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She felt so faint and dizzy that she had to sit.
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Subsequent observations with an infra-red telescope, which can see things that are too cool to shine with visible light, showed that it was a very faint star so faint that it is off the bottom of astronomers' scale of stellar classification.
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Many others, however, dismiss the compact with so much faint praise.
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I'm going to talk for a while. (Laughter.) You guys don't sit down because you don't have chairs. (Laughter.) But you guys all have to bend your knees a little bit so you don't faint.
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The book is rife with stoically related medical detail so vivid as to make the faint-hearted squirm.
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In those eight weeks the administrator will be working 18-hour days so it is not for the faint hearted.
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But in the darkened chapel it was so silent he could hear the faint sweet sibilance as knuckling flames consumed the wicks of the votive candles.
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Dr. Friedman surveyed the room, clearly attempting to make eye contact with the closest suspect, though unfortunately that suspect was Janey Filch, wall-eyed and so shy she looked ready to faint.
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So far, the stirrings are faint.
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Pure white stretching so far into the distance that its horizon revealed a faint curve of the Earth.
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It made a faint whine as it pulled away, delivering power so smoothly that it might as well have been gliding through interstellar space.
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The other objects were either too faint or blended with their neighbours or affected by other artefacts, so that accurate measurements were not possible.
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