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"I don't think I would go headlong into another heartbreak story … just did that, takes a lot out of you."

From Salon Dec. 16, 2022

As she told McDonagh, "I don't think I would go headlong into another heartbreak story . . . just did that, takes a lot out of you."

From Salon Dec. 16, 2022

The more you try to pull him back the more impetus you give him to go headlong down.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

I may declare, and even believe, that there is no solid wall before me, yet if I go headlong against it, I am bruised all the same.

From Miss Lou by Edward Payson Roe

He had tripped over something that lay in the grass, and a splash announced that with his usual hard luck the fat boy had managed to go headlong into the spring.

From The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners by Herbert Carter




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