now, and Gum Baby seemed more confident in where she was going. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You handled it pretty well. I’ve seen grown men faint dead away!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Alaric looked like he was going to faint, and Seven almost felt bad. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tessie was lying in bed when the faint purring or tingling in her navel ceased. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The light from the bathroom was just enough to make a faint rainbow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Looking up I could see faint moonlight filtering in through drain grates far overhead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At any moment now he knew that the end would come: his master would faint or fall, and all would be discovered, and their bitter efforts be in vain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was a faint glisten of perspiration high on Franny’s forehead. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once there was an old man who loved things, for the slightest contact with people produced in him a faint but persistent nausea. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon let the old man’s words fade to a faint buzz in the background. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Like lightning the thought comes to me: Don’t faint! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted my arms to let the faint breeze blow a cooling breath under my arms and across my aching ribs. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Masjid throws me a glance of surprise in the rearview mirror, and I catch a faint glimmer of a smile that he quickly extinguishes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A faint fragrance of incense drifted to me in the deep silence. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw signs of another village in the distance—she smelled smoke and saw the faint glow of something like civilization. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pressing against the faint warmth at the base of the chimney they settled down for the night. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she fainted, she would slide all the way back down the tunnel that it had taken her several hours to climb. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I'm going to faint," Mouse Girl says as a stream of sweat trickles down the tip of her pointy nose. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But a faint smile played across his mouth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Because it was there again, only faint and in the background at first, but growing all the while, so that afterwards it was what I kept thinking about. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I lightly trailed my hand over the perfect muscles of his arm, followed the faint pattern of bluish veins inside the crease at his elbow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Just the faint cry followed by the dull clunk. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I see a faint scar above his upper lip. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Through the phone Mrs. Richardson heard the faint blare of a siren passing by and then receding into the distance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By the quarter-mile mark, Eye had fainted, and Arm shook himself free of his friend’s thoughts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was faint sobbing coming from Scythe Volta’s room. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was like when I did the class presentation, f d been sure I was going to faint then too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And behind all of those noises, Raymie could hear the faint sound of music. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A faint breeze moved the hot air as they traveled. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I linger for a moment, offering a faint smile. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, I knew I would faint when my head got full. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a faint tug on my string. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He did not understand it; he was only aware of a dim suspicion, a faint memory, divine voices. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to make out the faint scribbles in the flickering light of the fire. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Whereas no one here has ever had the faintest cause for such delusions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faint scent of a skunk cuts through the smoke. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then the Doctorita’s voice breaks the night, faint, from inside the house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started down a faint path toward an archway in a tall, unkempt hedge. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The voice had been as faint as rustling leaves, as cold as hate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then out of the silence, a faint sound, from a distance, getting closer, like someone chuckling, privately, at a secret intimate joke. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mosque had just opened, and he could smell the faint scent of fresh paint in the wide, airy prayer hall. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Even the fountain which rose near the middle of the garden made only the faintest sound. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Until recently, if somebody said gosh darn, she would nearly faint. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I threw up something green and slimy, then fainted again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Posh Southern English with a faint French accent. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I had reached it and was debating which way to go when I heard the tractor engine, faint in the distance. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

How faint she felt, just listening to the stories other girls told — about a neighbor’s daughter, for example, who walked all the way home from Hangzhou, only to be sent back. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint ribbon of steam curled above the teapot and single cup of tea set before him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Catelyn raised her eyes, to where the faint red line of the comet traced a path across the deep blue sky like a long scratch across the face of god. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Raising the window, I heard the faint sound of a basketball being bounced from a few doors away. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the shingle was under water, I could see the faint line of red ember still smoldering along its edge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Same sleek fair hair, same small light build, same quick bewitching features with a faint hint of lunacy behind the bright eyes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She could feel it all over her body, like the same faint glow the spirits emitted radiated from her too. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Miss Brantley,” said Miss Peregrine to Bronwyn, “go and make up the fainting couch for Miss Avocet and then fetch a bottle of coca wine and another flask of brandy.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Modern radio telescopes are exquisitely sensitive; a distant quasar is so faint that its detected radiation amounts perhaps to a quadrillionth of a watt. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighs, murmuring a faint swear against my ear, and pulls away. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a creaking on the loft stairs and Jesse was looking down at her, very beautiful and eager in the faint blue moonlight. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

August’s arm was around my waist like she was afraid I’d keel over again in a blind faint, but really, I had never been more present. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is faint here, but once this is done, all the Dauntless will storm down the stairs and leave the Merciless Mart behind, and wet pavement will be the only thing I smell. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A faint breath of wind stole across the fields and a blackbird began to sing from somewhere beyond the elms. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faster than before he followed, but the shadow grew ever fainter to his eyes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

As I lay there shivering and sweating I heard the faint slapping of his bare feet on the stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Three times he has Marie-Laure test it: she stands in the street and swings open the outer gate, and from deep inside the house come two faint rings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Marigold’s practicing oboe”—Cady flicked an elbow toward an upstairs window, from which faint, stilted notes of music had been puttering for the last several minutes—“but I don’t know about Zane and Will.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He left the pages on the desk under a glass paperweight; then opened the door in answer to a faint scratch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the faint light coming through the rain from the landing window, they saw a peacock drowned and draped over a bush. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

According to reports, Bell suffered from hypertension and had three fainting spells in the four months before his collapse. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

He arranged Donald’s funeral on the hottest day of the year; they thought she fainted from sadness when it was just the barbaric humidity. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He woke, not knowing where he had been or where he was or what was the faint grey light in the air about him, which was the light of dawn coming to the world. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to the front hall I have to choose between the thick orange trail leading down to the kitchen and the very faint trail leading straight to the front door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I faint at the sight of blood, I really do. Not exaggerating. Hey, can I ask you a question?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“TODD HEWITT!” we hear again, faint over the roar of the water but loud as the whole entire universe. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I hear some commotion in the background, some static, and then his faint voice along with Commander Jameson’s. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But the rain of generations had poured upon this painting until now there was only a faint feathery shadow of bamboos left, and the hills were almost wholly gone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I can hear her, a faint tapping, a faint shuffling on the muffling rug of the corridor, before her light knock comes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couch cover wasn’t an easy thing to whip up, but sometimes the glamorganizing way of life wasn’t for the faint of heart. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Usually it was painful and obvious when a hollow was nearby, but in a giant space like this—among hundreds of people—my warning might only be a whisper, the faintest twinge, easy to miss. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His mouth began to give off a faint froth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sister peered at him with the same expression of faint distaste she had worn since the day he was bom. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s time for you to go rest. After you fainting and all.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My lip had pretty much healed by then—there was just a faint, kind of purplish line where the split had been—but I pointed it out to him anyway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, okay? I sense...something. Drums, clapping, faint music...I can’t explain it, other than to say it’s like having a memory just out of reach.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If a mystic'd told me that one exact moment in one exact place can act as an antenna that picks up faint traces of lost people, I wouldn't've argued. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She felt a faint prickling on the back of her neck, as if she had been to that place before. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the light upon the pallet, half-expecting her to still be there; but there was only a pool of warm blood, a faint veil of vapor hovering in the air above it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The second reason that I think Phoebe nearly fainted dead away was that there was Mike Bickle, Phoebe’s potential lunatic, in her own living room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The difference between Bobby and Dickens’s good doctor was the voice: Manette’s was faint, “dreadful and pitiable”; Bobby’s was booming, ferocious and vengeful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had not the faintest idea where he was. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We each received a piece of licorice candy and a faint smile from the woman because we were successful. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then she fainted against the nearest guard, knocking him over. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a round silver medallion with a jewel in the center, and in the depths of it a faint light glimmered. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint smile touched his lips, and he nodded. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They walked more slowly, ears straining for the faintest sound. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Only after she genuinely faints during a session, rather than perfectly executing the choreographed dramatic swoon, does he relent to a respite at their home in New York. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then a faint greenish light began to glimmer out of the Glow-worm’s tail, and this gradually became stronger and stronger until it was anyway enough to see by. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a faint improvement over the first one, bare and exposed to the wind. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In the distance, he heard the faint sound of singing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The juice might have had oranges in it once, but only a faint citrus smell remained. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She clipped it fiercely—now wasn’t the time—but she could still feel the faint stone of guilt in her chest as she continued with the story. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone could pretend to faint in the road, then the person behind would trip, and in the confusion— no, he was too disciplined to fall for anything like that. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the stillness of the tree, wrapped in the faint smell of rot, Naomi and Wash held each other. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was still a faint smell of ham, but the boy missed the scent of sausage coming up to him as he stood warming himself. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard faint sounds, but could make nothing of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said if Malachy or I showed the slightest sign of a cough or the faintest rattle in the throat we were to be brought to him no matter what time of day or night. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But after another minute she felt a faint tugging in her bracelet, like a ghost pulling her forward. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought we’d lost the spider until Tyson heard a faint pinging sound. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I search for a pulse, even the faint beat of her heart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Steel ..whispered through wool and silk with a faint, soft sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I dabbed at my moist eyes, inhaling the faint scent of a greasy cheeseburger and fries. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Night falls and the anthem plays and there's no picture of Cato in the sky, only the faint moans coming through the metal beneath us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The silhouette of the bodyguard looked menacing, and Matt remembered he’d killed twenty children with a bomb intended for the English prime minister.The man seemed to soak up the faint starlight from the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a hush fell over the crowd, George heard a faint voice. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other stood by blinking the perspiration from his eyes, looking as though he might faint at any moment. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn could hear faint music drifting from the Great Hall, seeping out into the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Had it been "Dave”? or "Dad”? Just where the faint path from the House in the Woods meets the path to the lake, footsteps came pounding my way. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Hold!" he commanded, his voice as faint and rasping as the sound I had heard moments before—the sound of the trunk being forced open. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of the student teachers got faint, in fact. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Some of the things I see would of made me faint a year ago, but now I face them the way the nurses and doctors do. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single pedestrian wanders down the sidewalk, and a gardener is carefully trimming a nearby hedge—but aside from the faint clip-clip-clip sound of his shears, it’s quiet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were more screams, and Julius saw that several women in the crowd nearby were fainting. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I imagined Dad silently chanting “It’s all good” so he wouldn’t faint. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The faint, mad gleam of enthusiasm had come back into O’Brien’s face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But then I notice the faint sound of two voices at a table in a far corner, tucked behind a pair of bookshelves that make them almost impossible to see from the stairs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wake up at faint light, guilt heavy on my chest. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I held on to the idea that he had just fainted and would get up soon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A salty and crisp breeze was blowing when Emily stepped out of the van, carrying with it a faint chorus of brays and barks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The rain was only a faint sound on the roof, and the sound of the thunder was distant, and moving east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the faint glow from the security lights outside, I saw her tying her wrapper round her chest. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two dementors appeared in the doorway of the courtroom, their rotting, scabbed hands clutching the upper arms of a wizard who appeared to be fainting. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When the drafts were complete, there came a faint tone of excitement into their speech. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the grey line as it came dangling down, and he thought it had a faint silver sheen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Jackson and Pierrot were still looking toward their aunt who dismissed them now with a quizzical tilt of her head and a faint nod. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had fainted and they had brought him here. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t say no to a fainting couch. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Came a morning when—half in a doze, exhausted from lack of sleep—Herbie heard a curious thock-crunch sound, then a faint plop, followed by a nauseating scuffling noise. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as I drew closer, the faint strains of organ music caught my ears. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The music had gone out of Kino’s head, but now, thinly, slowly, the melody of the morning, the music of evil, of the enemy sounded, but it was faint and weak. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm felt a wave of hostility so intense, he almost fainted. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been about two hours and she hasn’t fainted and I haven’t gone numb. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound was the faintest of clinks, a scraping of steel over stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Salim was in a school blazer, with a sweatshirt underneath, and a faint line of a moustache over his lips. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I daydreamed about discovering the secret of the gene, but not once did I have the faintest trace of a respectable idea. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

At times I thought I saw tiny faint lights in the distance, but the waves had carried us too far to tell. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Too faint yet I dare not roll closer. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Amarante surveyed the damp earth, the glistening green bean plants, the faint yellow irrigation foam left around the stalks, the mud cracking softly in some freshly watered rows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he heard it again: a sound like faint drums in the wooded hills and mountain-steps. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sun sank below Ladle Hill and the autumn stars began to shine in the darkening east—Perseus and the Pleiades, Cassiopeia, faint Pisces and the great square of Pegasus. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was alarmed to hear how faint his voice was. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And that faint, uncertain jumping, just under her skin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he smiled a faint, wry, bitter smile. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the faint trickle of water and the sound of an eagle hunting high above the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She weaved a trifle, then fainted, collapsing to the floor. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She thought she saw a faint glimmer of white in the dark Wood, a glow of otherworldly light, like stardust caught behind glass. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the spider came any closer, her sweet stench alone would have been enough to make Annabeth faint. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere off in the desert behind Lita’s house, a coyote howls, calling for its friends.As if on cue, the chickens cluck, and one of her fainting goats bleats. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was obviously a far more egregious situation, but I could sense faint echoes of Baltimore and the Bronx in the story of these townships. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We ducked into the woods, following the faint path around the lake until we came to a dirt road. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Constance’s cheeks, normally a rosy red, had turned a faint shade of green. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were so tightly packed into that narrow courtyard that some children fainted from excessive heat and stuffiness. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It leaned down and breathed a faint yellow smoke over Hibiscus’s face. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then Pax caught the faintest stirring at the opening of the warren. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Evil dreams and evil waking were blended into a long tunnel of misery, with hope growing ever fainter behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A faint mist hugs the air, giving everything a surreal haze. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Chaol glanced at her ring, and she hid her smile as a faint line of color crept into his cheeks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She was fearful of the smallest of creatures—a mouse, scurrying across the floor of Alyss hut, almost caused her to faint—and fascinated in a worried sort of way with birds. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what time it was, but I could see a faint light underneath her door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Through the wall came the faint strains of a song. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had lain absolutely motionless, with no flicker of life except the faintest of breathing, for more than thirty-two hours. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was a youth of sixteen years, whip-thin, fearless, quick to laugh, with the faint shadow of his first mustachio on his upper lip. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I fainted and awoke many times, and each time I opened my eyes, it seemed as if the voices of those who carried me were fading into the distance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The cloudy yellow sandstone of Enchanted Mesa was still smoky blue before dawn, and only a faint hint of yellow light touched the highest point of the mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt faint again now but he held on the great fish all the strain that he could. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close to fainting, I leaned against the wall and stared at my reflection in the bathroom mirror. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lying in the darkness, I could hear the faint voices in the bathroom. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early that afternoon, Roza tells me a rumor about a faint ship on the horizon behind us. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But it was a nicer sound than that, a more musical tone: only so faint that you could hardly hear it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In a faint voice, he said, “Take it out of me.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it was: a faint whisper of soreness. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He arrived home with bone jutting out of his wrist, and I screamed and nearly fainted at the sight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was still night, but the first red glow of dawn was rising in a faint crescent over the pine woods. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It gets very airless in there,” said the policeman, “there’s been complaints about it often, but nothing’s ever done. We’ve had ladies fainting in there before.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her smell, the smell of his girls, was faint now, replaced by rain and the beginnings of mildew. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I slide my laptop off my crossed legs and get up from my bed, swaying to the side, feeling really faint. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The faint torchlight provided by the bats illuminated only a few yards. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The faint green smell in the air felt like an embrace. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

