Adjective, : a heady wine. ,heady perfume. ,the heady news of victory. ,heady conduct. ,heady winds. ,a heady scheme to win the election. From Dictionary.com.
Tempted headily by the male tang of his skin, she kissed his chest. From Wordnik.com. [Rekindled]
I simply had no idea that such a headily-scented plant could suddenly produce fruit like this in the autumn. From Wordnik.com. [Hedge Fund] Reference
A good quality Ylang Ylang essential oil should smell creamy, fruity, tenacious, and headily floral but in a very pleasant way. From Wordnik.com. [Flower of Flowers] Reference
The Separation is an excellent, headily atmospheric novel that forces the reader to think about what they are reading carefully. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
The story is played out in a succession of vividly coloured, headily intense visuals which are often far more revealing than the dialogue. From Wordnik.com. [Duel in the Sun (1946)] Reference
"I-- don't -- care --" he was beginning headily, but she wrenched her hands free, and, eluding him, plunged into the excited group at the other end of the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers] Reference
It is headily fragrant with the scents of cinnamon, ground cloves and ginger, tart from the Granny Smith apples I used, and rich from the meltingly soft pumpkin. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
We don't find out the truth about Eric's Iraq experience until the final three chapters, which are headily Conradian in their willingness to confront the very heart of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: The Tangled Roots of the Terror Psychology: J. Robert Lennon's Novel "Castle"] Reference
The revelation in the hall at Vivers came about full circle, from illusion to reality, from the girl to the woman, as then it had spun headily backward from the woman to the girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Confession of Brother Haluin]
With its headily urban recasting of the myth, it was given even more splendour by leading you out onto Waterloo Bridge: one of my favourite views in London, especially very early in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
The warmth of his gratitude and pleasure filled the hut, and set the herbal fragrances stirring headily, because it would be he, and no other, who would come to fetch Godith away, more wildly and wonderfully than in any mere runaway marriage. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
As an Eau de Toilette, Diorissimo is a soliflore lily of the valley, in fact – the only one that I smelled so far that captures the scent of the crisp little white bells without smelling headily synthetic and develop into a flat, shallow nuisance on the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Last time I tried it a long time ago; as I said, samples stay in the To Review Box for years, awaiting their destiny, I found La Base, an homage to Switzerland, the Alps, and mountain flowers, to be simultaneously a little too aquatic-fresh and too overwhelmingly, headily floral. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Dwindling headily beneath them, the beaded strings of light of London - London, Arthur had to keep reminding himself, not the strangely coloured fields of Krikkit on the remote fringes of the galaxy, lighted freckles of which faintly spanned the opening sky above them, but London - swayed, swaying and turning, turned. From Wordnik.com. [So long, and thanks for all the fish]
"It is my turn to ask favors," the duke said headily. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Stair A Novel] Reference
Do you focus so headily on bodily disciplines that you lose sight of spiritual values?. From Wordnik.com. [Church Marketing Sucks] Reference
Had they not been headily carried on by passion and prejudice, they would never have passed this rash sentence. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09.] Reference
Rémy Martin Coeur de Cognac, 40%vol, France (£37.99; Selfridges & selected Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco) or headily aromatic. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Among English non-fiction writers of his generation, none ranged more headily through infinitely diverse realms of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Bunches of beautiful, headily-scented roses for only R10 a pop - it seemed almost too good to be true (but I certainly wasn't complaining). From Wordnik.com. [Mother City Living] Reference
Survival has meant flexibility and speed of adaptation; over the past 30 years few industries have evolved as quickly-indeed as headily and joyously-as IT. From Wordnik.com. [Channel Insider - RSS Feeds] Reference
"I love you," I said headily, "I love you, and I want you for my wife," and, seeing the highness of the absurdity that my first words to her should be a proposal of marriage, I cried. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Stair A Novel] Reference
But, while I have no difficulty in believing that two old folk could fall headily in love, I find it hard to credit that this would lead to a murderous collision between the NHS and private wards of a very English care home. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
So, with rain in the air, I went forward once more; not quite so headily, perhaps, yet, I hope, with undiminished courage, like all earth's travellers before me, who have deemed truth potent as modesty, and themselves worth scanning print after. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] Reference
Craigengelt had his own purposes in fooling him up to the top of his bent; and having some low humour, much impudence, and the power of singing a good song, understanding besides thoroughly the disposition of his regained associate, he headily succeeded in involving him bumper-deep in the festivity of the meeting. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
Through streets in which the village quiet of the summer night was undisturbed save by the spattering tinkle of the lawn sprinklers in the front yards, and the low voices of the out-door people taking the air and the moonlight on the porches, Griswold fared homeward, the blood pounding in his veins and the fine wine of life mounting headily to his brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Price] Reference
Turns out the deadbeat kids didn’t show up on the job until 4 pm on Sunday, by which time I headily involved in other activities, the jobsite was locked up tighter than Dick's hatband, they broke into the jobsite and set off the burglar alarm which summoned police and ... things went steadily downhill. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
The act seemed headily dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Destiny's Road]
The spring fire tingles through him headily. From Wordnik.com. [On Hampstead Heath] Reference
But the Captain answered headily; "No, sir!. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavalier] Reference
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