1.   But as she walked through her house showing off her estate sale treasures, everything from Hummel figurines to a fainting couch, she grew more and more animated.

2.   But now the froufrou era, redolent of red-velvet fainting couches and prim, corseted ladies, captured his fancy.

3.   It was an age of repressive morality and the fainting couch.

4.   Legend says Goya painted a young wife reclining naked upon a fainting couch and then quickly created a clothed version when her husband showed up at the studio unexpectedly.

5.   The thought of returning to the murky depths of the Zaccaro finances sends me to my fainting couch.

6.   With its Arp-like biomorphic shell, its asymmetrical curves, this is the modern equivalent of a Victorian fainting couch.

7.   Will Bob Dole get the vapors and collapse on a fainting couch?

8.   Within the embrace of the bookshelf walls stands a Victorian fainting couch.