The fall through leafy branches and the
dizzy heights; the snakes that struck at me as I dodged and leaped away in chattering flight; the wild dogs that hunted me across the open spaces to the timber--these were terrors concrete and actual, happenings and not imaginings, things of the living flesh and of sweat and blood.
Before Adam
In its habits it resembles the goat, frequenting the rudest precipices; cropping the herbage from their edges; and like the chamois, bounding lightly and securely among
dizzy heights, where the hunter dares not venture.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountain
He could spring twenty feet across space at the
dizzy heights of the forest top, and grasp with unerring precision, and without apparent jar, a limb waving wildly in the path of an approaching tornado.
Tarzan of the Apes
Gub-Gub was a bit scared, walking on such a narrow bridge at that
dizzy height above the river.
Story of Doctor Dolittle
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the
dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.
Tom Sawyer
The inside of the dome is figured all over with a monstrous inscription in Turkish characters, wrought in gold mosaic, that looks as glaring as a circus bill; the pavements and the marble balustrades are all battered and dirty; the perspective is marred every where by a web of ropes that depend from the
dizzy height of the dome, and suspend countless dingy, coarse oil lamps, and ostrich-eggs, six or seven feet above the floor.
The Innocents Abroad
Happily, he soon succeeded in disarming his adversary, whose knife fell on the rock at their feet; and from this moment it became a fierce struggle who should cast the other over the
dizzy height into a neighboring cavern of the falls.
Last of The Mohicans
He succeeded in this and took United to
dizzy heights never before experienced by many supporters.
Legacy of Sir John selling Magpies
J Bradburne Price said the farmland prices in the area had reached "
dizzy heights".
Flintshire land tops PS15k/acre
But they've all got away to go before they reach the
dizzy heights of Instagram's official account, which has a massive 223 million followers.
RONALDO AND KIM JOIN THE 100 CLUB
And only when Guardiola or Jose Mourinho or Jurgen Klopp for that matter have dropped down into the Championship and brought, say, a Blackburn or a Charlton back up and hit the
dizzy heights can they be bracketed alongside Old Big 'Ead.
Clough act to follow, Pep
The New Zealander is promoting his third solo album,
Dizzy Heights, which has been a real family affair - his wife and two sons all play on it.
GIGS OF THE WEEK
His latest solo album
Dizzy Heights is very much a family effort and while packed with his usual melody is punchier and faster in places.
The power of a song remains the same
Neil Finn plays tunes from
Dizzy Heights, while New York-based Joan as Police Woman, showcases her critically acclaimed album The Classic.
TV CHOICE
It can't have been that bad for them, can it?" Listening to the resulting
Dizzy Heights suggests that he's right.
Still managing a perfect Finn-ish; Crowded House frontman Neil Finn recently released his third solo album. As the New Zealander gears up to tour, ANDY WELCH finds out why the making of Dizzy Heights was a family affair