take a header
Example Sentences
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See, if you open the window you can take a header right into the blue water—Oh, isn’t it a beautiful colour?—and have a morning swim.”
From The Island Mystery by Birmingham, George A.
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)
Then you’ll slip in and swim to the rock again, and take a header off it.
From The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap by Wood, Stanley L.
Why, I don't know as I shan't be afraid of getting into that bed, though I does take a header in the water every morning.
From The Lost Heir by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
He must not only be able to take a header and swim the distance, but must also swim in approved form so as to be capable of swimming in his clothes.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
