Headstones stagger under great draughts of time after heads pass out, and their world must reel speechless, blind in the end about its chilling star

-Berryman,John originally John Allyn Smith
  'Homage to Mistress Bradstreet', stanza 55.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits'end.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms107:27.

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. Song of Solomon

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 24:20.

I played the young Earl of Dudleyand was beheaded in the third reelönot, in my opinion, a moment too soon.

-Mills, SirJohn Lewis Ernest Watts
  Of his role in the1936 film Tudor Rose. Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Please.