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

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

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)

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

I had thought he would fall headlong down the ladder, so distractedly did he behave himself, and called upon him sharply to tell me wherein lay this danger to Idonia he affected to fear.

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.