I lost my balance and pitched head-foremost into the ooze. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The horse, on being struck, went head-foremost to earth, throwing his rider, as it seemed, twenty feet into the air with his hands and feet sprawling in all directions.23 ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)
But it was all confused with evil dreams of hanging upside down among flames, and then I was plunged head-foremost into the icy depths under Jotunberg with Rudi Starnberg's wild laugh ringing in my ears. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)
The lad threw himself head-foremost out of window, in a crisis of fever. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The dull tyrant, upon this, punished Mr. Hough, and five-and-twenty more, by causing them to be expelled and declared incapable of holding any church preferment; then he proceeded to what he supposed to be his highest step, but to what was, in fact, his last plunge head-foremost in his tumble off his throne. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"Tom reached and clawed down the hole after him ... the clumsy lobster pulled him in head-foremost." ❋ Unknown (2007)
And, oh glory! the great yellow flag of Spain, which streamed in the gale, lifted clean into the air, flagstaff and all, and then pitched wildly down head-foremost, far to leeward. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I dashed furiously at the window, and hurled myself out head-foremost; for I can tell you that I had stopped being afraid of death. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Opposite one of these I slewed the car to the edge, got out, started it again and saw it pitch head-foremost into the darkness. ❋ Unknown (2005)
We were not an inch too far out of the inner vortex of her going down, when, by the blue-light which John Mullion still burnt in the bow of the Surf-boat, we saw her lurch, and plunge to the bottom head-foremost. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The horse attempted to jump, caught his foot against the bar, and of course went over head-foremost. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Already on first laying it down, he had had the old sensation of sinking through the pillow; of falling head-foremost into nothingness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mr. Whitelaw suggests to me that {epikarsios} ({epi kar}) may mean rather “head-foremost,” which seems to be its meaning in Homer (Odyss.ix. 70), and from which might be obtained the idea of intersection, one line running straight up against another, which it has in other passages. ❋ Herodotus (2003)
In the grave, sleet, filth, wet snow — no need to put themselves out for you — ‘Let her down, Vanuha; it’s just like her luck — even here, she is head-foremost, the hussy. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The notion of my being able to get up again after falling head-foremost from such an immense height seemed to me at first too paradoxical to be acted upon, but I soon found that I was not a bit hurt. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then, still up-country somewhere, he had been in a frightful buggy-accident, pitching out head-foremost, and all but breaking his neck. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Life was like a procession that trooped along this perilous margin, brimful of hope and vigour, gay, superbly unthinking; and then of a sudden there was a gap in the ranks, and one of the train had vanished, had pitched head-foremost into the depths, to be seen no more — by mortal eyes at least. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And springing into the air, amidst howls of applause, he came down head-foremost, and dived to the bottom. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The natural birth of all animals is head-foremost, because the parts above the umbilical cord are larger than those below. ❋ Unknown (2002)