After that I must have fainted, or fallen into a trance, because when I opened my eyes again, Ares was gone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later I heard a faint, momentary whine, scarcely louder than a mosquito. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Uncle Edisto’s funeral, Peach had fainted into the punch bowl, and that was just for starters. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra was afraid that the Lady Salmakia was dying: she hadn’t uttered a word for several minutes, and she lay faint and limp in Lyra’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He heard them cross the pavement, heard the faint rattle as the gate was opened, a tiny click as it closed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She thought it over for a minute or two as she walked and had just decided to ask him, when to her surprise she saw ahead of her a faint glow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was shaking so hard, he might have thought I was going to faint. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A new odor, faint but menacing, hung in the air. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I heard something—a whisper, or faint music, maybe even a drumbeat—and it sounded so familiar. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For a moment there I could have sworn he didn’t have the faintest idea what I was talking about. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes were sad, like he felt sorry for Ophie, but his outline was too faint for her to pick out what color it might be. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Phil glances away, and a faint red appears on his cheeks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Then slowly on the surface, where the wizard’s hands had passed, faint lines appeared, like slender veins of silver running in the stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Coram noticed that his bony face was actually showing a faint blush. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He has a faint goatee trying hard to express itself, but it’s six months short of becoming a reality. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Why, I know that, she thought, listening, smiling, to the faint melody; we used to play that game; I remember that. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children; in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The creatures shuffled off, their voices getting fainter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Now I notice that he’s wearing contacts, too—with mine on, I can see a faint, glittering sheet of colors against his pupils. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“She wants to go now,” he said in a faint, strange voice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Suppose he missed the lights, suppose— Toward morning there was faint color in the sky, not really daylight, a lifting of the darkness. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hobo could crawl up her steps and faint from hunger and she wouldn’t give him a dime. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep trying to grasp at it, to hold on to it, but the harder I struggle, the fainter and the further away it gets. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the sound of the jingling bells began to grow faint. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now Coraline saw, or imagined she saw, three shapes, each as faint and pale as the moon in the daytime sky. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I could hear the faint thud as the bow hit the pilings. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Out of the surrounding silence and darkness came the quiet ringing of a distant church bell, thin, faint, but clear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The light of her chambers appeared, and as it neared, she heard a faint voice cry from behind her, almost in sudden realization and anger. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Riptide grew into a three-foot-long bronze sword, its blade glowing with a faint golden light Tammi’s smile turned to a sneer. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The apparition chuckled, the sound like wind through the leaves, faint and wispy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lying beside his sleeping brother, he’d listen to the broad, low sound: faint, then rising, faint again, then a high, beckoning whistle, then gone. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

People moved like blue vapor lights on the cobbled avenues, and there were faint murmurs of sound, and odd animals scurrying across the gray-red sands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he had the faintest idea he’d just been insulted. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

As they passed over it, Minli saw the smooth water wave with gentle ripples and heard what sounded like faint drumming. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

After a while they came fainter and there was a longer time between each one. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day while Mollie fanned her papa, she fainted from the heat. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thus he sat by her many hours of the day, and they did not talk much for she was faint, and besides there had never been talk between them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Thick white smoke from the bleaching palm oil filled the kitchen, and in the stuffy mix of the fumes and heat and flies, I felt faint. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only two things out of the ordinary are the faint shadows under her eyes, and the unusual quiet that has descended over her lunch table. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have wasted time fainting, just gotten busy arranging the exorcism. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I fainted after a time,” said the young man. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I’m concentrating I notice a faint orange trail leading off the bed and out my door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As he fainted, the clang of police bells filled the air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She pulled aside Verin’s arm, revealing faint lines in the stone beneath. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For a while Tyrion could still hear Benerro’s voice growing fainter at their back and the roars his words provoked, sudden as thunder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he’d hunt her down tonight, or perhaps not—she hadn’t the faintest idea. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A faint smoke curled above it, as if fire smouldered in the hill beneath. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A few female comrades felt faint, but no one wanted to leave. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, Minli heard a faint murmuring sound that she had never heard before, like a song chanted from the clouds. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mark can see the faint shadow of two people behind the darkened window now, and they both appear to be male. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The chaplain was acutely conscious of the faint noise his footsteps made as he approached. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The faint ache in her lower jaw, the pressure of his widespread hands on her head, excited her, and afterward she said, “Goodness, Ugwu must have seen us.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were beginning their unprofessional petition, when the faint bugle sounded from beyond the market. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied me in the mirror now that he had me covered with the striped neckcloth, and I saw a frown of faint recognition. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was empty and dark, save for a faint blue hazy light that seeped through a window from the winter sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Justin led Mrs. Frisby in another direction, down a corridor to their left, and again she had the impression of a faint, cool breeze against her face. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked once more at the faint line of the hills. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this very reason, I was not one bit sad to say goodbye to our current apartment with its orangish carpet, watermarked ceiling, and faint smells left by previous owners. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Stupid, but fine. Did I honestly faint?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I turned in my seat to put the notebook in my hip pocket, I detected the faintest smile at the corners of her mouth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think about it,” he says, a faint smile curling his lips. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Night was fading, and faint gauze ribbons of light stretched through the window toward them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Really, what has got into you all today?” said Professor McGonagall, turning back into herself with a faint pop, and staring around at them all. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Took so much of me, I fainted before I could fill my belly. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The robotic voice inside my head repeats the words, but this time fainter like a distant echo. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The last thing Toby heard was the faint sound of the bell ringing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the sun fell behind the mountains, I felt it as a faint coolness on my face. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The bronze blade glowed with a faint light. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

When I knelt by him he struggled to get away from me, and the effort being too much for him, fainted. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard you playing...so faint. I tried to listen...” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He heard a faint scratching, and his hand flew to his sword. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As he approached his tent back in Pianosa, a figure reared up in the darkness right beside the path, and he fainted. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She would have none of them; the hope that her husband would return was faint, but it never died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That David guy finishes his song and everyone applauds, and it’s not some faint applause either; you would think there’s a rock legend performing up there. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a faint, thin smile, little more than a lift at the corners of his mouth, while his eyes scanned the church as if he had entirely forgotten Fenoglio. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He has a summer job, with the Works Department, filling in potholes in the roads, tarring over the cracks made by frost heave; he does have a faint tarry smell about him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Alfred Lanning viewed the proceedings with faint scorn—his usual reaction to the doings of the vastly better-paid business and sales divisions. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He still had faint scars crisscrossing his legs from all his lashings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn stumbled back against the wall, so relieved she nearly fainted. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was about to give up my hunt until morning when I heard a faint sound, something akin to church bells beckoning in the distance. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been hearing music ever since I arrived. Drums. Clapping. Even some singing, but it’s real faint and...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She heard a faint shuffling noise and some scratches. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But the helicopter’s sound grew fainter, and then it faded away completely. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m always convinced I’m going to faint when my stomach starts to grumble. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A faint path led off to the east. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding the lantern-glass close to Matthias’s nose and mouth, the Abbot was rewarded by the sight of the faint mist that appeared on it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The smell’s very faint but still laces the air. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then a faint sound comes from my earpiece. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Only a faint scent of fried catfish lingered on the night air. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was just saying hello to the four men sitting there when he stopped and noticed a faint smell of gun fumes on the air. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t the faintest clue what her life was like, how she became an assassin, how she learned to play the pianoforte...It was all a mystery. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The man gave Luke the faintest of smiles, one that contained no happiness. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s too early—maybe thirty minutes until the faintest daylight shines. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They looked at Nhamo, who gazed back at them full of remorse and sorrow, but also with the faintest beginning of hope. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the time comes to punish, we shall strike such a blow as’ll make their hearts faint and fearful. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The ammonia smell of bone-tar wafted up from the grate, faint but persistent. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the darkness, Werner thinks the cellar may have its own faint light, perhaps emanating from the rubble, the space going a bit redder as the August day above them progresses toward dusk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped then, because Dr. Malone looked as if she was about to faint. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes linger on the faint scars of his knuckles. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Despite the smoke, seeing faint glimmers of sunlight, I’m happy. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s silhouette—still crawling just ahead of her—was growing fainter, harder to discern amid the smoke and bits of tent falling in around them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The faint sound of footsteps on the stairs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He slipped the envelope from his jacket pocket, reached in, pulled out the papers, and tilted them toward the faint light coming through the store window. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound was a faint soft sobbing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No cars driving past, no children shouting, only a very faint siren in the distance. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a rumor, faint and stale. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take two,” she said, and a faint, dazzly feeling came over her at the thought of what she was doing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The music is faint but I know the words by heart. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the yard the woman had stopped singing, but the faint shouts of children floated in from the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

So far, nobody has the faintest idea who the swastika guy—or swastika girl—might be. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Note the faint grid lines that would help her copy a master artist’s drawing in order to learn proper placement and proportion of objects on the page. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The first faint light hit the silver of the hatchet and it flashed a brilliant gold in the light Like fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never knelt down and prayed—you fainted clean away,” said the old man’s woodpecker dæmon from the workbench. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

What if he’s stuck or trapped somewhere, and faints under the mighty sun? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Instead a faint sigh escapes me, and heat rushes into my cheeks, embarrassment. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The music was still faint, but now I was able to make out some lyrics: My only love, We’ll never see yesterday again. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Voice on the earth was now louder and more triumphant; but the voices in the sky, after singing loudly with it for a time, began to get fainter. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

This had to be done in total darkness, because the glow would be faint. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father left, trailing the faint, unfamiliar, prosperous aroma of his cigar. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prohibition has been drilled into children for so long that they have made it into a jump-rope rhyme: Don’t say ain’t or your mother will faint. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He doesn't know me really, but there's a faint recognition there. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I could hear the faint rhythmic beating in the background. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The little bell tinkled once, faint and clear and invisible. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was filled with the whispers and echoes of ancient spirits, and on the rock wall I could see a faint carving of my brother Hatun’s face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Catelyn was content to wait, to listen to the whispers in the woods and the faint music of the brook, to feel the warm wind in her hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the faintest hint of light was already appearing from the opening crack of the rotating landing pad, and Mark spotted his flashlight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Out here the roar is fainter, barely a murmur. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t go back to the hospital the next day, but on that same day, I fainted from a migraine while I was sitting on the verandah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, he begins mumbling, but it’s not words, it’s just guttural sounds, faint clicks and hisses. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They sat on the bare stone in a circle, all of them cloaked and hooded, rough still shapes like a circle of dolmens in the faint glow of the fire yards away. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood on deck, waiting, ready to climb into the LST, I got my first look at Iwo Jima appearing in the faint light before dawn. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just imagine. I don’t wonder the varmint fainted.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was considerable giggling, and when the teacher spelled blood— “b-l-O-O-d”—one girl fainted. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pull his hand up and lean my cheek against the back of it, taking in the faint scent of cinnamon and dill from the breads he must have baked today. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then Miss Wren said, “No, this can’t be,” and Althea stumbled, faint, letting the sheet drop. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A faint breeze rusded the magnolia tree and azaleas in the backyard, and even though the sun had not yet set, outside was cooler than Gramma’s kitchen. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the faint grating of the mercenary’s finger bones grinding against the bare edges of the blade. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her hands were brown, darker than mine, and covered in faint wrinkles that made them look like paper bags someone had balled up and then tried to smooth out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t the faintest idea how the night sky might serve as a road map. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the air was warmish in spite of the fog, with the faint tang of perfume and cologne as college students made their way off campus to various events. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Several times, over the stir of the wind, I thought I heard a faint meow, but I couldn’t locate the direction. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally was able to speak, though my voice was faint. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing, a ghost-light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew it was sharper than any razor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

