vertigo

• The only thing that kept her from slipping into blind-flight vertigo was the faint band of light that was Denver — in the far distance in front of them. —  The Coffin Dancer
• I'm all right now He made a brave effort, and the two lads walked toward the lane, but, before they had gone many yards, Vane reeled again This time the vertigo was slighter, and, taking Distin's arm, he kept his feet Let's walk on," he said. —  The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
• Now there is an angel before his eyes The young girl has ceased speaking; and as the vertigo, caused by his sudden uprising, has cleared away from his brain, he begins to believe in the reality of the objects around him The shock of surprise has imparted a momentary strength that soon passes; and his feebleness once more returning, he would fall back to the earth did he not clutch hold of the yucca, whose stiff blades sustain him Valga me Dios_!" —  The Lone Ranche
• To-day the vertigo is more pronounced than usual; especially with the hair like this. —  The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
• And when first we go on ship-board, where the movements of ourselves, and the movements of the large waves are both new to us, the vertigo is almost unavoidable with the terrible sickness, which attends it. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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