swound

• “In this ice-sounding, noise similizes the assault: swound is a ghost of sound,”

  Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound

• “Like noises in a swound is not after anything so mundane as mimesis.”

  Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound

• “It was a very hard seat which Mr. Jeffreys had vacated, and her ladyship, after sitting there over two hours, nodding asleep a good part of the time, began to feel internal sinkings and flutterings which presaged what she called a "swound," and necessitated recourse to a crystal flask of strong waters which she had prudently brought in her muff.”

  London Pride Or When the World Was Younger

• “And (we may well wonder in reflex) what the hell is that swound flaunted for reference?”

  Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound

• “For his retro-ballad of 1798, Coleridge recalls swound as a forgotten sound, an archaeology unearthed: it's swoon old-form (same etymology), [14] and (even better!) a variant of sound.”

  Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound

• “Children, shee fell downe in a swound uppon the shore.”

  The Decameron

• “Sorrow and rage, shame, and his honors pride, Choking his soule, madly compeld him raue, Vntil his rage with vigor did confound His heauie hart; and left him in a swound.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “He sits all the time like an old woman in a swound.”

  Uncle Silas

• “A silence that was like a swound fell on the instant, and the light within went out at a puff.”

  John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

• “What was in my mind most when I was not altogether in the swound of wearied flesh was the spae-wife's story of the girl in”

  John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

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