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Headforemost   Listen
adverb
Headforemost, Headfirst  adv.  With the head foremost; of motion.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Headforemost" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hill behind, struck, tumbled over once or twice, and stopped, right in the mouth of that tent, the fuse still burning. The game stopped! The players were up, instantly. The next moment, one fellow came diving headforemost out of that triangular hole at the back, followed fast by the other three—the captain last. It only took "one time and one motion" to get out of that. Soon as they could pick themselves up, they, all four, jumped behind a tree ...
— From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign - A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw • William Meade Dame

... thing stiffened, the jaws relaxed, dropping me to the ground, and then, careening once in mid air, the creature plunged headforemost to the road, full upon Woola, who still clung tenaciously to its ...
— Warlord of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... thought I to myself; "the time has come when I must plunge headforemost into the sea of falsehood; so here goes." And ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper

... door, thus making it ready for his use, and then quickly returned to Black Madge's side. He raised her in his arms, carried her to the little door, and, having unceremoniously thrust her headfirst through it, crawled after her, closed the door, and pulled the safe into place again with the aid of ...
— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter



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