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Fall for   /fɔl fɔr/   Listen
Fall for

verb
1.
Fall in love with; become infatuated with.
2.
Be deceived, duped, or entrapped by.  "He fell for the con man's story"






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"Fall for" Quotes from Famous Books



... would not be safe to take the women and children to the Creek or Cherokee countries this fall for the following reasons, 1st The corn and vegetable crop north of the Arkansas River will not afford them subsistence for a single month. The excessive drouth has almost completely destroyed it, and what little would have matured is laid waste by the frequent foraging ...
— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

... lashes which half-hid hers; and so Ma-Rim[o]n, the youthful Initiate of the Holy Mysteries, became in that moment a man, and so he began to learn the long lesson which teaches to what heights and depths a woman who has loved and hated can rise and fall for the sake of ...
— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith

... has been long prevalent among the old residents, derived from the Indians, that there is a variation of the Lake surface which extends over a period of fourteen years,—that is, the Lakes rise for seven years, and fall for seven years. The records kept by accurate observers at various points on the Lakes for the last ten years do not seem to confirm this theory; but it has been well established by the recent observations of Colonel Graham, at both ends of Lake Michigan, ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various

... dangerous condition, a situation full of risk for the white man and all his people, should his force and ruthlessness weaken even for one moment. But Nicol was too widely experienced, too naturally cut out for his work to fall for weakness. He treated the Indian as he would treat a trail dog, as a savage beast to be beaten down to the master will, and kept alive only as long as it yielded ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum

... old Wild Goose who had led the flock of other wild geese every fall for years and years on their way south. He had a thick coat of white feathers, he wore orange-colored boots, and his bill was like a gold trumpet when he opened it ...
— Tell Me Another Story - The Book of Story Programs • Carolyn Sherwin Bailey


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