swound

When my child heard this, she gave a cry of joy, and fell back in a swound with her head against the wall.

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

I poured out my tale at one breath and in one sentence, and when it ended my mother was in her swound.

Hereupon my poor child was torn from me, and I fell in a swound upon the steps.