fall headlong
Example Sentences
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Again & again wily Senator Black would trip Witness Hopson up, cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a wonder they both did not fall headlong, going at such speed.
From Little Grandmother by May, Sophie
But Bryan was lost in philosophic contemplation, and the first thing that awakened him to the fact was the slipping of a stone, which caused him to trip and fall headlong over the bank!
From Ungava by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
She groped carefully for the newel-post, for going down was more dangerous than coming up, and she feared she might fall headlong.
From Marjorie's Busy Days by Wells, Carolyn
It was hard work, too, for, proceeding as they were in comparative darkness, every now and then a horse would place its hoof in the burrow of some animal, and nearly fall headlong.
From The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains by Hildibrand, Henri Théophile
