Ha'kan'ta - the Moose Girl of the Wild Woods, she thought light-headedly. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
Richard paid dearly for those hours of exposure: he lay in a high fever, moaning with pain and muttering light-headedly. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
He left the theatre and walked light-headedly across Chowringhee and out into the starlit empty darkness of the Maidan, where presently he stumbled upon a wooden bench under a tree. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
Half an hour later, with the formalities complete, Sarah listened light-headedly as Laura Greig admitted, "I know it's silly, but I'm so glad that Henrietta is going to a good home.". From Wordnik.com. [Lesson To Learn]
"They are calling this afternoon for my fifteen thousand," said Bones, cackling light-headedly. From Wordnik.com. [Bones in London] Reference
With a mix of opportunism and testosterone, habitual chiders like James Dobson are swooning over Palin, light-headedly jostling to anoint and absolve. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
One day he went to see Imogene, and while Effie Bowen stood prattling to him as he sat waiting for Imogene to come in, he faded light-headedly away from himself on the sofa, as if he had been in his corner at the café. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Summer] Reference
He crept light-headedly down the brick walk with a feeling that the darkness was not half thick enough, though it was so thick that it hid from him a figure that leaned upon the gate and held it shut, as if forcibly to interrupt his going. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Patient Lovers] Reference
The plant seemed to be hesitating, but she coaxed it over the hill, and since then it had scarcely needed her hand; almost light-headedly it hurried into its summer clothes, and new buds broke out on it, like smiles, at the fascinating thought that there was to be a to-morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy and Grizel] Reference
The present held its tragedy so poignant as to overshadow that breathless terrifying moment when peace had come and found the firm with the sale of the Fairy Line of cargo steamers uncompleted, contracts unsigned, and shipping stock which had lived light-headedly in the airy spaces, falling deflated on the floor of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Bones in London] Reference
I spoke to her light-headedly. From Wordnik.com. [Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain] Reference
But for the most part, those pictures Hollywood thought would endure (Metro’s lofty movies from the 1930s, Warner Brothers’ ponderous “artistically ambitious” Paul Muni biopics of Socially Progressive men) are now far overshadowed by the studio era’s stylish entertainments, whether rollicking (My Man Godfrey), effervescent (Trouble in Paradise), light-headedly lovely (the Fred and Ginger movies, the highest and purest “art” Hollywood ever produced), hard-boiled (Double Indemnity), or high-trash melodramatic (Dark Victory) — movies no one thought would be watched in 10 years, let alone 70. From Wordnik.com. [Toiling in the Dream Factory] Reference
But after all, he thought (light-headedly), at this time of night. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
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