Like Art Deco skyscrapers, the 746-foot towers were designed to step back in several places as they rose; the stepbacks augmented the sense of vertiginous heights.

But visitors also experience vertiginous heights, winds up to 176 miles an hour, temperatures to minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit, dazzling light - and thin air.

The women balance lightly on their Louis heels aided by long walking sticks, the vertiginous height of their rat-stacked hairstyles balanced by the volume of their hitched-up overskirts.

While the French built their churches ever higher, reaching such vertiginous heights in places like Beauvais that the walls kept falling in, the English built theirs ever wider instead.

Idly, without much interest, Maia watched the harvester family labor along those vertiginous heights, working their feather farm.

Tinta Invisible's story takes place in the first decade of the 21st century, in a historical frame recognizable by the vertiginous height of the social networks.

It is at such a vertiginous height, however, that some visitors have found themselves reminded more of Hitchcock than of Bach.

New construction nearby added dust and curtailed available light, and hiring workers to weed and trim the trees at such vertiginous heights was, in Ms. Hahn's words, an awful experience.

They were not vertiginous heights that rose sheer from the encircling plain, but gentle slopes dappled with light green vegetation and small copses of rough-barked trees.

Picked out now by the moon in sharp detail, Jazz saw a castle built into the vertiginous heights!