S/he experiences hallucinations, vomiting, chronic migraines, memory loss, and/or fainting spells. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was made of finely checkered gray-and-blue wool, with a striped lining and horn buttons, and carried in its weave the faint smell of limes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A faint murmur from the other end of the line. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She felt faint—surely this could not be real. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the faint odor of a faraway skunk drifted into the kitchen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Jake Mason, the hastily appointed new counselor from Hephaestus, managed a faint smile. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When they were done, there was no sound but the faint crackle of the flames and a distant sigh of wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So it went on, almost as unceasing as the waterfall, only interrupted by a faint noise of slavering and gurgling. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then he saw that in the darkness of the burrow the stranger’s ears were shining with a faint silver light. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room they entered was big, square, well lit, and had a faint musty smell. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the tracks of the truck through the wet ash, faint and washed out, but there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The radio is all static—like the sound of the crunching metal of a car, the faint, blurry voice on the airwaves her own, trapped inside a wreck, calling for help. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In places it was now faint and overgrown, or choked with fallen stones and trees; but at one time it seemed to have been much used. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sky was now tinged with the faintest trace of pink. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As the sounds of the chase grew fainter, Jemmy crawled out of the hollow root. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

At first it had been completely dark inside but now my eyes had adjusted I was aware of a faint, pinkish light, moonlight, just enough to see by, glowing through the translucent walls. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For just as Pinmei swallowed her second rice ball, there was a faint rumble in the distance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A faint smile twitched the comers of O’Brien’s mouth as he looked down at him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We entered a hallway where a bare dim bulb shed faint blue light against green walls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the sea bottom the wind stirred along faint vapors, and from the mountains great stone visages looked upon the silvery rocket and the small fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cut across the fields from there, to a little house at the end of a faint lane. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He thinks he’s so scared he almost fainted in front of all those people,” Shorty said with a wide grin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mingled relief and horror, few of them noticed the faint wail that came from Judith, or saw her waver and fall. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His face was pallid, with a faint sheen of sweat. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, if Mother ever came through the door to find a strange parrot whooshing about the apartment, she would faint away. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She takes two fingers’ full of it at a time, and massages my chest until I am faint. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Roz stood in the rain, staring down at those poor, lifeless geese, her sensitive ears detected a faint peeping sound coming from somewhere nearby. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Others could hear it, too, faint but distinct: “Help!...Help!” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The sky was lighter already; there was a faint fresh stir in the air. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A salty and crisp breeze was blowing when Emily stepped out of the van, carrying with it a faint chorus of brays and barks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This time, I got a new kind of twinge in my gut, ever so faint, as if a hollow had been here and gone, and I was sensing its residue. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some faint, still coherent voice inside her intoned that this was already feeling a lot like a date and absolutely nothing like a non-date. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I turned just in time to see him putting his hand into his pocket, and I heard the faint clink of coins. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I have never seen him. Others have sought him and failed. We should have only faint hope. But that is better than none at all.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The house stood above us, rickety, a faint light at the windows. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked, and saw four, faint matching prints. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Still, he kept his door cracked on the faint hope that she’d want to bridge the distance. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We are accustomed to a good deal in the billets, but this makes us feel faint. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the Black Jackets laughed at her words, and a faint smile even flitted over Meggie's face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Immediately he can smell it: the perfume is so sweet, so outrageously sweet, that he nearly faints. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As usual, the Second had arrived before him, and the faint scent of metal still lingered in the air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The faint pop of his knuckle-cracking is all I hear apart from my own breaths, which grow faster by the second. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They groped their way down a long flight of steps, and then looked back; but they could see nothing, except high above them the faint glimmer of the wizard’s staff. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One of Ethel’s neighbors told her about it in the market and Ethel fainted dead away, pitching into a row of preserves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But she made a point of staring back at me blankly, like she didn’t have the faintest what I was talking about. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he entered the auditorium he heard faint crying. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had a faint hope that the Captain, not being an islander, would take the heat as an excuse to slow down a bit. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes a sip of tea and winces, detecting a faint film of dishwashing liquid on this section of the rim, chiding herself for being careless about rinsing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Still--I was married in the middle of June," Daisy remembered, "Louisville in June! Somebody fainted. Who was it fainted, Tom?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could almost touch the heat she gave off, the faint sweaty smell of her anger. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Given his preferences, I believe he'd stay in the forest until you and the queen both die of old age," Lord Petyr replied with a faint smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’d heard the story of Dad fainting at the doctor’s office when he was a teenager, probably more times than he’d actually fainted. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her husband managed to catch her before she fell to the floor in a dead faint. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old knight looked at her son with a faint flicker of amusement in his watery grey eyes, though his gelding whickered uneasily and sidled away from the direwolf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But he lay there in the dark and listened to voices in the kitchen, voices of Josiah and Auntie and the faint voice of old Grandma. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she was going to faint and fall over. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A reporter wrote, “Men knocked each other down as they rushed onward. Women shrieked and fell, fainting, only to be trampled and perhaps killed.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Paul Marshall shook her hand and made a faint bow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The faint sound of music drifted through his shuttered window. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When he turned it on, the usual faint smell of negative ions surged from the power supply; he breathed in eagerly, already buoyed up. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was only the faintest indication of a trail here; a cracked twig and what might be the impression of one side of a hoof. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A faint rustling could be heard coming from the kindling box. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drumbeat grew louder, and the sound of flapping wings floated past my ear on a faint breeze. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even though I was both weary and faint, I still had a horse to turn out to pasture and morning chores to do. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She hadn't the faintest idea what this thing was. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her squirrel dæmon had fainted on her breast. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I felt so faint with hunger that it was an effort just to reread the pages while I waited for the boys’ return. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, take care of yourself out there in Denver,” Luke called, his voice getting fainter. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The wind brought the faintest whiff of a man-smell he did not know. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gwydion pointed to a faint circle of trampled grass. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Everything was eerily quiet except for the faint music from the carousel. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mami almost fainted with joy when the office called to tell us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He remembers trying to shout back, unsuccessfully, his mouth emitting nothing but the faintest rasp. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As if he were trying to catch a faint strain of music wafting gently on a breeze. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Through the bedroom is a gray sitting room she treats as a closet, her shoes and handbags and clothes scattered across the floor, piled on a fainting couch, spilling over the backs of chairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Con helped Shae climb back onto her own mare; she stubbornly refused to faint and instead had to grit her teeth over every bump in the road. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Inside the manor house there was always a faint smell from the oil lamps that were lit every evening—for there was no electricity. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A faint but distinct voice rose from the tree. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

A Sunday school verse came back to me: They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

No one has the faintest idea how or why Yellowstone’s ended up beneath a continental plate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Strange thing,” he said, “I must have fainted—in the post office. I never faint. Mr. Pioda helped me up. Just for a second it was, I guess. I never faint.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he ran the cries came louder, but fainter now and desperately the horn was blowing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But even at this faint reminder of her presence Gollum scowled and flinched. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My mom’s mouth hangs agape, but then curves into a faint smile. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My mother gives a faint shriek and Prim buries her face in her hands, but I feel more like the people I see in the crowd on television. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was faint moonlight coming in through the landing window and it illuminated the hall below. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

With the door closed, I notice the faint scent of bleach and artificial lemon in the air. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A stronger gust blew, carrying with it a faint roar. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Yet a faint air of dis- reputability always clung to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The lamps in the Commandant’s study are lit, and voices drift out her open window, too faint to hear. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Depending on the wind, a faint echo of massive artillery could be heard occasionally across the mountains near Sarajevo seventy miles to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A faint carving of the Henka Games logo covers one of the white walls. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I peel open the top, and the faint whiff of lilac escapes from the airtight bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s fainted,” said Hermione, who was also rather pale; she no longer looked like Mafalda, though her hair was still gray in places. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had a new-book smell with the faintest hint of lemons. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He fainted even before the man touched him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The screen door banged behind them as they went in, and their laughter grew faint. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was cracked and weather-worn, and the faint runes upon its side could not be read. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right, Director,” he said in a tone of faint derision, “I won’t corrupt them.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In answer, a shadow passed over Kamau’s expression, visible even in the faint light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman fainted, and before people around her could help her get up, a soldier rushed over and hit her hard with his gun. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while I look back, and each time the lighthouse beacon gets smaller and fainter. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He clapped his hands behind his head and looked up at the faint stars through the tree branches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last time he looked at the clock it was quarter to four, and the faintest tinge of pink was brushing the window. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dwarf,” said Griff, “I warned you—” A wail came shivering through the fog, faint and high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A faintness of the body is my familiar, but not the sudden, evil faint of a body infected by horrible surprise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it rose, he began to feel ill and nearly fainted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It moved in patches across the village square, not thick anymore, sometimes just faint ripples like fog. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grows larger as it comes closer, shining against the side of Four’s face, creating a shadow in the faint hollow beneath his cheekbone. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Jinny put the letter back in the envelope and slipped it under her makeshift bed before she settled down with a faint groan. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now one clock was set in motion, a faint ticking. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some antisuffrage newspapers actually warned that many women, when faced with making a voting decision, would actually faint in the voting booth. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There was about her a faint air of hostility, as if in some way she held us responsible for his defection. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curse must have known I was trying to obey, because my complaints hadn’t started; I wasn’t dizzy or faint or in pain, but I was weeping. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The faint vibration has already been drowned by the faraway whine. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands are stamped with faint liver spots. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waits until he can hear her faint snores before creeping to the cab of the RV and easing into the driver’s seat. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“No — that wasn’t the same kind of fainting at all. I don’t know what happened.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the faint light of the sick bay, the revolver seemed to glow. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The breath coming out of the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the furthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fibre of hair. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s poor Miss Annie next door. This morning she took a little fainting spell in the alley. Nerves, babe. She says you woke her up this morning playing on your banjo.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one of those idiots had the faintest idea that Cap’s donation came straight out of the budget for the Halloween dance. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

What struck me most about their faces was that I couldn’t see their eyes, just a faint glimmer in a nest of wrinkles. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He did manage to find a clutch of hard green bananas growing along the road, but by midday, his hunger hurt so bad he thought he would faint from it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Asta, on his shoulder as a lemur, nearly fainted; he caught her and held her close. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a faint note of pride in his voice that Harry had rarely heard there before. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My head felt so light, I thought I might faint. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That was quite the performance you gave earlier. I particularly enjoyed the fainting. I’m sure the theater lost a fine actor when you chose to devote yourself instead to murder and cannibalism.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This place—the tree with its peeling white bark, the walls, the field below scented with wild onions and timothy grass and the faintest odor of tar—he recognized them all. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sheer scope and number of tattoos and piercings would have Mamma fainting. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

By then the last radio station, a very faint one that I could hear only at night, had stopped broadcasting. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Later, Obinze would ask, half seriously, if Ifemelu thought his mother’s fainting had been deliberate, a plot to keep him close. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then in a shift in the wind he heard a distant faint patter. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She glanced nervously at the house and almost fainted. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one will know that the counter on which he slices the evening’s baguette only recently supported a fainting woman—and decide to reward her with a medal for bravery. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was listening to a recording of her, with a faint static humming in the background. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She unfolds it to reveal a child’s careful cursive in faint pencil, practicing the same sentence over and over again: Upright and do right make all right. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Around us were cream-puff clouds, their edges outlined by the faint glow of a crescent moon.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The o in Cocina was bright orange while the rest of the letters were outlined in green and black, and behind the letters was the faint shape of an island. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I heard you land with a faint thump. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At the same time there rose to his nostrils again her whisky-laden breath, and beneath this, faint, intimate, the odor of her body. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He spotted a faint path winding past a clump of violets and curving beyond a funny-looking bush. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The blue light casts shadows into the faint hollows beneath Edward’s cheekbones. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And after a while he saw at the faint outermost edge of the light a shadow that came towards him over the sand. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It smells like it does at night, but fainter, of caramel and popcorn and smoke from the bonfire. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The low hum and faint beeps of controls keep a steady rhythm. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Through the hall of the Buchanans' house blew a faint wind, carrying the sound of the telephone bell out to Gatsby and me as we waited at the door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A very faint whimpering or squeaking, which seemed unconscious, came out of him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On past the dim glimpse of land he sailed, tacking more westerly now, in a faint dank drizzle that over land might be a light snow. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see anything strange about it, but Rachel showed me where to look, and I recognized the faint blue symbol etched in the metal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In spite of its dubious appearance it sent a faint curl of steam into the frosty air, and Kit forced herself to take a few spoonfuls while the woman stood watching, hands on her hips. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The whale’s teeth pressed down on the sphere, causing faint lines to spider across it, but the protective device held, and finally the jaws relaxed. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sound of air being sucked upward through the furnace mingled in Bigger’s ears with the faint whine of the wind outside in the night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a while I deciphered the faint outlines of an unfamiliar window. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Môle, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tune was wrong, the words too faint to hear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But then, with a very faint pop, a slim, hooded figure appeared out of thin air on the edge of the river. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ranyinudo was looking at the photograph on her phone with a faint, fond smile. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now there are only faint purple-blue marks beneath my eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smells like his room used to when he lived at home, a faint vinegary reek that would cause Mom to break out the Febreze on a regular basis. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She has the kind of mouth that always rests in a faint smile, and she smells a little like French toast. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It seems odd that this boy who held my hand in the tent, stroked my forehead and caught me when I fainted will not shake it now. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I was sore wounded,” said Sir Bliant, discovering a formula, “and I felt myself faint” “Quite.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment, I was going to faint dead away. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Christ himself, as a matter of fact, says, ‘Men ought always to pray and not to faint.’ Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I thought I would faint, and crouched back in a heap on the thwart. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Hoster lay on his back, mouth open, his breath a faint whistling sigh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“See you in six million years,” said Officer Shrift, and the sound of his footsteps grew fainter and fainter until it wasn’t heard at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now and again, she heard the chink of spears, the faint metallic slither of chain mail, but even those sounds were muffled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I put my face against the soft hair at the back of her neck and breathe her in, baby powder and child’s washed flesh and shampoo, with an undertone, the faint scent of urine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, it says right here, ‘When I saw those toenails....I nearly fainted. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I gasp, waiting for the heat, but there is only a faint tickling sensation. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s been eating more than his share of the stores and lying idle while we sweat and faint in the heat,” Nathaniel complains. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the crowd below, several dozen spectators fainted from the excitement. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a faint, metallic scent in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her lips moved again, forming her last word to me, a whisper almost too faint to hear. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaze through one of those gaps at a lightbulb and you’ll see faint dark lines, especially near the top and bottom of the gap. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voices were fainter as the light dwindled ahead of her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was only a few miles to where the faint line of smoke rose from the forest, but we made bad time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Politics and elections were high-stakes fights, not for the faint of heart. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She felt herself fading into a faint, but she felt victorious. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian waited until the last faint bark of the motor had died away in the distance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A rainbow one morning made her almost faint with delight and surprise. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Those with a faint yellow X, or an orange or red one, were forced to fight through the mud with their hands and feet in metal cuffs, a long chain connecting them in a line. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I heard a faint rush of air as the door opened, and I turned to see a young woman standing in the doorway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wall to wall, it was only seven feet long, and there was always a faint smell of mildew in its air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Computer failures like the one that struck the Yorktown are just a faint shadow of the power of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my goodness,” said Mother, holding her hand to her heart, like women do in the movies when they are about to faint. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I become stronger, pacing myself and using the sangsues to keep from fainting. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She had left the bedroom door open, trying to encourage a faint breeze through the stuffy room while she washed out her stockings and underwear in the basin. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A faint wind blew through the holdfast gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Below it the trees were moving in impossible directions, shaking back and forth, then swaying like fainting giants, then popping out of sight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But on the third night, just as the moon began to slip down in the sky, Dragon saw a faint figure on the bridge. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Primogeniture is also the clean slate of the oldest making the past out of nothing but faint whispers, presences, and tones. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Slowly, majestically, with a faint humming of machinery, the Conveyors moved forward, thirty-three centimetres an hour. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare longingly at the black of where the bottom should be but isn’t, and then I stare up again at the light, very faint but still there, waiting with Violet, over my head. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It moved again, and I heard a faint buzzing sound. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I blink at the fluorescent lights in the room; a faint buzz emanates from them and reminds me of the lights in my high school library. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I thought she was dead, but when I stared hard at her chest, I saw a faint rise and fall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Moving fast, like the sun is chasing my heels, I'm running down this long faint shadow of me that stretches out ahead, you can't ever catch up with it. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I believe then that some faint idea of the truth began to force itself into his consciousness for he went very white and put the paper down on the table. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Salva could hear the noise of the rest of the group ahead of them, a few faint voices, birds calling somewhere in the trees.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no house visible, only the boldly silhouetted rock with its faint resemblance to a giant head. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The bodyguard’s voice was tinny and faint until Felicia increased the volume. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint, gray light seeped into the room, as if the moon was escaping from the clouds. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Underfoot the healthy green turf was brushed with dew, and ahead of us we could see a faint green haze hanging above the grass, shot through with the twilight sun. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the chunks of white meat chicken had only a faint chicken taste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I could smell a faint odour of something medical on him which I couldn’t identify. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faint tail of knighthood straggled in by twos and threes, then one at a time, then with intervals of days between the solitary riders. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her head gave a brief, faint throb of pain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I notice a faint smell, too, like some sort of cleaner. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

