giddy-paced

The air was grave as well as sweet; for Mercy was of an old Puritan stock, and even her songs were not giddy-paced, but solid, quaint, and tender: all the more did they reach the soul.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866

Perhaps in another year or two, these giddy-paced dances will be "out of style" and in their stead will be solemn, slow dances more graceful and stately than even the minuet of yore.

Book of Etiquette, Volume 2

Occasionally his notes give some slight indication of his method of treatment, as for instance this, on _The Dowie Dens of Yarrow_: "The editor found it easy to collect a variety of copies; but very difficult indeed to select from them such a collated edition as might in any degree suit the taste of 'these more light and giddy-paced times.'"

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature

QUOTATION: These most brisk and giddy-paced times.

Quotations

I have a young acquaintance to make known to you, who is touched with some stain of a better spirit than belong to these giddy-paced times, reveres his elders, and has a pretty notion of the classics.

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In these brisk and giddy-paced times it is difficult to realize the difficulties which then beset British commanders warring in the

William Pitt and the Great War

The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.

Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters

He ascended, with giddy-paced haste, the windy range of rocks to where they had sat, felt and peered about the stones and crannies, but Elfride's stray jewel was nowhere to be seen.

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Brisk and giddy-paced times, 75. as a bee in conversation, 369.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

There is no trial of courage which will bear comparison with that of a man whose own opinions stand in opposition, upon fearful question of passion, to those of the "giddy-paced" and excited

Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.