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
I expected every moment to see him fall headlong, half dead.
From Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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
"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
Bevis held his breath, thinking he must topple and fall headlong; but somehow he just saved himself, swung round, and immediately he could ran out upon the shore.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
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