By the end of it, he had nearly fainted, and Kaede wished she had thought to bring Shae’s flask with them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had a taste for absinthe, too, and exuded a faint licorice smell. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo was aware of how dim the room was then with no light except the faint twilight still coming in the windows. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now are you willing to concede that there is some faint connection, not necessarily between two eccentrics, but with a—um—general turn of mind that exists in some quarters across the water?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ashes, Bran thought, old and faint, but ashes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Red silk, red eyes, the ruby red at her throat, red lips curled in a faint smile as she put her hand atop his own, around the cup. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hear the faint click and zoom of the cameras beyond the fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She heard faint noises, like some night creature scurrying. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with her shouting now, I could hear the thin faint cries of a baby. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A faint light shone under the door when two of the younger Keepers arrived to fetch Matt and Chacho. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt faint, dizzy, sick, disgusted, limp with shock. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was imagining it, maybe not, but he thought a faint whispering was coming from the books, as though they knew someone was there who shouldn’t be. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Her arm was dead, black from the tourniquet down with a faint scent of rot, but she seemed the most peaceful yet. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The daemon’s voice was fainter, and a groan came from the wounded man. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint malicious pleasure in his voice. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I put my ear to his front door and heard faint sounds coming from inside. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I laid down, whilst I waited his leisure to attend to me, for I felt faint and a little sick. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He just felt a faint slackening of the pressure of the line and he commenced to pull on it gently with his right hand. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate to be the bearer of bad news,” I said, pointing off to a faint smudge of smoke rising from the trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s only a faint insect click here and there. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He paused, and when Rishi muttered a faint “thanks,” he powered forward. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to be seen, although the tall grass moved and there was a faint sound, rather like that which a creature makes when it scurries through a bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When Miep told him, he was so astonished he nearly fainted. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

While I patched the inner tube, Miss Love leaned against the hood of the car, looking like she might faint. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Then Judge Quinzy, who had returned to the party with the faintest dusting of snowflakes on his jet-black hair, turned to the Incorrigibles. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He had discovered, after his own contact with the anchor, that the faint dirty tinge did not wash off, even with soap and water. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A faint gray haze hung in the east. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He turns off the light, and from the hall to the adjoining teen stasis room, a faint green light glows on the floor. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He raised one eyebrow, and the faint trace of a smile lightened his face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She could make out a faint accent now. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to faint today,” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She felt the faintest dip in the aircraft’s balance as the weight shifted. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the past when he walked out like that and sat looking over the country lying in just the faintest visible shape where the lost moon tracked the caustic waste he’d sometimes see a light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wall of a tent leans up over my face, not visible but audible, a slanting plane of faint sound: the susurrus of blown snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s faint here at the house, but in the settlement, you can’t hear yourself think.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A hiker had fainted or fallen or some such thing, which had caused several fender benders, backing up traffic for miles. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Three times he whistled; and then faint and far off it seemed to them that they heard the whinny of a horse borne up from the plains upon the eastern wind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Well, I didn’t faint or throw up or run out screaming. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A faint smile showed itself on her stricken face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was the faintest trace of longing in his voice as he looked at the Elder Wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My ears rang with faint noises I couldn’t place—crackling and hissing, the groan of wood, indistinct voices that sounded like screaming but were so far away they might as well have been whispers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His skin covered in what looked like faint purple scales. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When it was a bit lighter he rose and walked out and cut a perimeter about their siwash camp looking for sign but other than their own faint track through the ash he saw nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It had a new-book smell with the faintest hint of lemons. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A faint light grew in the hall again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Long after dark Kit heard her whisper outside the shed wall, so timid and faint that at first she thought she must have imagined it. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Six more big strong men fainted when they saw him. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The glowing embers cast faint shadows into the surrounding night, and under the trees, a large set of eyes reflected the light, staring patiently out of the darkness. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Because the faint light of the ship was behind him, his face was hidden in shadow, but there was something sinister about it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A single line of faint words, as if written with shadows, was scrawled upon the page in a language Minli had never seen. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They sailed ahead and by three o’clock could make out the faint patches of green tussock grass that grew among the snowy rocks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon when the boat’s outline disappeared and the faint moaning of the outboard melted into the quiet. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I knew this was just a faint taste of the goodbyes I would have to survive in the next hour, and the thought made the tears begin to spill. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister's eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Clouds of flies drifted over us, their buzzing a faint background droning. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Eva’s Dream” is my best fairy tale, and the odd thing is that I don’t have the faintest idea where it came from. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The whole place carries the smell of unwashed bodies and tobacco smoke with a faint air of decay. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She’d gone pale, though she couldn’t know that, but she did know that she felt faint. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see something in front of me—my own faint reflection. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The forest was full of shapes and shadows and only barely could he see the faint footprints on the ground — it was like searching for a wrinkle in a flower petal. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The whiz of the arrow’s flight filled the stone hallway before the faint, dull thud of impact. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He saw a faint sweep of white thigh. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Asha could see the beacon fire burning atop the watchtower, a faint orange glow floating in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the furnace he saw the coal beginning to smoke; there were faint wisps of white smoke at first, then the smoke drew dark, bulging out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But as time passed, the magic faded, leaving behind only a faint memory of its power. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I think it’s a part of the faint pattern on the knife, but these marks are on top of the blood. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It enters a chestnut effortlessly, devours the cambium cells, and positions itself for attack on the next tree before the tree has the faintest idea, chemically speaking, what hit it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of nausea swept over me as it had that day I fainted in the field. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked at him, and my gaze was met by an amazingly blue pair of eyes against cinnamon skin and a faint smile tickling white teeth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I understood little of her stories because her voice was faint and she froze in fear if I asked her to repeat anything. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

So with faint cries the shades trailed after Hermes, pure Deliverer. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights of Regalia had faded away, and he had to squint to read by the faint torchlight. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I hear a click, see a faint light scan across my skin, and the white page disappears. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, almost no one in the audience had the faintest idea what he was talking about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet Frodo began to hear, or to imagine that he heard, something else: like the faint fall of soft bare feet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of pine wax, fresh paint, and cigar smoke, and only when we passed the paddock did I catch the faintest whiff of horseflesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The look of determination on his face has dissolved into a faint grin of acceptance. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was the seventh hit that caused him to faint from the pain. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I am quite content with the way you treated me, sir,” she said, with the faintest possible stress on the you. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She didn’t notice the faint furrow of worry that this piece of information produced on the Inspector’s brow. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the faint light of the Careers' torches, I inch back down to my fork to find the best surprise I've ever had. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man’s horrible face. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m going to faint,” he whispered to the old sheep, who was watching. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Uneasily, I remembered the faint sounds behind the parlor’s closed door and the terror I’d felt as I ran through the dark cellar. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still, a faint light from the hearth glimmered on the gold plugs hanging from his ears, a sign of his high status. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Benjamin Driscoll took one long deep drink of green water air and fainted. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the other, fainter galaxies must be more distant still, a hundred billion of them, sprinkled through the dark to the frontiers of the known Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a battle of wills, and with his special understanding, there was just a faint chance he could win. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday’s hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It seems that no one is home, but when I press my ear against the door, there's a faint scuffing sound, like chairs pushed back from a table. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t think that she would faint, but she felt strange, uncertain. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Derby threw herself onto her child, then fainted, this time for real. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was still except for the faint, gasping cough of his old father, whose room was opposite to his own across the middle room. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The time interval between the arrival of successive waves at the spaceship would get longer and longer, so the light from the star would appear redder and redder and fainter and fainter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jingling and clopping sounds were now growing fainter again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then the footsteps receded, the whistling grew fainter. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sentry’s head, bleeding and wet and ash-pale, fell to the ground as he fainted, and his dæmon set about calming and gentling him as the bear stepped away beside Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The top of the Washington Monument picked up the day’s first rays of faint pink light. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Before Thomas could answer, the faint memory of last night, before he fell asleep, came to him, Teresas words inside his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

Yet as she lay under her thin blanket, she could hear die wolves howling .. . and another sound, fainter, no more than a whisper on the wind, that might have been screams. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A faint scent of cologne hovers around him, the kind they sell at the comer drugstore. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a light breeze, which lifted a faint scent out of the flowers and rustled the stiff leaves, and Mary imagined a huge, dim benevolence holding her up, like a pair of giant hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sail heals like a membrane, until all that remains is a faint scar where the tear had been, a slightly deeper beige than the rest of the canvas sail. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The old-timers wanted to see how we’d handle it, wanted to cull the faint of heart. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Distantly, from the floor above, and growing fainter still, he heard the voice: I smell blood. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The tiny tail gunner woke up while Yossarian was cutting with the scissors, saw him, and fainted again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Hermione Granger was shrinking against the wall opposite, looking as if she was about to faint. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When I peek at him, I find him staring down at me, a faint smile on his lips. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Candlelight from the cresset over the great bed threw the faintest flicker of brown light over the stones. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a faint scrabbling sound, up near the roof. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Each time I think of it, every ten seconds or so all day long, I faint inside. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A pale coat of yellow paint makes a faint attempt at sprucing it up. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

To begin with there was only a faint rumble, and then the whole earth seemed to shake as the elephants entered the field. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“He looks exactly like an ape!” exclaimed a terrified young white girl who watched the black slayer being loaded onto a stretcher after he had fainted. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a buzz, and then suddenly, from the South Pole, a faint voice floated out into the Popper living room. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first light of morning—a wintry orange hue dappling the sky— appeared high and far in the distance above the salt water, faint beyond the leaded windows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It is called wine,” said O’Brien with a faint smile. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Jesper was tempted to pretend to faint, but he settled for the effect of men toppling to the ground all around him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mark had never known such hatred for anyone, and in some faint part of his psyche he knew it wasn’t quite rational. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Your kids faint when they see their own shadows.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be more tan than pale, with freckles or faint sun spots on the bridge of his nose. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The marriage line is faint, crisscrossed by tiny cracks in the skin starting and ending in a mystery. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I poked at it with a toe, nose wrinkling at its faint scent of stale cigarette smoke. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Unlike the faint scurry raised by fingers against a plastic computer keyboard, the smack and clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I could barely see the papers’ brown scrawl, so precious as it was, in the faint light. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She heard the sound of the library door closing and then steps moving away, getting fainter and fainter. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t the faintest idea what it might be, but he could feel it in his bones that something was going to happen soon. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

