fall headlong
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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
The moment would come when she must fall headlong.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Dædalus 15 turned just in time to see Icarus fall headlong into the waves.
From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell
The stars glimmered all around us, and time and again we saw them detach themselves and fall headlong, tracing long strokes of fire upon the sky.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster
My mind is drawn different ways; I fall headlong out of my ideal world, if a holed stocking remind me of the real world.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle
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