Definitions
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- adverb in a giddy light-headed manner
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Examples
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I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger.
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Richard paid dearly for those hours of exposure: he lay in a high fever, moaning with pain and muttering light-headedly.
Ultima Thule 2003
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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."
Lesson to Learn Jordan, Penny 1997
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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."
Lesson to Learn Jordan, Penny 1997
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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."
Lesson To Learn Jordan, Penny 1997
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She felt much as she had done after her miscarriage, she recognised light-headedly, as though there was an empty space inside her which had previously been filled but, whereas with her miscarriage she had ached with pain over that emptiness, with this one there was a sense of release, of relief.
Yesterday's Echoes Jordan, Penny 1993
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Ha'kan'ta - the Moose Girl of the Wild Woods, she thought light-headedly.
Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990
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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.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger.
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"They are calling this afternoon for my fifteen thousand," said Bones, cackling light-headedly.
Bones in London Edgar Wallace 1903
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