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
She groped carefully for the newel-post, for going down was more dangerous than coming up, and she feared she might fall headlong.
From Marjorie's Busy Days by Carolyn 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
Otherwise it was dark, pitch dark, in the narrow, crooked streets, and down by the wharves, where one might fall headlong into the sea if tipsy, or a stranger.
From Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland
The moment would come when she must fall headlong.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