They fired at the second man again, destroying his other arm, and he fainted dead away. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Standing there, afraid to move any closer to the edge, I noticed a single set of faint crampon tracks leading past me toward the abyss. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, a faint, foul chemical smell and a cool, humid emptiness waft out from the main doors of the building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Lila screamed when Darren held it up, and Josie made fake barfing sounds, and Hillary and two other girls pretended like they were fainting, but all the boys thought it was really cool. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the closing of the casket, when the people who were going to faint fainted and the women in white dresses were fanning them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had arrived at the greenhouse by a faint trail through the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Outside the windows, a steady roar was interrupted by sharp sirens or the insistent crash and clang of garbage cans, the whining motors of cars, and the faint sound of babies crying. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The falls up the river made a faint rushing sound. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, maybe from somewhere upstairs, there was a faint thump. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was too faint and dizzy to feel embarrassed, but Lyra became embarrassed for him and went out. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, from about a foot away, I did hear it, terribly faint and fast. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the faint moonlight that came through a high small window, I saw only flags on wooden poles. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jo thought she was asleep, she lay so still, and putting down her book, sat looking at her with wistful eyes, trying to see signs of hope in the faint color on Beth’s cheeks. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In and out, I could hear a faint crackling, like paper crumpling, like a faint sigh. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Tessie returned from her trips downstairs I began to detect, in addition to the traces of tears on her face, faint streaks of guilt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment it looked as though she might faint. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He was going to faint again, and this would all be over. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes, Jinny forced herself to lean over, touch his lips, make sure there was still a faint stream of breath passing between them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The candles burning in the temple had scents as well; even the unscented ones gave off faint wisps of smoke from their wicks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On that version the busty Miss Scarlet lounged on a fainting couch like a panther in a red dress, smoking a cigarette from a long black holder. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

How strange, I thought, that he nearly fainted once from watching someone else’s illness, and now he was so able to endure his own. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no nurses, so the few teachers who patrolled the columns attempting to maintain order, along with several older schoolgirls, attended to the fainted victims. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint snuffling and then some guttural noises like a growl or bark, followed by a low and plaintive howl? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Bigger shifted his feet and listened to the faint clang of another street car passing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There seeing an abandoned hut he entered it, and too faint to light a fire he fell down on the cold stones of the hearth, and lay so with his wounds unstanched. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could see a spiderweb of faint thin lines across her back where someone had whipped her. .. she is beautiful, so... so beautiful.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Someday, when the spirit of Zimbabwe stumbled and the mhondoro grew faint, the gate would open again and remind the rest of the world of what it once had been. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In these long summer days, his uncle Finn, Junior Haskell, and Joplin, Missouri, all seemed like a faint memory that was no longer nipping at his heels. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wore her emerald silk with the short train, one of her best, and the train made a faint whish-whish sound as she walked. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Lyra could hear faint cries of pain and misery. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As they were paddling away from the couple’s house, they heard a faint female voice. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Three firemen and five policemen fainted and had to be carried away. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth, but I felt like I would faint. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Er—” The truth was that Scabbers had never shown the faintest trace of interesting powers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I could smell the faint odor of the stream we had splashed through on the last leg of our journey, solvents. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So you faint at the sight of blood?” he asked. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She looked under the sink for a flashlight, and found one, but the batteries had long since run down, and it barely glowed with the faintest straw-colored light. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Dany could hear sounds within the walls, a faint scurrying and scrabbling that made her think of rats. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There, at the right corner of his mouth, where his scar met his lips—a faint smile. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He heard a sound—a faint, incredulous chuff—and spun toward it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the halls between afternoon classes, she’d bump into me and apologize, or give a faint wave from a distance and mouth “Hi.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Desperate and dirty though I was, the faint promise of happiness glimmered before me like sunlight through the ceiling of the forest. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I took a bite of the pancake and almost fainted. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Harker reported last night and this morning as usual: “lapping waves and rushing water,” though she added that “the waves were very faint.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was so bad Dussel thought I was going to faint, and I nearly did. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Gary Drake and Ross Wilcox might’ve been slagging me off, but the fainter the voices became, the less I wanted to go back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a faint rustle in a high pine nearby. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said she didn’t need to go to a hospital and that she fainted every time she got “emotional.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I barely see the faint glow of the sphere as it melts into Suma’s spine. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then we watched the faint glow of the fires in the distance. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Briony resisted because she wanted to chase in solitude the faint thrill of possibility she had felt before, the elusive excitement at a prospect she was coming close to defining, at least emotionally. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“He is, eh? Dead, you say...Vizz…” and then he fainted again. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He then sank to the floor in a dead faint. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But the crack was much thinner than he'd thought, now he got down to it, he could see nothing except a faint greyness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Look at these prices!” cried Eye, who seemed ready to faint again, but the maitre d’ insisted on serving them for free. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He rowed, the faint sound of his oars lost in the rhythm of the waves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Confused, faint, and feeling nauseous from sneezing, tears streaming down his flushed cheeks, Bud raised his left hand. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A low hum, a rumble under- foot, a deep-throated whistle, faint at first and then louder as the train gets close. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then a faint amusement overcame her face, and she said, “Okay.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I caught his eye, a faint smile came over his face. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We heard the faint sound of creaking metal. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A faint light streamed through the carved openings, causing a decoration on the emperor’s collar to flash in Pinmei’s eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m not gonna faint in the middle of the road and wave a white handkerchief!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guests whiz past, their laughter a faint, distant echo. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Manchee wanders in and out the back doors as I sweep, sometimes chasing the pink moths I stir from faint corners. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Anybody come to a block away, they faint from the smell.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lift his book to my nose and breathe in the faint smell of Javier’s bedroom. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He gives me a faint smile, and I see the tears in his blue eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I see a very faint shadow of my hand on the green desk blotter. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you told me he were Satan in masquerade, there would be a faint chance that I might believe you.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

There was a faint—a very, very faint—humming sound. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He’s got faint circles under his eyes, but his face is soft and amused, one hand resting above his head on the pillow while the other holds up the phone for the selfie. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A faint, corrupt perfume hung in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I shocked them with that last one, but they didn’t yell or scream or faint. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had a faint, dry smell of herbs, an echo of the pothead smell that always lingered in the dusty corridors of Durbinstall: patchouli oil, clove cigarettes, incense. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Only the faintest light came through the tangled summer growth above them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sophie peered into the jar and there, sure enough, she saw the faint translucent outline of something about the size of a hen’s egg. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think a couple of little ones fainted. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead meat, dry blood, a faint whiff of rot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, a faint rattling could be heard from inside it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She shivers underneath my “touch,” her eyes locked on mine, a faint red blooming in her cheeks as the pool cue climbs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Coworkers warned me that the first time they donned the backpack vacuum they felt faint, but not me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He almost fainted when he saw how big their expense account was. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a faint hope flicker in my chest, remembering that night we lay atop the greystone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She looked up at him and saw the familiar, faint lunacy shining in Jamie’s eyes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

For he had heard a sound—a very faint sound—somewhere outside his bedroom door. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

When the sun was halfway across the sky, the bombs and the artillery shells went quiet, and I heard the machine guns come, faint, then closer, jeeps driving fast past our building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were other Horcruxes out there somewhere, but he did not have the faintest idea where they could be. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was the faint sound of a harmonica and then gradually the music grew louder. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The cries of the swaying animals dwindled and became fainter. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The only sound of life that Jon could hear was the faint clash of swords coming from the yard outside the armory. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Republic flag stands are positioned at both ends of the curtain, and as we approach, I see that the curtain has a faint pattern of the flag on it as well. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The absence of Cleopatra’s own voice and only faint words from her subjects leave us free to draw our own conclusions. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

With a faint feeling of satisfaction Winston laid the fourth message aside. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She says this country hasn’t voted for anything in twenty-six years and it’s only these silly little elections that keep the faint memory of a democracy going. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan no longer said perhaps; only a faint spark of hope, obstinately refusing to die, brought him out each dawn to scour the heavens for a sign. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a considerable time before they heard the faint clatter as it hit the Abbey floor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he removed the .30-30 from the saddle scabbard and walked north, into a faint evening breeze. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Uncle Andrew dropped down in a dead faint. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I remembered the pleasure of fainting that day during the Daughters of Mary meeting and thought now how much I would like to keel over right here in the truck. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the last page he saw pencilled in a faint set of letters and figures. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we both faint dead away, Mr. K says to me, “Now watch and perhaps you can learn a thing or two.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The office is quiet except for the faint hum coming from the dean secretary’s computer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And then — could it be? — the voices behind him were growing faint. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later we were standing around the landing zone, discussing how to get Beck down, when a faint thwock- thwock-thwock-thwock sounded from the valley below. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the faint and hazy Chicago skyline across the lake. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Alma Ember and her mother barge into the house with an odd familiarity and go directly into the dining room, where Cullen believes he hears the faintest sounds of laughter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The counter, faces, the booths and tables, the radio in the corner, whirring fans on the ceiling—all seemed to become very faint and still. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Wouldn't look good if you fainted from hunger." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When I drift away from the fire to find a place to throw down my sleeping bag, the first faint smear of dawn is already bleaching the rim of the northeastern sky. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them stayed on grants as large as principalities, given to them by Spanish kings who had not the faintest idea of the gift. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the moon that allowed me to make out a sign hanging over the door, which bore an image of a white stag, ghostlike in the faint light. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This is all so funny, you can’t imagine,” she said, with the faintest tremor in her voice, and Zooey looked over at her. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then there came a faint glow and stir in the heart of it, and it held his eyes, so that now he could not look away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A few people who had fainted were being revived on the side aisles when the evangelist opened the doors of the church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sagging piles of rotted wood and fabric had rebuilt themselves into fainting couches and armchairs, and sunlight streamed through high windows once so grimy I’d thought they were blacked out. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His faint smile was mocking; his eyes were still tight. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But I cannot reassure myself; I become terribly faint. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a faint drift of greenish luminescent smoke, the motion of a single huge October leaf blowing across the lawn and away. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would never watch another fist fight without fearing he was going to faint and crack his skull open on the pavement or suffer a fatal heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They heard the faint sound of soft feet on wet leaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday in summer someone fainted from heat, had to be carried out, but the mass went on. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the darkness, Pinmei saw the faint red glow of the thread around her wrist. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the black distance there was a faint sound of metal clanking, screeching. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Finding them wasn’t as easy as I had expected,” he added, with the faintest note of reproach in his voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With the faint taste of blood in my mouth, I jumped out of the sliding door, taking in the sight of the van. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hatch had come inside to start a fire, and I smelled a faint tang of wood smoke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rachel opens the package and falls in a faint on the floor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His inner mind, reaching out to turn the corner for him, had heard the faintest whisper. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doctor Baker has not the faintest idea what you are driving at.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Through the open windows came the faint leathery scent of cow dung, always present except on the coldest days, and noticeable only to those who had been away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I won't let you leave wi' that," I said in a voice nearly as faint and faltering as his. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I wondered if he might faint. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His face was ashen, his pulse was faint, and he had vomited and then fainted. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The room was dark except for a faint, yellow light filtering through the bars of the window. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even earthworms make sounds, faint staccato notes in regular clusters. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marcus, you are going to faint if you don’t take off your coat.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Drumbeats sounded, faint and distant, like someone was playing somewhere out on Isihlangu. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them, and all three turned toward it, toward the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his head bent over in the lamplight I could discern a slight mound in his brow above the eyebrows, the faint bulge which is usually believed to indicate mental power. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead he thought he could hear the whir of a machine running quietly, and there was a faint vibration in the metal under his feet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a dissonance, faint, every two minutes across the water, and finally even that disappeared. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were faint, deliberately so; her parents were probably trying not to wake her up or alarm her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The sky is white, the distant horizon gray and sparking with faint lightning—not just ahead, but in all directions. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a faint scent of lavender in the house. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She could hear him peeling the egg, then a faint silvery clink as he picked up the salt spoon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her voice was faint and shaky, and she tried again, but no one answered. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He said, in a faint echo of bluster, “Look here. I’m allowed to search the furniture in your house, and anything else I find in it. You are in it, aren’t you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I could see a faint smile begin to play around the corners of my father’s lips. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was the faintest trace of a negative shake of the robot’s head. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Expect it to make you feel like you’re going to throw up or faint. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My father rubbed his jaw and made a faint clicking sound with his teeth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then Jackie came outside looking like Miss America, and I thought Burl was going to faint right there in the red dirt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I think she’s fainted. I don’t know what happened, she didn’t even stick her finger.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“An empathy link! It’s real faint, like somebody’s suppressed it, but—” “I know what!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before nightfall he saw away off on his left hand the long, faint shoreline of a great land, which must be Karego-At. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what you do for people who faint,” said Beverly. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was to say good morning to her, to hope that she had slept well, to assure her of his devotion, which he trusted she in some faintest manner returned. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It burned redder than the other stars, and did not twinkle, though sometimes it flared up bright and sometimes dwindled down to no more than a distant spark, dull and faint. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was tall and willowy with long blonde hair and appeared to emanate a faint, silvery glow. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The chimes grew faint until I stopped hearing them altogether, then they would start up again then stop, then start again. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Before R.C. started giggling, I could hear the faint strains of waltz music from their record player. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The foul magick contained on the following pages is not for the faint of heart. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

