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  • To his credit, he then repeated the exercise, calling, "Again, upside down," but because of their insistence on a gravity that didn't exist, the boys became awkward when the maneuver was under, as if vertigo seized them.†   (source)
  • …had vanished from under me I'd felt drowned and extinguished by vastness—not just the predictable vastness of time, and space, but the impassable distances between people even when they were within arm's reach of each other, and with a swell of vertigo I thought of all the places I'd been and all the places I hadn't, a world lost and vast and unknowable, dingy maze of cities and alleyways, far-drifting ash and hostile immensities, connections missed, things lost and never found, and my…†   (source)
  • If I sat up too quickly, my head reeled and vertigo set in.†   (source)
  • I was filled with a thrilling sickness, like vertigo, like the fear of falling from some high place and wanting to fall at the same time.†   (source)
  • Tunnel vision gives way to vertigo.†   (source)
  • You can flit back and forth between these perceptions and experience a sort of mental vertigo.†   (source)
  • The ground spun in a dizzying circle, and vertigo clutched Eragon.†   (source)
  • We were doing extremely well when suddenly, while I was underneath the hull of the ship, I experienced vertigo and my brain turned into a vegetable.†   (source)
  • A sense of vertigo seeps in.†   (source)
  • The Hawking effect caused nausea, vertigo, headache, and hallucinations.†   (source)
  • Vertigo†   (source)
  • Mae attempted levity: "I guess you don't put anyone with vertigo up here."†   (source)
  • She had spent hours on elaborate murals of events from the past, images from the future she'd seen in prophecies, favorite quotes from books and music, and abstract designs so good they would have given M. C. Escher vertigo.†   (source)
  • Some Narcolombians were selling a bad batch of Vertigo.†   (source)
  • I feel, in passing, a kind of vertigo.†   (source)
  • Upstairs a British voice said: "There are forms of vertigo that do not include spinning."†   (source)
  • Sheer curiosity forced its way past terror and vertigo.†   (source)
  • Mack complied, and when he finally opened his eyes, the sight was so powerful that he experienced vertigo for a few seconds.†   (source)
  • He arose at the crack of dawn, when he began to take his secret medicines: potassium bromide to raise his spirits, salicylates for the ache in his bones when it rained, ergosterol drops for vertigo, belladonna for sound sleep.†   (source)
  • A late winter wind blew the tops around, inducing in her a momentary vertigo.†   (source)
  • Carrie drew in a startled, smothered gasp, and Tommy again felt (but for only a second) that weird vertigo in his mind (carrie carrie carrie carrie) that seemed to blank out all thought but the name and image of this strange girl he was with.†   (source)
  • The vertigo as I approached the bed, the trepidation.†   (source)
  • My foot slips on a particularly crumbly bit of stone, and I hug the cliff face until the vertigo sweeps past.†   (source)
  • For a moment I feel a hot flush of embarrassment, like nausea or vertigo.†   (source)
  • Through the topsy-turvy vertigo that slammed into me, I turned toward Zu, my eyes adjusting just enough to make out her silhouette.†   (source)
  • But as I moved, an odd wave of vertigo hit.†   (source)
  • He felt like he had vertigo.†   (source)
  • Vertigo, nausea.†   (source)
  • She would always remember the heavy animals, their slowness, their filthy tails hitting her in the face, the smell of dung, the horns grazing her, and the terrible sensation of emptiness in her stomach, of fantastic vertigo, of incredible excitement, a mixture of passionate curiosity and terror that she only felt again in a few fleeting moments of her life.†   (source)
  • Anyone whose goal is something higher must expect some day to suffer vertigo.†   (source)
  • I was still turning in that inner darkness, wondering why nausea had to be such a firm companion of vertigo.†   (source)
  • And she was the one who always had to do the climbing—her husband had terrible vertigo.†   (source)
  • He had a high fever and vertigo.†   (source)
  • Craig admitted to vertigo.†   (source)
  • For that reason, though not for that reason alone, he felt nearly all the time something akin to the sensation of flying: not vertigo or a feeling of motion, but an aura of lightness, disconnectedness, and quiet.†   (source)
  • They pressed him forward, down the stairs, and when he reached the platform he felt a twinge of vertigo as they steered him too close to the tracks.†   (source)
  • "Please don't let me fall," she says to an executioner, getting vertigo as she looks down on the crowd from atop the tall, unstable gallows.†   (source)
  • I ended up sleeping better that night than any other I could remember, with my old movie posters of Vertigo and Jaws and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas hanging on the walls around me and my too-long body making my feet stick out over the short wooden railing of the twin bed.†   (source)
  • I stayed in a darkened bedroom for eight hours at a time while the vertigo spun the bed.†   (source)
  • But he felt no more vertigo than one does in an aeroplane, for there was no sense of contact with the distant ground.†   (source)
  • I was so hungry that I had begun to salivate, and felt a touch of vertigo.†   (source)
  • The moment of vertigo passed, as a small black man came up the steps and across the porch wearing heeltaps on his shoes.†   (source)
  • She suffers vertigo from an inner ear infection.
  • I had another moment of vertigo and moved away from the window.†   (source)
  • I try again and another wave of vertigo unbalances me.†   (source)
  • Through the dizziness of vertigo, Clary groped for understanding.†   (source)
  • Vertigo and weakness return, then the pain.†   (source)
  • Vertigo washed over her as she stared upward at the pale towers, so far above.†   (source)
  • It is understood…… A series of vertigo-inducing images suddenly flashed through his mind.†   (source)
  • A wave of vertigo swamped her, and she squeezed her eyes shut, gasping with nausea.†   (source)
  • The whole scene was so familiar yet so completely alien that it gave Annabeth vertigo.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they'd walk right through her, leaving her with vertigo.†   (source)
  • A sense of vertigo gripped Eragon as he considered the implications.†   (source)
  • I was too busy trying not to die from vertigo.†   (source)
  • Frank leaned against a tree, trying to control his vertigo.†   (source)
  • Is it your shirt or tie that gives me vertigo?†   (source)
  • No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling.†   (source)
  • I felt vertigo in seeing my reflection moving independently of me.†   (source)
  • She felt attracted by their weakness as by vertigo.†   (source)
  • Sensing that the real reason calling her back to her mother was vertigo, Tomas opposed the trip.†   (source)
  • They exposed her powerlessness, which in turn led to vertigo, the insuperable longing to fall.†   (source)
  • She lived in a constant state of vertigo.†   (source)
  • We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak.†   (source)
  • These were her vertigo: she heard a sweet (almost joyous) summons to renounce her fate and soul.†   (source)
  • The window glass was perfectly translucent, providing such a complete illusion that there was nothing between the viewer and the view that it had been known to induce vertigo even in those unafraid of heights.†   (source)
  • The holotech off the side of the Cliff had been completely shut down, and the once-vertigo-inducing view had been transformed into simple black stucco.†   (source)
  • Some days, when she walked, she would feel tipsy, swaying side to side, needing to rest against walls as if struck by vertigo.†   (source)
  • Sheer vertigo.†   (source)
  • He summoned all his reserves of strength to overcome the vertigo of her implacable scrutiny, until she released it with childish unconcern as if she were tossing it into the trash.†   (source)
  • First notes of vertigo.†   (source)
  • It was a strange and unsettling sight, like he was standing at the edge of the universe, and for a brief moment he was overcome by vertigo, his knees weakening before he steadied himself.†   (source)
  • They pick their way down a broad corridor, excusing themselves every inch of the way as they step over little Mayan encampments and Buddhist shrines and white trash stoned on Vertigo, Apple Pie, Fuzzy Buzzy, Narthex, Mustard, and the like.†   (source)
  • From the start, Ender was plagued by vertigo as he walked through the tunnels, especially the ones that girdled Eros's narrow circumference.†   (source)
  • I sensed the slight movement of the isle under me as a tinge of vertigo, a drunkard's disconnection from gravity.†   (source)
  • As soon as they opened the trunks, unpacked the furniture, and emptied the eleven chests she had brought in order to take possession as lady and mistress of the former palace of the Marquis de Casalduero, she realized with mortal vertigo that she was a prisoner in the wrong house and, even worse, with a man who was not.†   (source)
  • Vertigo gripped her stomach.†   (source)
  • I've come to enjoy the risk, the sensation of vertigo when I realize that I've shot right over the border of the socially acceptable, that I'm walking on thin ice, on empty air.†   (source)
  • The world seemed to tilt around Eragon; the sensation of vertigo was so intense, he had to grab the edge of the table to steady himself.†   (source)
  • The sky was water and he hung suspended over it The thought gave him a vertigo that seemed faraway and unimportant.†   (source)
  • The room he revealed gave me a strange feeling of vertigo–probably because it was so much taller than it was wide.†   (source)
  • I had a moment of reality-flipping vertigo as I realized that, yes, indeed, Alex Fierro was presently a he.†   (source)
  • He was maybe four feet tall, even shorter than Coach Hedge, with bowed legs and chimp-like feet, his clothes so loud they gave Leo vertigo.†   (source)
  • A shudder ran up the mast, jarring Roran's teeth, and the crow's nest swung in the new direction, making him giddy with vertigo.†   (source)
  • As Anion closed the distance, the glacier loomed so large, Hazel got vertigo just trying to take it all in.†   (source)
  • Ego gone and vertigo too, a city without its merengue spin, and a car pulled up at the center stripe, anonymous sedan going the other way, and the driver stuck his head into the gusty wind and called across to me.†   (source)
  • A feeling of vertigo overwhelms me when I look at her, a nauseous feeling lashing in my stomach, but I take a deep breath and think of counting steps, think of running leaps, and my dream of flying.†   (source)
  • Ignoring the vertigo-inducing fall that awaited him if he slipped, Eragon inched along the ledge to a cross-shaped window, where he pulled himself into a large square room lined with sheaves of quarrels and racks of heavy crossbows.†   (source)
  • They continued southwest, reaching a point perhaps halfway through the Cyclopean mountain range, and just as the going seemed about to become really difficult for the first time (above them, seeming to lean out, the icy ledges and screaming buttes made the gunslinger feel an unpleasant reverse vertigo), they began to descend again along the side of the narrow pass.†   (source)
  • A curtain flashed in a lower window—Lucy Martin, spying as usual—and Caroline paused, overcome for an instant by something like vertigo.†   (source)
  • She remembered that long-ago day on the beach, the glinting water and the silverfish of vertigo and Howard walking into her line of vision.†   (source)
  • In the dappled sunlight, Paul's hand reached for her hair, and David felt a sense of panic, almost vertigo, at all he didn't know; at all he knew and couldn't mend.†   (source)
  • Can proximity cause vertigo?†   (source)
  • What is vertigo?†   (source)
  • It was vertigo.†   (source)
  • She shut her eyes, so disturbed by the peculiar and grotesque communion of the gesture that her heart commenced pounding again and her brain was rocked with vertigo.†   (source)
  • As for myself, I was a good sport up to a point but balked at the parachute jump, two hundred feet high, relic of the 1939 World's Fair, which may have been perfectly safe but filled me with heaving vertigo just to look at it.†   (source)
  • Since morning he had had a feeling of illness; the taste of fever in his mouth, and alarming seizures of vertigo.†   (source)
  • The pots were labelled Cardamum, Ginger, Barley Sugar, Wrangle, For a Snurt, For the Crave, Vertigo, etc. There were leather skins hanging up, which had been snipped about as pieces were cut out of them for jesses, hoods or leashes.†   (source)
  • At first he thought it was a vertigo, a roaring in his ears brought on by cold and changes in his circulation.†   (source)
  • He says that her ladyship spoke to him from her full social station once, cavalry to infantry, you know, and that he just closed his eyes and got the vertigo.†   (source)
  • Either he shut his eyes or he had vertigo.†   (source)
  • Edmond was seized with vertigo; he cocked his gun and laid it beside him.†   (source)
  • Athos was seized with a kind of vertigo.†   (source)
  • While traversing the horrible place, his vertigo vanished.†   (source)
  • Vertigo seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings.†   (source)
  • The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo was left with him.†   (source)
  • In a week three other waterfront workers and a fisherman at Point Carib were down with something which, even Inchcape Jones acknowledged, was uncomfortably like the description of plague in "Manson's Tropical Diseases": "a prodromal stage characterized by depression, anorexia, aching of the limbs," then the fever, the vertigo, the haggard features, the bloodshot and sunken eyes, the buboes in the groin.†   (source)
  • Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses.†   (source)
  • So he proceeded, impelled both by this irresistible flood, by fear, and by a vertigo which converted all this into a sort of horrible dream.†   (source)
  • It was a momentary _vertigo_….†   (source)
  • But the chemist's shop was full of people; he had the greatest difficulty in getting rid of Monsieur Tuvache, who feared his spouse would get inflammation of the lungs, because she was in the habit of spitting on the ashes; then of Monsieur Binet, who sometimes experienced sudden attacks of great hunger; and of Madame Caron, who suffered from tinglings; of Lheureux, who had vertigo; of Lestiboudois, who had rheumatism; and of Madame Lefrancois, who had heartburn.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER V. "Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts, catarrhs, rheums, cachexia, bradypepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick, crudities, oppilations, vertigo, winds, consumptions, and all such diseases as come by over-much sitting: they are most part lean, dry, ill-colored …. and all through immoderate pains and extraordinary studies.†   (source)
  • They saw, or rather continued to see, the image of what they had witnessed; but little by little the general vertigo seized them, and they felt themselves obliged to take part in the noise and confusion.†   (source)
  • Milady let her head sink between her two hands, and tried to recall her ideas, whirling in a mortal vertigo.†   (source)
  • The towers, on whose exterior surface he was frequently seen clambering, like a lizard gliding along a perpendicular wall, those two gigantic twins, so lofty, so menacing, so formidable, possessed for him neither vertigo, nor terror, nor shocks of amazement.†   (source)
  • This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest bravery which ever astounded history,—is that causeless?†   (source)
  • But he had not long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may be designated as the call of the abyss.†   (source)
  • He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to vertigo.†   (source)
  • I was talking faster and faster, trying to keep the vertigo at bay with the sound of my own voice.†   (source)
  • …considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian,…†   (source)
  • …and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.†   (source)
  • Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber; Which we will take, until my roof whirl round With the vertigo: and my dwarf shall dance, My eunuch sing, my fool make up the antic.†   (source)
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