Lexicographical Neighbors of Giddinesses
Literary usage of Giddinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Edward Chauncey Baldwin (1906)
"Mr. Lorry, you cannot con- ' trol the mincing vanities and giddinesses of
empty-headed i girls; you must not expect to do it, or you will always be dis- ..."
2. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"... their heads being sometimes subject to giddinesses, and their activity with
the steadiness of their joints being abated by age, besides the trouble of ..."
3. Letters to His Son: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901)
"... well to live extremely low, for some time; and I could wish, though I do not
expect it, that you would take one gentle vomit; for those giddinesses and ..."
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