From inside of the office comes the faint sound of footsteps, and Katherine tenses. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I knew he didn’t have the faintest notion why he was doing any of it, but he said, real impatient, “You ain’t got to tell me but once’t, Will Tweedy. What’s next?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was a faint yellow odour like mustard from a jar. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint, foul smell of horse dung drifted from the boy. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun began to feel faint when he rose to his feet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A faint yellow glow filtered through the stacks from some hidden lamp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One of the survivors fainted as soon as Reed landed in the longboat, but the other backed away, scrabbling for purchase in the piles of bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Before any of them could say anything else, there was a faint popping noise, and Mr. Weasley appeared out of thin air at George’s shoulder. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They nearly fainted themselves when Antonio regained consciousness, sat up, and asked where he was. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Whenever I fainted near a store, I would get a piece of candy or fruit from the storekeeper upon reviving. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear faint snuffling from beneath the hood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The walls, ceiling, and floor were all padded with thick white cloth, muffling even the faint noises from the hallway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, minutes later, the faint sound of a truck, going down the lane. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Outside he could hear the faint barking of dogs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’s returning a box of borrowed files to his dad’s office in the Dirksen Building after hours when he hears the faint sound of Muddy Waters from the floor above, and it hits him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” said the boy in a faint voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dust was clearing, and from somewhere there was light: a strange faint golden glimmer, like a luminous misty rain falling all around them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then he added with the faintest of smiles, "This is the first time no one has had fits because I got my clothes grimy. The ladies keep me clean and starched as a pillowcase!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

An hour after she had first come into the room, he heard a quiet noise outside the door: a faint scratch and a whisper. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I almost faint at the sight of my calf. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the faint light or the way Joon, who was never still, did not even move his hands, but for a moment I thought I was seeing his ghost. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were faint, black marks of a rubber plimsoll, between the metal ribs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

"Well, sir, he had some kind of fainting spell." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hail was so furious and thick he could barely see a faint gray tree line down the hill. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Envy radiates from them, I can smell it, faint wisps of acid, mingled with their perfume. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every junior in the school had known for two weeks, and so far not even the faintest rumor had leaked out. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My mother was watching Lily with narrowed eyes and then a faint smile crept over her lips. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“We ought to rehearse tonight. Come here, Amy, and do the fainting scene, for you are as stiff as a poker in that.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, a faint breeze came through the wood towards them, and passed, just stirring the warm air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But the hunter also sensed a faint electronic signal. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Now, he watched the kid Renault, looking as if he was ready to faint with fright, his face pale and eyes wide with dread, and Archie having fun with him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside we could hear the faint rasping as the two mice tugged on the bolt handle, working it back. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the gashes across his midsection and nearly fainted. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I was glad I got to recline on the ground, because my knees were shaking so hard I was afraid that the Fatherland might faint right on the spot. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body radiates a faint but palpable heat in the chair beside her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m feeling a little faint just thinking about it.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Each successive bounce, becomes both fainter and faster. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t gone ten paces before she heard his faint footsteps behind her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

By then her eyes were red and raw from crying, and she felt as if she might faint. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It's over, and I start back; the faint sound over the loudspeaker announces supper. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For a moment she felt faint, her head swam, sounds receded, the room darkened, but almost at once her senses came back even more pitilessly than before, and nothing in the situation had changed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can also tell he’s still clinging to a faint hope that we all might have forgotten. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Far away, growing faint and fainter, came wafting back the last sound of the tune they played. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shasta's heart fainted at these words for he felt he had no strength left. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And up from the quiescent, waiting land a faint mist rose, silver as moonlight, and clung about the tree trunks. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

At last the sky above grew faint with the first grey of morning. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The wind from the shore brought a faint scent of strawberries. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The only sounds that answer him are the faint trickle of the stream’s water and the hush of golden leaves drifting in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was the faintest of chances that elil would disperse them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with a faint smile, she leads us through tired people and rubbish and empty water bottles, straight to where our family waits. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice grew fainter as she was carried off. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whisper was so faint I almost missed it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Now the faintest stirring of a breeze rustled the display of sedge that stood before the fireplace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Aurelia turned faint from relief and her mother grasped her by the arms. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the perpetual gloom that prevailed behind the stage, I could see a faint light issuing through the crack at the bottom of the door. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to take his pulse, but all I could feel was a fluttering, so faint I could not count it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The faint sun rays at his back cast his face in shadows. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The headlights swam and faded from his sight as he fainted. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the faint, musical gurgle of liquor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol darts in and out of the ocean, making faint, temporary footprints, soaking his rolled-up cuffs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael stood beside him while he photographed Hatsue—he winked at her when his father put one eye to the camera, and she gave back the faint trace of a smile. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t kiss her, didn’t let his face touch hers, but placed it close enough so that he could feel the moistness of her breath and smell its faint curdled scent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep up my pace for the second mile, but I developed a stitch in my side, right under my ribs, and I was panting so hard, I thought I would faint. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Florida heard the faint wail of the freight train as it wound its way through the distant hills, and she pulled the quilt up close to her face. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then, ahead of her, in the direction of the place where she had entered the bush, she heard a rustle, a faint scraping noise. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

All I got was a faint hum in the base of my skull. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the ramifications of Party doctrine she had not the faintest interest. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They saw him walk right up to Arnold, and they saw Arnold look up at him and faint dead away. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean——” stammered the bug, who suddenly felt a bit faint. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beatty leaned forward in the faint mist of smoke from his pipe. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint smell of urine that was erased by the breeze rolling through the window screens. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Though I never have, I thought I might faint. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

After what seemed to be a very long time, a faint whisper of smoke snaked up from the twigs and leaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint light leaked through a crack, and he hurled himself up at it, paused, took another breath, and plunged into a large, murky room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint trail was a good excuse to veer slightly off course. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Squealing hysterically, he grappled clear of the sleeping bag, crashed blindly into the wall and bounced onto the floor, almost fainted, and started to cry. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cries, as faint as the chirping of a cricket in the vast black night, were lost in the darkness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His breath came short and as his head went under he could hear a faint grating of gravel along the bottom. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was black as pitch, without even the pinpricks of stars in the darkness, and the faint illumination from the back side of the sun was dim and cold, more like mist than light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She warned that if the levels dipped close to zero, a Belle could faint, sicken, or even die. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Since when have you started fainting?” she said, and sat down on the edge of the bed, causing me to roll into her side. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the plants were watered, she sat alone, knees to chin, and rocked herself back and forth as the sun began to rise, a faint pink stain creeping up the eastern rim of the sky. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next he rolled a cigarette, and, quietly smoking, he listened woozily to faint meadowlark songs drifting melodically on the clear summer air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba’s voice was faint this time, wavering, the sound of a man truly suffering. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hair blew in a faint, smoky scent of mesquite. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When the heat made her faint, she awoke with her head smeared into a rafter, her neck feeling like a chicken’s after Alice the cook tried to wring it for supper. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter hesitated; her eyes closed, she seemed to sway as if she were fainting; but she kept her balance and opened her eyes again, with an infinite beautiful sadness in them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

From an intergalactic vantage point we would see, strewn like sea froth on the waves of space, innumerable faint, wispy tendrils of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen the music was somewhat fainter than it had been on the porch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often she’d lift a vial and swirl it, then walk to Miss Peregrine and pass it under her beak—much the way smelling salts are waved under the nose of someone who’s fainted. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then he listened; a faint sound of piano music floated to him from somewhere. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint sound in the hall below. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He leaned toward the open window with a faint smile on his lips. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His action was little more than a faint gesture, but it meant that Kurtsinger had to either slow down or commit to the outside. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only faint indentations where the holes had been. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, I hear another faint breath from the loudspeakers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Her voice became faint, like it became when she knew she had to concede something but thought she could keep the universe from hearing. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“If we had time to waste, I’d faint,” Maria sighed, shining the flashlight into the new opening. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faint dampness and confining cling of my sleeping-bag; the sound of the snow; barely audible, Estraven’s breathing as he sleeps; darkness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now her faint eyebrows lifted, the corners of her mouth rose, crinkling the wan cheeks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of light regular breathing and a continuous murmur, as of very faint voices remotely whispering. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moans, weeping, incessant chattering, screaming, all very faint. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could see a faint gleam along the side of a brass microscope. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounded faint and distant, as if she were speaking from atop a high mountain. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that weird buzz that the air sometimes takes on when you’re sitting alone in silence, or the faint hum of a computer monitor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Just a ghostly figure some would see walking the woods at night, a faint rattling sound accompanying the movement. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I felt suddenly faint and somehow still rooted to the ground. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You are determined to hate him, Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She paused, expecting him to smile, but he went on smoking his cigarette, and I noticed, faint as gossamer, the line between his brows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei could not even see a faint shadow of it as they began to walk over the lake...or was it an ocean? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It gives off a faint scent of mothballs whenever I move. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Amari did not know what he meant, so she just sat there, about to faint from fright. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s so close I could run my fingers through his shiny, tangly brown hair, run them across the faint spidery wrinkles that fan out at his temples, across the dark worrying shadows beneath. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Inscriptions, papyruses, books time-bind the human species and permit us to hear those few voices and faint cries of our brothers and sisters, our ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma heard a faint scratching at the door, and when she opened it there was Grandpa, lying in a heap, his brains dripping out of his head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even the faint smell of fertilizer seems clean. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I feel her wave of worry like a patio heater—faint and ineffective, but constant. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We can hear the faint static emanating from the trunk, and the spooky, distant voices speaking French and English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The first time I met the Minister of War, I fainted," he says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t the faintest idea what any of it meant. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"If the unicorn will let you. Otherwise you'll just faint or something, and drag me onto the ground with you. And we need to go somewhere so that you can get food." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was in his mind, which meant he was alive—and her moth that was perched on his lips could feel the faint stir of breath—but where was he? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I sketch this scene in faint, careful lines. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t the faintest idea what he and Danny had been talking about. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Black spots swim across my field of vision, and I think there’s a really good chance I could faint. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At last, after a long pause, he said to me in a faint whisper:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A faint memory of past tournaments comes back to me, and suddenly I recall seeing Tremaine and Roshan frequently together, laughing and smiling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hear voices in the living room—a chorus of them, in fact, joined by occasional bursts of laughter and a faint melody plucked on an instrument, a banjo or a guitar. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Ekon woke in the morning's faint hours, the leaves around him were slicked shiny and wet; the dirt was soft and damp. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Though it had turned to a faint drizzle as we walked, the damage had already been done to the flimsy cardboard boxes in our arms. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Under one eye she still bore faint scars where a knife had cut away her tears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’d never fainted in my life, but I thought it sounded like an interesting experience. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She sways as though she might faint, and several attentive audience members move to assist her but she does not fall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He thought that he had heard a faint voice answering him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He looked up at them, and a faint light of cunning and eagerness flickered for a second in his pale blinking eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He noticed one or two yellow leaves and a faint touch of bronze here and there in the green boughs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched until the last faint puff of smoke disappeared. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faint hum of a motor rose up to us in the still air. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

A few windows flicker with the faint blue light of late-night TV. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

And there was a faint, sweet smell of incense in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was growing pale and there was a faint light in the east, but a strong wind began to blow. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this has left the center of the cavernous hold dark, except for the faint glow of stasis gel barrels between empty pods around the perimeter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mambu told us that when he plucked the boy’s eye out, the boy ran to punch him, but he couldn’t see him, so he ran into the wall, banging his head hard, and fainted. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And, without warning, the anguish of her loss returned, like a blow to his stomach, and he was afraid that he would faint. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doha, your noona carried you all the way home on her back, both of you looking like bloody messes. Your halmoni almost fainted when she saw your back.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The paper window let out a faint orange glow. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

"My daughter often forgets her courtesies," Eddard Stark said with a faint smile that softened his words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By this time the poor charioteer was half fainting with terror, and he let the reins fall. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could still see the faint, blurred likeness of the machine, like a relic from a previous civilization. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t lift a hand for that woman if she fainted in front of me. Thank you, son,” she said, and smiled. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faint music slipped and slithered through the air, insisting that I follow it. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I search the kitchen, the bathroom, and finally I hear a faint voice coming from behind the closed door of her bedroom. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

According to them, I’d fainted straightaway, and Miles had tried to beat the snake to death while it was still wrapped around me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The breeze brings the faint cries of those whose last breaths are leaving their mangled bodies. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Chimes rang* and then I heard faint and irregular footsteps tapping on a parquet floor, coming toward the door. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The empty house frightened her, and she nearly fainted when the landlord’s parrot spoke to her in the dark. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was something elusive, something faint and fragrant that I could not name. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her face had a little color in it now, but, although he spoke three fairy languages, he understood not a word of what she finally said in her faint tinkling voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Daniel Ellsberg was working late again, his boss’s office was dark, except for a faint light coming from the open safe in the wall. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They moved slowly, hauling their heavy load of fruit, picking their way carefully over the boulders and then along the faint sandy path in the rock. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the calm morning, with only a faint breeze stirring the leaves, it seemed impossible that a mighty thing like this should ever topple, but here it was. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They climbed upwards a little: it seemed cold and the noise of the stream had become faint. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And yet Mr. George F. Kennan, the retired diplomat, allowed that he felt “not the faintest moral responsibility for Africa.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harpy shook her wings wide, and the travelers nearly fainted from the hideous smells of corruption and decay that wafted from her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a faint odor of incense and something else that smelled sweet. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they convinced her of this she immediately fainted as if that was the intolerable part of the affair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She looks up and sees faint lights in the sky—the sun, the moon, the other planets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo thought that he heard a faint hiss as of venomous breath and felt a thin piercing chill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t help it; despite warnings and ghosts and shaky boycotts and cataclysmic girl-destroying exhalations, I lie down, rest my head on Oscar’s pillow, and breathe in the faint scent of him: peppery, sunny, wonderful. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She led them through an elegant hallway smelling of flowers into an enormous room, and when they saw what was inside, they nearly fainted from delight, Klaus especially. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The spymaster sat back and crossed his legs, looking at his two prisoners with faint amusement. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A faint smile remained on her lips, but her dark, intense eyes seemed to pierce right through me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His skin shone dark as bronze in the ruddy light from the brazier, the faint lines of old scars visible on his broad chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But now all that remained of the fantastical designs were faint waves on their fingers and the dark Sanskrit numbers on their palms. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Fisher Man fainted out there in the grove last week. Am I right?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memories I had now were frustratingly faint—whispers of the past. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Fischer and Lopsang soon resumed their descent as well, following the faint tracks left by the Taiwanese team as best they could. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a chance, a faint one, that I wrote an email to Tom and didn’t send it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Bertha told us about some woman in the grocery store who fainted in the cereal aisle but I wasn’t really listening because I was thinking about Wishbone. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Thinking some faint answer came in his inward hearing he pursued, calling once more. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Did the sight of my ankle make him lightheaded, faint, at the checkpoint yesterday, when I dropped my pass and let him pick it up for me? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hear faint footsteps and a girl of about three, in a dirty pink dress, emerges from the hall. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now that I lost a little bit of weight, I can see the faint suggestion of cheekbones. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, sometimes it seems to be getting fainter, and then it comes back. Don’t you think it’s darker today?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mists were so thick that only the nearest trees were visible; beyond them stood tall shadows and faint lights. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The faint light all about, quivering and sourceless, refracted in the rain of drifting soot. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

