For the First Time in My Life
swooning to the floor of the hospital- I was committing a sin
- fantastically gilded and filagreed
- stifling fumes from the damp earth
- mute and inglorious
- would a number of men so dragged a corpse
For the first time in my life I was committing a sin, and I decided that I wanted to do it memorably, and commit the most fantastically gilded and filagreed sin in history, a sin that would leave battle-hardered surgeons mute and ingloriously swooning to the floor of the hospital where they would breathe deeply of the stifling fumes from the damp earth and wonderingly ask one another under what circumstances could or would a number of men so dragged a corpse as artfully as I, metaphorically speaking.
bonus points for using them all in one sentence!