Muir's beautiful version of Gray's Elegy, and the Dizzypamphlet on the crisis.
Dizzy said very little," he wrote to a friend, "and that merely as a politician, on the possibilities in the House of Lords.
M152) Next came the autumn cabinets, with all their embarrassments, so numerous that one minister tossed a scrap across the table to another, "We ought to have impeached Dizzy for not taking office last spring.
Events for a week--one of the great critical weeks of the century--moved at a dizzy speed towards the abyss.
The other side was quite precipitous; but a narrow fissure in the rock afforded a scanty footing, down which the Indian glided, Tom following him, although dizzy with the height.
He went to his bell dubiously, something in the dizzy abyss he called his mind that half convinced him he had rung it already.
Ah, they were the proud, proud men, their heads dizzy with glory and last night's wine, their tread on air.
Of all the dizzy tricks----" Carol derided herself.
New acquaintances, new scenes, new studies, and new instructors came with such rapidity that the girls were dizzy with it all.
After the hush, the gentleness of Paradise, it was like being thrown, dizzy and bewildered, among the traffic and turmoil of a great city.
From which it will be seen that the idea of "home" crept already into her dizzy head and attracted her strangely.
He stood upon a dizzy height, but custom had staled the peril of his employment, and, in this aspect, fear was unknown to him.
Yet dizzy with the august rapture, he resisted and defied the god.
His fingers tightened their hold, as if to grasp thought by holding the dizzy aching head that contained it.
When he took me for his wife, a sort of dizzy enchantment overwhelmed me.
Vogt leaned against the slope of the hill, resting his dizzy head in his hands.
They practiced the forward pass until they were dizzy and seemed to see ten balls flying over the field instead of one.
Bruised and dizzy but smiling, Bert rose to his feet.
For he was like one who had heedlessly climbed far up a dizzy precipice,--too far to descend safely, while he had no sure hold where he was.
Do you s'pose it makes the birds sick and dizzyevery time they make a swoop?
Then sense and hearing and consciousness itself were lost in a roar as of all the elements let loose--a great dizzy upheaving as of an earthquake.
He had something of the dizzy feeling of one who has fallen from a great height, and has not yet got the giddiness of the movement out of his head.
He was quite dizzy with hunger and a dull feeling of shame.
And whenever the brave townsfolk made the journey, something of its dizzy quality remained with them.
He reached up and picked it out of the air on Pomeroy's twenty-five yard line, being hit before he could move by Dizzy Fox.
He saw now that Dizzy Fox, Pomeroy's star backfield man, was bearing rapidly down on him.
The coach would probably discount the runs he had made while impersonating Pomeroy's star back, Dizzy Fox.
Dizzy Fox then dropped back to his five yard line to punt.
I have had enough; between sack and singing, my head is as mazed as a dizzy sheep.
The very power of observing wears out under the rush of ever new objects; and the dizzy spectator is fain at last to shut the eyes of his soul, and take refuge (as West Indian Spaniards do) in tobacco and stupidity.
X HOW cool is the moonless summer night, how sweet After the noise and the dizzy choking heat!
The whole town is built on hills surrounded by dizzy precipices.
DELHI AND AGRA From Simla we go down by train through hundreds of tunnels and round the sharpest curves, over countless bridges and along dizzy precipices, to the lowlands of the Punjab.
Far up the hills she led me, where one ledge Thrust out a slender finger to the sky, Dizzy and swaying as an eagle's cry; Semiramis stepped to the farthest edge.
When I raised my head from the pillow the pain was even more severe than on the previous evening, and a dizzy faintness seized me when I tried to rise.
First, you keep me so low in the valley of humiliation that I well nigh lose heart, and then you hoist me on a pedestal, making me grow dizzy with conceit.
In my excitement, when awakening, I had started to my feet, but with difficulty maintained my position; for my head was dizzy with the sudden start from sound sleep, together with the unaccustomed hour for traveling.
For a dizzymoment the girl stared at him, then, though her flushed cheeks had whitened pitifully and her lip trembled, she answered with bravely lifted head.
Their own sense of the Scripture (such is the dizzy whirl which their excited feelings produce) must be the word of God, because THEY cannot find another.
To such dizzy heights of Theology do Trinitarians who abjure Reason in religion carry their reasonings upon the nature of God, and look into the dread profound, and speak confidently, as if they understood it all.
She was simply gazing at another woman attempting those dizzywhirls which, under the sway of her own genius, had once attracted the applause of a different crowd from this.
As I have just said, my one thought, my only thought in that dizzy descent, was to save her.
Joan got up, a little dizzy and unsteady upon her feet.
Joan got up to the window, dizzy and sick with the resurging memory of Jim's return to Kells with that gold-belt.
She had just strength left to get to her room, where she fell upon the bed, weak and trembling and dizzy and unutterably grateful at her deliverance from the hateful, unbearable falsity of her situation.
He threw open the door and went out, but the light and the fresh air turned him dizzy and blind for the moment; he staggered to a bench, and had to sit there some time before he recovered.
Egholm felt calm and strong now, no longer dizzy as he had been during the morning.
I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought: In troth, I'm like to greet.
