ROBERT GREGORY BROWNE: There was a certain giddiness I felt the first time out that has all but disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [Who’s Thrilling You Now? –The New Guns of the Thriller Genre; an Author Panel] Reference
In the Balkan peninsula giddiness is unknown, and people start you along any ledge at height cheerily and recklessly. From Wordnik.com. [High Albania] Reference
I'm not sure the results are quite as bad as they look, but they're enough for me to temper my short-term giddiness ever-so slightly. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Be Faked-Out by Jobs and Sales Data - Yahoo! Finance] Reference
When he’s called on to be downbeat and serious, an out-of-character giddiness is prompted. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
"Looking back on those parties, I can recall the giddiness in the air, the extravagance, the excess," she writes. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com News] Reference
There is even a kind of giddiness, as the herd begins to thin. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
So I think the kind of giddiness that we had last summer is over. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2009] Reference
I drew up in a kind of giddiness, for that dreadful scent of death had touched me again. From Wordnik.com. [Poison Island] Reference
Even among the GOP's cynics, there's a kind of giddiness over John McCain's tactical daring in selecting the little-known. From Wordnik.com. [d r i f t g l a s s] Reference
I am to this mode of travelling, I cannot get over a kind of giddiness whenever a balloon passes us in a current directly overhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
No headache, but giddiness is troublesome at times. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
I am always afraid that your giddiness will evaporate. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Perhaps giddiness is not measured by horsepower alone. From Wordnik.com. [Just in: V6 Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang] Reference
For treatment of giddiness arising from the stomach see. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
A giddiness dimmed his vision, a singing filled his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
We sat on benches all over the city and talked with giddiness. From Wordnik.com. [Smiles Etched Into Stone] Reference
She felt a giddiness creeping over her; how close the air was. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Slowly a numbness crept up his limbs; a giddiness attacked him. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
It is hard to anticipate season two without a little giddiness. From Wordnik.com. [The ‘Odd Couple’ Meets ‘Jackass’] Reference
Anna's giddiness was merely that of youth; she settled down into. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Darby was staggering from giddiness and stumbling at every step. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
Save for a certain giddiness, he came out of the scramble safe and sound. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
My complaint was a giddiness in the head, brought on by riding in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
"So long as we do not stare into it too deeply the giddiness is bearable, enjoyable!.". From Wordnik.com. [Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom] Reference
When the dancers feel the approach of giddiness they reverse the whirl or move backward. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
Suddenly a giddiness came over me, as if someone seized me and was pulling me over the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
The silent giddiness soon wore off with the itchiness of the skin of his broken arm under the cast. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
They went staggeringly, not because of the weight, but by reason of the giddiness which assailed Paul. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Now it is trying to cope with the reality of re-unification, and that has put an end to the giddiness. From Wordnik.com. [Why The War Has Changed So Little] Reference
As Nicolas Sarkozy took in the political landscape on Bastille Day, he could be forgiven for his giddiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Grande Plan] Reference
On returning to herself she complained of giddiness, but said she had experienced none but agreeable feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Despite some giddiness over the exit polls earlier in the day, Kerry's own experts knew the numbers might be misleading. From Wordnik.com. [DOWN TO THE WIRE] Reference
After a momentary giddiness, you see the joke: the chimp is sitting, chin in hand, in the pose of Rodin's "The Thinker.". From Wordnik.com. [Truth, Beauty And The Double Helix] Reference
It was like being caught in a snow squall; I felt the same surprise and giddiness, and soon I heard myself laughing, and Kurosawa too. From Wordnik.com. [Record of a Living Being] Reference
She knew the grief of family which had aged, enlightened, and separated her to be bereft of the giddiness of youth and this was plenty. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
KATE BEATON and JULIA WERTZ: Fans lined up with geeked-out giddiness for the "Hark! A Vagrant" and "Fart Party" cartoonists (respectively). From Wordnik.com. ['HARK! A WINNER': 5 Highlights from this year's SPX convention] Reference
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