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swound
[ swound, swoond ]
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When my child heard this, she gave a cry of joy, and fell back in a swound with her head against the wall.
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A silence that was like a swound fell on the instant, and the light within went out at a puff.
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I poured out my tale at one breath and in one sentence, and when it ended my mother was in her swound.
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Hereupon my poor child was torn from me, and I fell in a swound upon the steps.
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