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 seemed to be coming right down upon him, and incontinently he dropped his bacon and set off running, only to fall headlong.
From The Wonderful Visit by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Dædalus 15 turned just in time to see Icarus fall headlong into the waves.
From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)
He probably had taken deliberate aim at me, and on seeing me almost fall headlong, doubtless gave himself credit for another Yankee sent to "the happy hunting grounds."
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander
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
