And there was something there, too; the dizziest kind of a visitin' card that was ever handed out, I suspicion, in those particular swell chambers for single gents.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
A moment afterwards, I realised that under it was going on something more enduring than stone, and something wilder than the dizziest height-the agony of man.
"The Napoleon of Notting Hill"
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A hundred years ago, the custom held That none should take a wife till he had stood, His left heel on the dizziest point of crag, His right leg and both arms stretched in mid air, Above the sea: three hundred feet to drop To death, if he should fail-a Spartan test.
"Georgian Poetry 1913-15"
Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)