For quite a little interval, the faint swush of it was the only sound in the bathroom. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ida Nee said, “This is ridiculous. No one faints in my classes. I don’t believe in fainting.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. Rosen, a round-bellied man with a plump face and small, even teeth, spoke with a faint Eastern European accent, some­thing remotely Slavic. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The hands were extended, slightly off the horizontal at a faint angle, like a gull tilting into the wind. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, a dust cloud swept toward Nyame’s palace, and the faint sounds of screeching and rattling carried over the roar of the chaos in the bay. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

All of us sitting nearby froze, though we must have had the same exact thought: she’s fainted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She lay nude atop the featherbed, the soft curves of her young body limned in the faint glow from the hearth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I listen to the faint wheeze of air entering and leaving my chest. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

His claws made a faint hollow sound on the wood, so there must be water underneath. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was plain that Hermione didn’t have the faintest inkling that she had visitors, and that they might just as well tell her bedside cabinet not to worry for all the good it would do. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“She fainted,” somebody says, and then I know what I have done. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but the wide expanse of flat desert, which reached toward the edge of the horizon, where massive sandstone plateaus stood that were as faint and round as orange clouds. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He almost slaps me before he sees I’m fainting. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Evening was advancing toward the island; the sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls that were returning to their roosts among the square rocks, were fainter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Through the melted tallow on his face there was a faint flush of blood. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve forgotten about fainting and about the stacks of plates, and about falling into the creek and also about seeing the Virgin Mary. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The day has turned even colder, the wind more forceful, the sun a faint white patch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I hear a faint sound, a whoosh—then a hissing and gurgling. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She remembered that as she mounted the stairs with John’s heavy weight in her arms, and as she entered the door, she heard music, which became perceptibly fainter as Florence closed the door behind her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then an airplane droned in the distance, grew louder, then fainter, then louder again. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to make out what was happening, but the screams of the horses seemed loud even at this remove, and beneath them Catelyn heard the fainter clash of steel on steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had sticky notes and faint pencil scrawls on so many of the pages. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or if there was, it was too faint to be noticed, or too well hidden. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Celaena tried to sit up straighter, cursing herself for being unable to move without wanting to faint from pain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The faint sound of Diff’rent Strokes plays in the background on her end. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But this was no longer a faint thread in the air. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was a faint hiss, a noisome smell went up, the lights flickered and danced and swirled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If you were a great distance away, you would not see the Earth and the other planets at all; they would be only faint luminous points, lost in the glare of the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away across town in the night, the faintest whisper of a turned page. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first faint glimmer of light was tinting the east, though all the stars above shone as brilliantly as ever against the profound velvet black of the high heavens. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the urge to faint passes, I stare at the ground, sure I’ll never bring myself to look anyone in the eyes again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One afternoon he had had such a bad case of claustrophobia that he almost fainted in the booth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a faint scent of Violet Mints, the lavender-flavored candy Nan loved. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Here I am wearing my lucky bunny barrettes, but I am still thinking that I might faint.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

After a few moments he heard a scraping above him and saw the faint reflection of the golden ball. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A faint grating noise came from within the room, and it was not, I was certain, the sound of someone writing in a ledger. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The drums were pounding louder, as if to drown out a faint but spine-chilling screaming. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Her faint tinkling was the only sound to be heard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My grandfather told me Clara fainted the day he put the skin of the animal down as a rug, thinking it would please her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned in at a gate and almost made the steps of the house before she fainted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I shut the door and put my ear to the crack,” Ned recalled, “but could hear only a faint sound.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The flashlight in his hand dimmed to a faint glow, and he tossed it off to the side. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or—with a faint blush—“Trip’s going to be starting forward on the soccer team in the fall. He just found out.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kvothe gave a faint smile and looked down at the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The cries of the cliff-ghasts and the crash of the waves grew fainter as they climbed, and presently the only sound was the ceaseless crying of seabirds. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a great blackness looming slowly out of the East, eating up the faint blurred stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He fainted in his buggy on his return and had been out of sight since. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The sound produced by this method was faint but unmistakable: each time the pad of her middle finger slipped across the nail of her index, there was a fleshy click. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For half an hour he saw nothing, heard nothing but the faint ruffle of Margalo’s wings when she stirred in dream. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

When we finally reach the doors, I feel like I might throw up, or faint, or scream at the top of my lungs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I can see! I can hear!” he cried out, and fainted. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But he did not seem to be in any danger whatsoever of fainting. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He felt the last of his strength leave him, and his head hit the ground as he fainted. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She turned the photograph over and saw her mother’s handwriting in faint pencil. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eye sat back down on the sofa and looked faint. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He watches me when he thinks I can’t see him, afraid I’m going to break lab equipment or faint again. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could smell the faint soft magnolia scent as I sat here, on the lawn. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Across the extreme tip of his middle finger, he saw now as he lifted that hand, a faint sixteenth of an inch of black tread where tyre had touched in passing. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the dead towns doors lay wide and they thought they could hear the faintest crackle, like autumn leaves, from inside. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint light marked the eastern horizon, and the shoreline seemed very far away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Johnson, he might have a brain tumor making him faint like that. That boy needs an X-ray.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight suddenly failed, as a great black cloud sailed across the sky; and when the gaslight sprang up under Quincey’s match, we saw nothing but a faint vapour. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Because, if they were always there, how did she manage to turn doorknobs without fainting? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I stepped closer to her and caught the faint scent of honey coming from the wood. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, when the old people looked up from their checkers game, they thought they could hear faint peals of laughter. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was a faint sheet of fog settled low to the ground. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was the faintest glimmer of familiarity in it, as though he knew the story, but had forgotten it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She glanced at me again and gave me the faintest hint of a smile. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There was a faint patter on the roof, and droplets slid down the window over their bed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bill, Robert, Harold, Henry; the choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

So Lily gave me what I needed, including a little pill in case I got cramps, which I’d heard could be so bad, they could make you faint. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For some reason—perhaps it was a faint noise, like padded feet tiptoeing across the floor—he happened to look down. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was just her imagination, but she thought she felt the faintest bit of warmth coming from the tile of home in her pocket. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The music was sounding orangey and yellowish as I listened, and the faint whiff of lemons seemed to surround me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The voice was faint and distorted, as though impeded by something like a bubble, some mucus in her throat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Madam hurried to the library and told me to fetch her ivory fan from her bedchamber for she was feeling faint from heat and excitement. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint odor that I recognized. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pearl bent over the mailbox, and Mrs. Richardson imagined the faint squeak as the mailbox door opened, then shut. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how far offshore we’d drifted, but I could still see the faint string of lights that marked the coastline. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sellsword gave way, a faint smile playing over his lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I believe she’s fainted again. Unfortunately, she had to witness the disciplining of some unruly slaves, and it proved a bit much for her. See to her, will you, old fellow?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coughing fit overtook me and I felt faint. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was dark except for the faint glow of the lamp in the living room floating through the half-open door of my room. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The moment he entered the office, he fainted into his physician’s arms. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told Alba that she frequently took care of patients who were faint with hunger. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We picked our way carefully through fear of snakes down a faint footpath to the edge of the trees to urinate. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And from below, the faint sound of water tumbling through the valley. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The faint moonlight provided just enough light to help guide them into the sheltered doorstep of a shuttered tea shop nearby. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The pain made him dizzy and faint, and he lay on his side, crouched in the fetal position, his eyes closed. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

At the landing on the stairs was a tall palladian window and the faintest shape of it headlong on the stairwell wall in the day’s last light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The ants made a faint crunchy sound as life left them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint twinge, but only 'cause I was looking for it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The city man looked faint, but Honor and Hunter had not only watched the common and counted-on birthings farm people see, but had tugged and twisted newborns from all sorts of canals. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint smile on her lips now, and an air of eagerness about her, of anticipation. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Once or twice I nudged foot-sized rocks over the side and watched with faint horror as they crashed and tumbled to improbably remote resting places. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the jar Sophie could see the faint scarlet outline of something that looked like a mixture between a blob of gas and a bubble of jelly. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lilac shampoo and the almond in her skin lotion and beneath all of that the faint sweetness of the skin itself. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now, standing here in the faint February sun, I can hear the same stupid things that we said to each other that morning, that we always say to each other. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The latrines that ringed the encampment were overflowing and swarming with flies, and she saw faint greenish fuzz on many of the sharpened stakes that protected the perimeters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked up and saw with surprise that faint stars were appearing overhead amid the strands of hurrying cloud and fog. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her eyelids don’t flicker but there’s a faint twitching of her fingers, or do I imagine it? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Newt leaned over to get a better look into the Box, the faint bleating of a goat in the distance echoed across the courtyard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A faint clattering rises from the alley, and Etienne peers through the shutters of Marie-Laure’s bedroom, down six stories, and sees the ghost of Madame Manec standing there in the moonlight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Worsley, who had been at the tiller for more than fifty hours, finally pitched forward in a dead faint. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He felt a faint nostalgia at the familiar apple scent of her shampoo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The edges of his vision were growing faint, fuzzy, and black. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The faint taste of blood blooms on his tongue, and he smiles as he opens up to it, pushes it into Henry’s mouth, tugs at his hair with both hands. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were smaller, fainter scars where at one time his cheeks had been stitched. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Frodo sat and listened to the faint lap and gurgle of the River fretting among the tree-roots and driftwood near the shore, until his head nodded and he fell into an uneasy sleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She described how she would roll up the side panels and everyone would practically faint at the cloud of wonderful smells. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was a very faint soft tissue impression. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Now that they were out of sight of the lights of Bolvangar, and the blaze of the fire was only a faint glow, the only light came from the faint radiance of the snow-covered ground. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled them; there was a faint fragrance there, under the smell of dust. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hermione stretched her hand as high into the air as it would go without her leaving her seat, but Harry didn’t have the faintest idea what a bezoar was. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When I looked around, I saw Gum Baby lying on the floor as if she had fainted. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was the faint rumble of a car engine, like something remembered from a dream. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They all heard it—a faint scratching on the back wall of the smokehouse. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here, on Watership Down, there floated up only faint traces of the daylight noise below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faint hum and rattle of machinery still stirred the crimson air in the Embryo Store. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Angel’s name was called, she almost fainted. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold my finger over the button, listening to the soft hum in the speakers, the faint squeak of the spindles winding the tape, waiting for her voice to return. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

An hour and a half into our trip, the faint smell of salt pours in through the tiny cracks in the bus windows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“A feeling I’ve had once or twice before, just before I fainted. A lightheadedness ... everything intense... but my body feels cold and numb...” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So we conversed, and grimly, at a distance, with my long sword between, guarding the blood, while the faint image of the lad spoke on. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who?” said Digory in a faint voice; but he had already guessed the answer. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

If I was going to faint, it was better to stay close to the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Hello,” they called, and their voices, faint and ragged, were almost one voice floating up to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Catelyn could feel the faint touch of spray on her face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her voice was distant and faint, coming, I thought, from near the bam. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I push through cloud banks, follow faint tracks, catch the scent of cinnamon, of dill. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This Vante guy’s around my age, a little taller, with a big Afro puff and the faint signs of a mustache. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

On the second day the calls are fainter; that will be because his lips and mouth have become dry. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fyrian sighed, clutching his front paws to his heart and nearly fainting dead away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Momma screamed, and I thought she was going to do one of those movie-style faints, she even put her hand over her forehead and staggered back a little bit. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and shouted one word to her child. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

This part of the journey was often interrupted because at the faintest sound of a motor, the Tillermans ducked into the bushes at the side of the road and hid. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He figured if someone snuck up to the house and looked in on him, he could pretty well startle whoever it was into a faint. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But when the train came speeding toward the screen, the audience screamed and fainted because they thought they were in danger of being run over. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Soon, her empty jug was bouncing against her arm when she heard a faint noise running through the trees. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Mess is mostly dark except for the lights along the perimeter of the room that let off a faint electronic buzz. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The idea of invisible creatures swooping through the towns and countryside, spreading despair and hopelessness in his voters, made him feel quite faint. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She had missed the faint smell of detergent that lingered in the living room after Ugwu cleaned the louvers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They speak different things just by the faintest of angles. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Slowly, it disappeared from view with the thread scratching the darkening sky with a faint red line. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

From the corridor, a faint sound grew louden Taran hastened to press his ear against the slot in the portal. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

