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
It seemed to be coming right down upon him, and incontinently he dropped his bacon and set off running, only to fall headlong.
From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
At once there flashed into Brougham's mind remembrance of the death pact, and he leaped from the bath, only to lose all consciousness and fall headlong to the floor.
From Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce
Le Maître, at the prow, in the violent upsetting, was seen to fall headlong between two bits of ice into the sea.
From The Mermaid A Love Tale by Lily Dougall
"We must fall back before them if they push on, and then methinks they might drive us over the brink, so that we fall headlong to the bottom, and break in pieces."
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
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