Marco (now converted into a national museum), a series of frescoes, beginning towards 1443; in the first cloister is the Crucifixion with St Dominic kneeling; and the same treatment recurs on a wall near the dormitory; in the chapterhouse is a third Crucifixion, with the Virgin swooning, a composition of twenty life-sized figures - the red background, which has a strange and harsh effect, is the misdoing of some restorer; an "Annunciation," the figures of about three-fourths of life-size, in a dormitory; in the adjoining passage, the "Virgin enthroned," with four saints; on the wall of a cell, the "Coronation of the Virgin," with Saints Paul, Thomas Aquinas, Benedict, Dominic, Francis and Peter Martyr; two Dominicans welcoming Jesus, habited as a pilgrim; an "Adoration of the Magi"; the "Marys at the Sepulchre."   anvd [Please select]

He was on the verge of swooning.   anvd [Please select]

Flesh yielded amply amid rumpled clothes: whites of eyes swooning up.   anvd [Please select]

In terror he sat up in bed, almost swooning with agony.   anvd [Please select]

I nodded reassuringly, and stooping, lifted the swooning woman.   anvd [Please select]

Angela sank swooning in her father's arms.   anvd [Please select]

Excellent, for, child, now I come to think of it, I'm positively swooning with hunger.'   anvd [Please select]