What is "headiest"

Usage examples of "headiest".

Riding at the head of a force one hundred thousand strong, ten thousand mounted, was the headiest sensation he ever remembered feeling, an exhilaration that was powerful, almost sexual.

SEVENTEEN The Bill of Rights FOR JOHN Diefenbaker himself, probably the headiest moments of the Diefenbaker Years came on July i, i 96o, when he rose in the House of Commons to deliver a sixty-two-minute address that eloquently climaxed the chief legislative crusade of his political life: the adoption of a Canadian Bill of Rights.

During the headiest days of the oil boom, Venezuelans had consumed the highest per-capita amount of fine scotch in the world, and their taste for it had not declined despite higher tariffs and import restrictions.

That brief movement of her lips against his was like the headiest aphrodisiac.

But she felt only the rage of her desire as it burned through her veins like the headiest of drugs.

This particular laughter was made of climbing high rocks and plucking the greenest blades and drinking the headiest vintage from the morning ices and eating of the rock-fruits and tasting of young lips in new appetite.

He drank in the clamorous approval, knowing that he had earned his share, and found that it was the headiest of brews.

Against her cheek she could feel the hard warmth of his shoulder, smell the clean, damp, freshly showered male smell of him, and her body was reacting to it as though she had inhaled the headiest and most intoxicating of drugs.

Dared to indulge in the headiest of spirits-a forbidden kiss-though he should not have craved such whilst out of rut.

Dared to indulge in the headiest of spirits - a forbidden kiss - though he should not have craved such whilst out of rut.

Abdullah got up and went in search of the hidden water, wandering down the arcade, where starry blooms brushed his face, all white and hushed in the moonlight, and bell-like flowers breathed out the headiest and gentlest of scents.