"Vertigo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... matter with me?" he asked himself. "No, she is not a mere creature, but a whole creation. Of her world, even through veils and clouds, I have caught echoes like the memory of sufferings healed, like the dazzling vertigo of dreams in which we hear the plaints of generations mingling with the harmonies of some higher sphere where all is Light and all is Love. Am I awake? Do I still sleep? Are these the eyes before which the luminous ...
— Seraphita • Honore de Balzac
... and causes great depression and vertigo. It is soluble in ether, chloroform, benzene, glacial acetic acid, and nitro-benzene, in 1.75 part of methylated spirit, very nearly insoluble in water, and practically insoluble in carbon bisulphide. ...
— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford
... speedy accordingly as it is applied near or remote from these centers, or infused into the capillary or the venous circulation. Usually, too, an unfortunate experiences, perhaps instantaneously, an intense burning pain in the member lacerated, which is succeeded by vertigo, nausea, retching, fainting, coldness, and collapse; the part bitten swells, becomes discolored, or spotted over its surface with livid blotches, that may, ultimately, extend to the greater portion of the body, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 • Various
... to a sense of vertigo, which frequently (with me) followed the use of animal food. There is, ...
— Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages • William Andrus Alcott
... too late!" The young man had an attack of vertigo, and was obliged to lean against a tree for support. "Are you telling ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath
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