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The valley at our feet was so deep that the eye became giddy in following the downward line of the vertical precipice of rock.
As he stood on the giddy ledge, rapt in contemplation, an event occurred which was fitted to deepen the solemnity of his thoughts.
I was then so giddy and light and thoughtless, everything presented itself to me in such gay colors, I scarcely believed in sorrow.
The greatest actors, the greatest singers, and the greatest dancers were allured to the giddy capital, never so gay before or since.
Perhaps you have been a little thoughtless and giddy; and these are faults which I cannot with truth say you were ever free from.
In many places we had to scramble through the same dense forest, along the verge of giddy precipices which overhung the river.
At the same time, this love, notwithstanding the difference of age, was not, on his side, the giddy result of too much ardor.
Heaven knows that pedagogic room was no place for visions, nor were those athletic young men fit companions for a soul gone giddy.
I stumbled out of the old dark, close-shuttered house into the burning brilliancy of the August day, giddy with passion and with hope.
Once his gaze encountered the grinning skull above the mantel, and, to his giddy senses, it seemed to wink with its hollow sockets.
She exclaimed, giddy with amazement at finding the boy who had been the autocrat of childhood's games grown into a man of power.
Taking his course unerringly, the chief led them in single file along a narrow giddy footpath zigzagging up the face of the cliff.
Osborne, whose evenings in this dim room between the two old people were passed in an endless monotony which sometimes made her giddy.
I feared he would confide in me the secrets of his heart, which is at present mostly occupied with his handsome and giddy wife.
Why, the instructions and sisterly advice and editorial improvements poured into the ears of patient Lark would have made an archangel giddy with confusion!
As the giddy throng flowed past below them whistling and hooting and laughing, he felt her arm laid on his almost anxiously.
Presently our boat turned round and round as in a giddy whirlpool; I know not whether it was upset, or whether I fell overboard.
Yes, that is the sort of glee that comes over men when they dance on the edge of a precipice; they make themselves giddy.
He speaks of giddy precipices where only rugged slopes can be found, and one would certainly have expected the site to have been larger.
Eyes sparkling, cheeks flushing, and gauzy draperies floating by; while the crowds outside gather in a ring, and watch the giddy revel.
They would not care for the contempt of the giddy and unthinking, if they could retain the esteem of the thoughtful and wise.
We must soar still higher, and though we may feel giddy and disgusted, we must sit out this tragedy till the curtain falls.
It goes before an inshore gale, and lifts us high, turns us giddy with a sudden betrayal and descent; and does it again, and again.
Sick and giddy, George Harrington rose painfully to his feet, and staggered to the door, for a wild cry rang through the house.
Burke felt very unwell, having been attacked by dysentery since eating the snake; he now felt giddy and unable to keep his seat.
It was not a dazzling or giddy height to which to aspire; but to Ida just now it seemed the topmost pinnacle of social success.
On one place, the giddy members of the household have a very rowdy time of it, and make things very lively for the unwary.
My head is still giddy with mountains and precipices; and you can't imagine how much I am pleased with the sight of a plain.
Lock succeeds lock, mighty gates close them, and the large vessel rises miraculously to the giddy heights in a wildly romantic country.
This, that not merely was he a pauper and a giddy head, but a venomous reptile, ever ready to sting the hand feeding him.
And, as you stand on this giddy pinnacle, looking over New York to the far horizons, you find your mind charged with enormous questionings.
She panted, her heart was beating furiously, and the blood rushed to her temples, and then ebbed away again, leaving her giddy.
Those giddy precipices on which the sky seems to lean as you stand below were the foam-lashed sides of a full and mighty river.
Once he looked down at the floor of the rotunda so far below and became giddy with the distance and the thought of falling.
The strongest nerve turned sick and giddy to look beneath, and the side of the tower overlooking it was almost always kept unguarded.
Ever since he had been there, he had choked more and more; his hands and chest and face were afire, and he felt quite giddy.
Then the memory of a half-caught phrase she had overheard flashed across her mind: "If you feel giddy, always look up, not down."
The heaving waters made him giddy to look at, and he gazed for preference at a thin line of coast stretching away in the distance.
He felt rather weak and giddy, but he got to his writing desk and there poured out his repentant soul in a letter to Donald.
At this a peculiar giddy feeling came over the watcher, there was a strange singing in his ears, and he stood there as if stunned.
Only she might fly up there and be unable to come down again, or she might become giddy and tumble before she reached a bough.
The American girl, who appears to us French so giddy, and even fast, seems to me to act according to the dictates of common sense.
You think perhaps, mother, that I am not unhappy; while I am giddy and play foolish pranks, you believe me to be happy and contented.
Though still giddy from the effects of the whirling waters, I rose slowly to my feet, and found that I could stand upright.
I do not expect to dwell on this giddy moral altitude long; perhaps in a week the old imperious impulse will have resumed full dominion.
Then, she was a pretty giddy girl; now, she was a beauty, a woman who had attained the utmost development of her loveliness.
And, giddy from passion and the fumes of his last night's wine, he turned abruptly, and made a circuit of the Parliament Square.
It is no passing fancy of a giddy, dazzled girl, but the deep strong passion of a woman almost in the middle of her life.
Her eyes were so dazzled, her head so giddy, her senses so faint, that everything swam round her, and there that strange vision recurred.
He had his shoulders planted against a pillar of the portico, and had fallen into a brown study, staring in upon the giddy throng.
On looking down, I became giddy, and recoiling to the middle of the landing, I hastened down the passageway which led to the Castle.
