fainting-fits

I was subject to fainting-fits, attended with fever,—for my health was always weak.

Saint Jerome with Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium 2009

He had previously been liable to fainting-fits; but never had he lost consciousness so completely and for so long.

The Torrents of Spring 2006

When Justin, who was rearranging his dress, had gone, they talked for a little while about fainting-fits.

Madame Bovary 2003

I recovered her with great difficulty from one of the most obstinate fainting-fits I ever remember to have met with.

No Name 2003

Though far from strong, and troubled occasionally with those fainting-fits already mentioned, she went about her work modestly and uncomplainingly, doing it carefully, and doing it well.

The Moonstone 2003

Trained to a fashionable young ladyhood of delicacy, vapors and graceful fainting-fits, there had been little in her married life to build up fortitude and the courage to endure unwelcome griefs.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

Louis XIII fell into an armchair furnished with pillows, asked for and drank a glass of cordial, prepared to strengthen him against the frequent fainting-fits caused by his malady of languor, signed to all to leave the room, and, alone with Richelieu, he said in a languid voice:

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Her, person was slender and delicate, to which a good complexion and large motionless eyes gave at a distance an appearance of beauty, that vanished upon nearer inspection: she affected to lisp, to languish, and to have two or three fainting-fits a day.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

It is said that he was tall, of a fair complexion, round limbed, rather full faced, with eyes black and piercing; and that he enjoyed excellent health, except towards the close of his life, when he was subject to sudden fainting-fits, and disturbance in his sleep.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

It is said that he was tall, of a fair complexion, round limbed, rather full faced, with eyes black and piercing; and that he enjoyed excellent health, except towards the close of his life, when he was subject to sudden fainting-fits, and disturbance in his sleep.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus