The large, electric, light-gray eyes were hardly ever in repose; all varieties of expression followed each other over the plastic, ever-changing face, with a
giddy rapidity which left sober analysis far behind in the race.
These thoughts, and a hundred other such thoughts, turned me burning hot, and made me
giddy with apprehension and dismay.
I was dreadfully frightened, and so
giddy that I clung to him with both hands, and said, "If you would kindly please to let me keep upright, sir, perhaps I shouldn't be sick, and perhaps I could attend more.
Gertrude had to concentrate all her energy to conceal from him that she was
giddy.
And I had hardly moved before the boat, giving up at once her gentle dancing movement, ran straight down a slope of water so steep that it made me
giddy, and struck her nose, with a spout of spray, deep into the side of the next wave.
And she would drag him up above the clouds, in the magnificent disorder of the grid, where she loved to make him
giddy by running in front of him along the frail bridges, among the thousands of ropes fastened to the pulleys, the windlasses, the rollers, in the midst of a regular forest of yards and masts.
We were furrowing the waters of the Indian Ocean, a vast liquid plain, with a surface of 1,200,000,000 of acres, and whose waters are so clear and transparent that any one leaning over them would turn
giddy.
I felt
giddy and incapable of facing the return journey.
Suddenly he arose, lifted his hand to his brow as if his brain wore
giddy, paced twice or thrice round the dungeon, and then paused abruptly by the bed.
Capricious, variable, close,
giddy, free, prudish, a virgin armed with claws, Erigone stained with grapes, she sometimes overturned, with a single dash of her white fingers, or with a single puff from her laughing lips, the edifice which had exhausted Malicorne's patience for a month.
As they crept cautiously on, leading their solitary pack-horse along these
giddy heights, they all at once came to where the river thundered down a succession of precipices, throwing up clouds of spray, and making a prodigious din and uproar.
By the assistance of some rudely constructed machinery, the heavily laden basket was now carefully lowered down among the multitude; and, from the
giddy pinnacle, the Romans were seen gathering confusedly round it; but owing to the vast height and the prevalence of a fog, no distinct view of their operations could be obtained.