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
Your steed, though rough-shod, cannot keep His footing on the treacherous rime And may fall headlong any time.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding
I expected every moment to see him fall headlong, half dead.
From Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Isabel Florence Hapgood
He was taking a great interest in the affairs of Fred Badger, and would be very much shocked should the other fall headlong into the net that seemed to be spread for his young feet.
From Jack Winters' Baseball Team Or, The Rivals of the Diamond by Mark Overton
Willie, who was about to follow, had barely time to spring back and gain a firm footing, when he beheld his brother fall headlong into the smoking ruins below.
From Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
