take a header
Example Sentences
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If she is Undine, and plunges deep down into the blue water, we can only take a header and go to the bottom after her.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
To cover myself with the water as quickly as possible appears to be the only remedy, however, and I take a header from the doorsill.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
I take a header just as the clock is about to strike for the last time.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
"Wow!" shouted Jerry, as he saw one of the riders suddenly shoot out of his saddle and take a header, to be followed by his companion a second later.
From The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness by Allen, Quincy
Neither would it have been possible to take a header into the river with the foreshore as described by the same witness.
From The Camera Fiend by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