All he heard was one faint word, “Farewell.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dustfinger knocked on the door bearing the number 5 a faint rustling could be heard on the other side of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His hands and feet are ice-cold; his breathing is faint, almost undetectable. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The explosion, the fire, the smoke, the faintest recollection of me shouting Hammie’s name as we lean against each other. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He put his ear to Garfield's chest and heard a faint flutter. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the faint light emanating from their pursuers made the oddity up ahead all the more apparent. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But I’m sure a faint glow filters through the middle of the stone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He dashed into the bathroom, lifted the toilet lid, and there was Furball, so waterlogged and exhausted, he’d been able to utter only the faintest whine. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint orange glow lights the dial, and I squint and set it to five, right in the middle, just like always. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they set out again he was very weak and for all his speeches he’d become more faint of heart than he had been in years. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And now, I’m standing so close to the glass, I can almost see myself in its reflection: the faint curve of my cheek, the straight line of my nose, the dark gleam of my eyes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

By the time Arya lit her stub of a candle, only a faint smell remained of him, a whiff of ginger and cloves lin-gering in the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it made me sick inside and I felt faint. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The agent smiled; Rudy Noyes did not drum up even the faintest wisp or flicker of amusement. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mess is mostly dark except for the lights along the perimeter of the room that let off a faint electronic buzz. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Percy set his sword on the floor where it glowed with a faint bronze light. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His chest was heaving; his face was red, and his dæmon was limp and fainting in the monkey’s hands. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You . . . made . . . me . . . faint,” I accused him dizzily. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The horizon stretched, impersonal once more, barren of all but the faintest trace of smoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The red light traced faint lines across his body, across his back and arms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Counselor Chu asked with just the faintest question in his voice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was exhausted and sad and seemed perpetually near fainting. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her head was covered with a kerchief, and there were faint tufts of sand-colored hair on her upper lip. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He remembered the door with the faint rectangle of light from before—but there was no sign of it now. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Seth pressed through dense undergrowth until he reached a faint, crooked path, the kind made by animals. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She could not read the faintest sign of welcome in his thin stem lips or in the dark eyes that glowered fiercely at her from under heavy grizzled eyebrows. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He felt as if he would faint, but it wasn’t from the exertion. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She landed, unloaded her plane, and took off for home—but fainted from blood loss and crashed just as she was about to touch the ground again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His English was clipped by a faint accent I couldn’t trace. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, where the faint path from the House in the Woods meets the main path to the lake, I heard a boy, gasping for breath, pounding this way. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred the mist, and the faint scent of copper stung her nose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“My true friend,” she said, in a faint voice, but with untellable pathos, “My true friend, and his! Oh, guard him, and give me peace!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Duly noted,” he says in a faint voice. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He looked vaguely puzzled at first, then slightly taken aback, then, as I glared up at him, he gave a faint, thin smile and mutely handed me a piece of paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Purple strip lighting encircles the entrance, just like on the Pleiades Corp commercial, but beyond that it is dark except for a faint blue glow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The old man’s knees failed him, his heart grew faint, recalling all that Odysseus calmly told. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clutches the desk for a moment, as if feeling faint. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Good-bye, Wart,” cried two faint voices outside the solar window. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman standing a few feet ahead of them fainted. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had, since she began to gaze at her past, imagined a relationship with him, but only in faded images and faint lines. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The girl on the left has dark curly hair, a faint birthmark on her chin, and long, lush eyelashes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting- wise. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Isabella’s is faint, just a swipe of shiny bronze, but Julia’s is bright sparkly blue. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And from somewhere, just like when I was beneath the Tree of Power, I heard the faintest drumming. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I could smell him—his faint cologne, the scent that was entirely his own— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She presses her whole weight on it, and the antenna makes a faint grating noise above the roof as it telescopes upward. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But then the girl in the pink dress fainted, and the twirling lesson came to a screeching halt. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The gasoline was faint now, barely noticeable, and in the mirror the stain didn’t show. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran into the room next door to bring some spirits or other with which she could revive her mother from her fainting spell. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mute’s face was faint and very far away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Eric raised his head and achieved a faint ululation by beating on his open mouth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a faint ray of light from the street lamp outside, and Stuart could dimly see Margalo, asleep in the fern, her head tucked under her wing. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Francis’s coat whipped out behind him in theatrical billows; he kept glancing furtively around to see if his inquisitor was anywhere nearby and from time to time he emitted a faint, self-pitying cough. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was faint, almost drowned by the other noise, but I heard it the same way a mother can mark her child crying from a dozen rooms away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed to pulsate in a rhythm as faint and uneven as that of the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the light faded so the clink-clank died; in the gathering darkness only a few faint sounds of hammering told of a solitary stone-breaker continuing his labours. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light grows dim around us, with only faint rays of blue and silver dancing against the stone formations. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Strange spices scented the chilly autumn wind, and he could hear faint cries drifting over the wall from the streets beyond. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If he played the balance of diabetes management and reducing wrong, he could faint in the saddle while moving at forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had succeeded in removing the outer boards and part of the packing, which was a layer of dry ice, when from the depths of the packing case he suddenly heard a faint “Ork.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

She struggled to keep from fainting, to keep from vomiting, to keep her head from spinning. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Past the roar of blood in my ears, I discerned a faint crackling. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind,” I said in a faint voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His faint moustache had grown back, more noticeably than before. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice was pale, but she didn’t look like fainting; he thought if she really felt faint, she wouldn’t be able to say so; she’d just sink down into oblivion. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The lightning grew fainter, but water still poured into the pit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint ding rings out, alerting me that I’ve just downloaded something into my account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Mini looked like she was about to faint. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He has learned to do the waiting right, not to concentrate too hard, not to faint, not to attract attention, knows the terrible blows and kicks that fainting brings. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some say there was a faint grin on his face, kind of playful, as though the Knot wasn’t his enemy at all, but an old pal just playing a little trick on him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anything to get out of this bathroom, to escape the sterile bandage smell, except it's always with me, the faint scent of bleach. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The steel made a faint click against the stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing fainter in the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A faint breath fanned the back of my neck. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, most are so unimaginably distant that their light reaches us as no more than the faintest twinkle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All the bad things that had happened over the last three days seemed to have come out of this book, and perhaps they were only a faint reflection of what still awaited her inside it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hope there’s no repeat of the recent carnival fainting incident—Courtney’s certainly too heavy for me to lift, and I only have a learner’s permit, so I couldn’t drive us back. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The FBI was learning, but it still had only the faintest idea of the enemy it faced on American soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw faint gray streaks appear in the east. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A little faint, but a stimulant . . ." His voice trailed off. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opens the flask, anoints me, while I seem to faint, with the authentic holy water used on the feet of the holy saint. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know what to feel when she saw her reflection in the faint morning light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then it all grew faint and fainter still until the only sounds were forest sounds. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The faint glow of the blade was just enough, to illuminate Annabeth’s frightened face and the mossy stone walls on either side of us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was very faint, and every few minutes he had to stop to cough and clear his throat. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The blade cast a faint bronze light over a very sad scene. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel a faint stir of excitement in my breast. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The army stood in long uneasy ranks for a moment, and then, with a soft sigh of sorrow, rose up in a faint gray mist and disappeared. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had got together a big bunch and was smelling their faint sickly scent when a sound at his back froze him, the unmistakable crackle of a foot on twigs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m gone faint listening to this. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Inside, the quilt on top of the opklapbed is wrinkled, with a faint depression in the middle. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then the boy thought he heard another familiar sound, a faint whine on the cabin porch. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can still hear the faint noise of Mas muffled cries outside, but I do not feel her pain. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The caged flowers blew with faint sighs of warning. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and what? Acted all faint every time something scary came around?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the men’s feet crunch away and then the purr of the cart growing fainter and fainter until it was gone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was touching the black horizon with a faint red tip. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they drink their wine and eat their meal, he admires the light on her face, the faint pale hairs that shine against the contours of her cheek. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of orange blossom is still faint in her hair, even underneath the stench of the dungeons. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dalton’s voice came tense and faint and Bigger wondered how much more of this he could stand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trout rose without haste, a shadow in faint wavering increase; again the little vortex faded slowly downstream. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the faint, cool kiss of sensuality when dew came on to my cheeks and shins as I ran down the wet green garden paths in the early morning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The piggy? Oh, terrible hunger pinches! Gurgi cannot remember. Was there a piggy? Gurgi is fainting and falling into the bushes, his poor, tender head is full of air from his empty belly.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was faint but definitely there.The sound of a woman singing some type of chant, not as far off as he thought at first. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She said, “I knowed it. Don’t seem like a haint or a dream would be fainting and crying much as you do. ’ Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He started to ask Pong more questions, but then they heard the faint sound of music. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Down here, in the temple’s literal bowels, there was no faint smell of ink and parchment, only the clashing smells of old wood, sweet hay, and mucked dung. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The only other sign of life is a faint light from Javier’s quarters in the back near the lab. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The heroines in books seemed to faint a lot, swaying genteelly onto a handy padded couch or into the convenient arms of some concerned suitor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When Mrs Whatsit sighed it seemed completely incomprehensible that through this bliss could come the faintest whisper of doubt. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked questions about what we had eaten and when, and what her behavior had been before she fainted. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And Will didn’t hear a word she said, but he noticed her hair and her smile and the faint smell of maple syrup when she was this close. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Buttercup’s eyes reflect the faint glow of the safety light over the door as he lies in the crook of Prim’s arm, back on the job, protecting her from the night. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A thousand miles up from the Atlantic, the river is still so broad that at high water the other side is only a faint dark line on the horizon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I said in faint disgust, “It must be difficult to serve him, if that’s the case.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whether discussing Herod slaughtering infants or Christ rising from the dead, her voice registered the same faint level of disapproval. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint, tinny sort of whistle was coming from somewhere. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His features have become uncertain and faint, like a photographic plate from which two pictures have been taken. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of running and falling water was loud, and the evening was filled with a faint scent of trees and flowers, as if summer still lingered in Elrond’s gardens. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It colored the nearby trees a faint violet, and glinted off the wall of mist that had gathered over the asphalt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They kept walking, soon in darkness again as they left the faint light bleeding around the edges of the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When the doors swung shut behind me it was as black as the inside of a sack, with only a faint hint of reddish sympathy light coming around the edges of the door behind me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Diana spoke so calmly, but I felt like I might throw up or faint. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Last night I found her leaning out when I woke up, and when I tried to wake her I could not; she was in a faint. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’m glad I did, because Connor pretended to faint when he saw me walking from the train station. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The faint flavour of the ghost of my grandfather hung in a friendly way about the place, house, garden and all.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the tightness inside her finally relaxed, she lay down on the earth, her cheek pillowed on her hand, staring slackly at the faint outlines of her mother’s tombstone in the dark. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam thought that he heard cries and wild shouting also, but the sound was faint, as if it came out of some distant cave. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His heart beat wildly; for a moment he was almost faint. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could now feel the faint weight of the snow on my head. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Dicey heard the faint notes of the piano. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint source of illumination, like a stream of billions of tiny particles, faintly glowing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally he gave a faint single rap, and Pepper—such was the compromising name of the avenging boy—announced “Mr. Gargery!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed normal except for faint reddish streaks running through them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before Thomas could answer, the faint memory of last night, before he fell asleep, came to him, Teresa’s words inside his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Everything was dead quiet, except the faint whirring sound of Romey snoring on the couch in the den. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A faint memory tried to escape the locked box within his mind—shadows on the walls when he was a kid, scaring him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s not a challenge. Those old video systems emit faint ion beams. Invisible to the naked eye, of course, but not with your iris-cam...” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The sun’s brilliance was startling; it made her feel faint. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He did not have the faintest idea what he was supposed to do next. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His shirt is just tight enough that I can see his collarbone and the faint depression between his shoulder muscle and his bicep. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The ice was solid under their feet, but as they walked farther, Pinmei could hear the faint whispers of water growing louder. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Inside, only a faint starlight shone through the windows. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hwin, stumbling and nearly fainting, was just entering the gate: Aravis still kept her seat but her back was covered with blood. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe...maybe it’s something you need to find out for yourself,” said Hermione with a faint air of clutching at straws. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I put a little starlight in them, but it is really quite faint: not enough, I am sure, to give away a clever thief like you. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now the first faint streaks of dawn were appearing in the east. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fires were still in places flaming red, guests were pouring out through the doors and Princess Noreena, hatted and faint, was being carried by her servants far from view. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Because this is not a house for the faint of heart.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom fainted in the kitchen of our house two weeks ago while she was packing our cookbooks for the move. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Beautifully colored, if this can be said, the blackness of her hair, the faint blush of her cheek, her lips. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a small window, a faint gleam appeared. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was so scared I nearly fainted at the thought of this total stranger managing to discover our wonderful hiding place. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment under the hot sun, she thought she might faint. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Harry yelled, raising his wand, blinking furiously to try and clear his vision, shaking his head to rid it of the faint screaming that had started inside it — I’m going to live with my godfather. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s water everywhere,” Charity says with a faint grin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nothing about Mendel’s early years suggested even the faintest glimmer of the revolutionary scientist who would later emerge. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would have a faint shadow of stubble on his jaw, waiting for a morning shave, or maybe the circles under his eyes would wash out in the low light. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the sounds were faint ones from distant traffic or from the humming of air conditioners up and down the block. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her complexion was a faint pink, and her eyes were a light blue, and although she gave an overall impression of paleness and delicacy, her alert expression and mobile features saved her from looking insipid. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, away on our left, I saw a faint flickering blue flame. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They lifted their hands, and Jesper saw the faintest red haze appear over him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Dust fall shone like a great pillar of faint light as it descended smoothly and never-endingly into the gulf. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hades allowed himself the faintest smile, but there was nothing cruel in his eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It doth not hurt,” whispered one faint voice. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z