This is not for the faint of heart.

Faint footprints in the dust lead off to the east.

Behind the palace, unobserved and free, / there stood a door, a secret thoroughfare / through Priam's halls. Here poor Andromache / while Priam's kingdom flourished and was fair, / to greet her husband's parents would repair / alone, or carrying with tendance fain / to Hector's father Hector's son and heir.

I thought I was going to faint.

When he bit me, it was so painful that I fainted.

I wonder why Tom fainted.

Tom began to feel faint.

Mary fainted.

One day in early spring he had so far relaxed as to go for a walk with me in the Park, where the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon the elms, and the sticky spear-heads of the chestnuts were just beginning to burst into their five-fold leaves.

After washing, the cat's fur is soft and fluffy, and has a faint scent.