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'swounds
[ zwoundz, zoundz, zwoondz ]
swounds
/ zwa蕣ndz; za蕣ndz /
interjection
- archaic.less common spellings of zounds
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Example Sentences
鈥淟o, here weeps Hecuba, here Priam dies, Here manly Hector faints, here Troilus swounds, Here friend by friend in bloody charnel lies, And friend to friend gives unadvis猫d wounds, And one man鈥檚 lust these many lives confounds; Had doting Priam check鈥檇 his son鈥檚 desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.鈥
Over streams and fallen trees, and chinquepin ridges; through bogs and myrtle thickets and miles of grape vines鈥攕wounds! but it was hot work!
"I suppose that's what you've been expecting me to do鈥攆aint all over the place鈥攕wounds and vapours," she said, laughing faintly.
No kindly angel whispered to her that she should go in, now, for "swounds and vapours," and thus bolster up the protectiveness that had come to birth within him that night.
She knew nothing of "swounds and vapours."
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