For Mr. Spokesly had of late discovered that a man can, in some curious subconscious way, keep his head in a swoon.
"Command"
William McFee
The heat was intense, and the prisoner could hardly breathe, so closely was she veiled; and once more she sank into a dreamy swoon, in which the realities of her condition were so commingled with fancy that she could not separate them, and her efforts to master her reason were growing vain, when she was roused by what she doubted to be real at first, but which proved to be the gruff voices of men speaking by her litter-side.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
Take him away- screamed the hostess, who had recovered from her swoon.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard