Giddying

Whilst the youngster’s ambition by soaring too high, / And daring to Phœbus to venture too nigh, / From the giddying height came tumbling full fast, / Till the waves of the sea entomb’d him at last.

the sort […] that creeps into the maiden heart like the giddying worm into the sheep’s brain—making crooked seem straight to their eyes

Nor from that day to this, through all my giddying “ups” and sobering “downs” have I ever for a moment regretted my decision—

I reached for the thick hanging vines and swung in a broad arc, rising high until I faced the giddying sky;