"Dizzy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Madelon. She stood up with sudden decision. "I want to see you a minute," she said to Jim. Then she turned to Mrs. Otis. "I don't need anything to take," said she. "I was only a little dizzy for a minute when I came into this warm room. I feel better now. I only want to ask your son a question, then I must ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... Leans o'er it, while the years pursue Their course, unable to abate Its paradisal laugh at fate! One morn,—the Arab staggers blind O'er a new tract of death, calcined To ashes, silence, nothingness,— And strives, with dizzy wits, to guess Whence fell the blow. What if, 'twixt skies And prostrate earth, he should surprise The imaged vapor, head to foot, Surveying, motionless and mute, Its work, ere, in a whirlwind rapt It vanished up again?—So ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... in the forms which we now see, it would have been a miracle. We marvel and admire as we gaze upon them now; we do more, we have to speculate as to how it was all done by the blind, unintelligent forces. Giant stairways, enormous alcoves, dizzy, highly wrought balustrades, massive vertical walls standing four-square like huge foundations—how did all the unguided erosive forces do it? The secret is in the structure of the rock, in the ...
— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs
... prepared for what followed. Instead of continuing his flight horizontally at the end of that headlong dive, this tyro pulled up his elevator, sweeping through a sharp curve into an upward leap with all the dizzy impetus ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... better be wishin' yourself an early death! Because, even if a body dies to this world, they do say that he passes into rest. Then you don't have to live an' draw breath no more.—How did it go with little Kurt Flamm? I've clean forgot ... I'm dizzy ... I'm forgettin' ... I've forgotten everythin' ... life's that hard ... If I could only keep on feelin' this way ... an' never wake up again ...! What's the reason o' such things comin' to pass ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann
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