We had been shooting for about five weeks, when one morning, as we were riding side by side, I felt all at once giddy and unwell.
She is giddy, fantastic, and vain, and altogether devoid of a due sense of your condescension in placing her at the head of your splendid establishment.
They cannot be read, it is believed, by even the giddy and the thoughtless without feeling an interest in the destiny of their writers.
You are like a man who has had a blow, who staggers about giddy and dazed, and sees the pavement rising up to strike him.
Then with a little lurch as though still giddy, she stooped, and picking up her fallen cigarette, thrust it defiantly between her teeth.
Roland could not answer; everything was giddy and confused in his thoughts, and the young dogs seemed to be whirling round and round.
She knew no words with which to stop her fiery steeds, and presently sank, breathless and giddy, into the bottom of the sleigh.
We speak glibly about white, and we soar with it to giddy, dreamy heights, but we speak and mostly dream of color not of white.
Let us, who are mortal and fallible, be wary how we condemn one whose head was rendered giddy by his very pinnacle of power!
As I sat tracing her charms on my canvas, with my eyes occasionally riveted on her features, I drank in delicious poison that made me giddy.
A single glance was sufficient to show that a change had come over these two young women, since the giddy days of their girlhood.
Such a crowd of thoughts, hopes, dreads, rushed into his mind that the whirl and jostle of them in his brain made him giddy.
Why, they grew sick to death of the giddy whirl, where each man knocked aside his neighbor, and there was none to say "Forbear!"
I hauled at the release lever, felt a long moment of giddy disorientation as the escape capsule separated from the sinking lifeboat deep under the surface.
His brain was giddy with undefined horror and once or twice he started and raised his head imagining that Griselda was calling to him.
The world turns round, and his head with it, like a round-about at a fair, till he becomes stunned and giddy with the motion.
Then, after spending some time and most of their money in the giddy whirl of that capital, they return to their homes and recover.
It was a waste of his time to conduct flippant young men and giddy girls who made a noisy and irreverent lark of the expedition.
As yet you stand secure on the giddy height to which you have climbed; as yet you look down disdainfully on the dangers now gathering around you.
It is falling into ruins, though its towers still rise boldly from the edge of the precipice, overhanging at a giddy height the valley below.
A fly that does not waste the day in giddy dances and the fervid waltz, but undergoes family incidents with decorum and discretion.
He twisted as if to face the opposite way in an elevator and then became giddy when the entire concept of his surroundings did a ninety-degree flop.
It appears in two forms, either as a definite sense of movement of self (subjective vertigo) or of objects (objective vertigo), or merely as a giddy feeling.
The giddy whirl, after continuing for about a dozen turns, is then reversed in direction, and each performance usually occupies from one to two minutes.
This he resolutely professes himself unable to do, and begs to be allowed to leave it and plunge into the giddy vortex of the multiplication table.
She felt spent and giddy, as from chasing round and round in an ever-shifting circle some tormenting, cleverly lovely thing which perpetually eluded her.
We have but too often occasion to notice, with censure, the licentious manners of the giddy court of Charles; let us not omit its merited commendation.
Who can be giddy and careless with darkened streets, trains, trams, all telling of the awful possibilities of the new development of aerial warfare?
Yes, this was the goal he must aim at and grasp as soon as possible, before his span was run in a ceaseless and giddy whirl.
As for the giddy young ones, they tried to laugh, though the solemnity of the occasion was greater than they could have supposed possible.
I leave it to them to work out the wherefore, which makes me giddy even to think of, considering the geographical elements involved in the problem.
Do not get one that is young, if she is giddy and thoughtless and inexperienced, nor one that is old, if she is deaf and stupid.
He stood giddy and miserable on the edge of this precipice, feeling that he did not dare to take any further step one way or another.
When our little boat touched the American shore, the question arose as to which method would be the best to adopt in ascending the giddy height.
A form stood at the brow of the mountain, on the very edge of the giddy height, with uplifted arms, in an awful attitude of menace.
She tried to control her face, to speak in a careless and indifferent voice, but she was giddy, and the room whirled before her eyes.
With the cessation of the steamer's movement, he felt the heat radiate round him, in an overpowering wave, making him feel rather sick and giddy.
We walked through the blackened hall out upon the still firm floor of the gallery, or balcony, overlooking at a giddy height the lower town.
As to the hint which Martha Thomas had thrown out, it is enough to say that Nest was very giddy, and that she was motherless.
Our traveler was stunned by the shock, and made giddy by the wild vaulting of the car as it leaped down the embankment to destruction.
Her head turned giddy, the crowd seemed to surge and close about her, and with a sense of utter failure and homesickness she fainted away.
At last, after long intervals of giddy suspense, I reached the top, or almost reached it; I clutched the crumbling peak with my hooked fingers.
Dreams, too, he had of a giddy throng who scoffed at the dark-eyed girl, calling her by the name which he himself had given her.
The nurses had so long been accustomed to the motion of the ship that they now felt a little giddy and unsteady on their feet.
He clutched hard at a table near him, but it receded from his grasp and he felt himself falling down, down, down in giddy helplessness.
If by chance your eyes should light upon one of the creatures they call their officials, let not their gaudy tinsel turn your giddy brains.
Arrived at the summit, I became giddy upon looking down the precipice I had climbed, and my heart shuddered at the danger I had escaped.
As to the hint which Martha Thomas had thrown out, it is enough to say that Nest was very giddy, and that she was motherless.
Heaving and giddy with exertion, we saw a wonderful sight, a great tawny, buff-colored body crouched on a limb, grace and power in every outline.