vertiginous

• And then I was scooped up from the floor where I lay into a vertiginous, bone-rattling embrace by a grinning Kazan Atrabiades. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
• And perhaps it's all a touch too vertiginous, because it's during this section that the movie's focus blurs and its energy begins to dissipate. —  FSF,August2004
• So after a patient has been long confined to his bed, when he first attempts to walk, he finds himself vertiginous, and is obliged by practice to learn again the particular modes of the apparent motions of objects, as he walks by them 4. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• The effect was so vertiginous, apparently, that nobody noticed the new religion in the centre of the intellectual whirlpool. —  Back to Methuselah
• She thought, "To never know how to marry oneself in ideas and endeavors that bring new ideas into existence, to just claim another person's rotting flesh to not wander around lost and vertiginous--no I'm not one of the sorry herd You really won't stay?" —  Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

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