falling over

• “Her head was dangling behind his back, her hair falling over her face, but through the tangled strands she caught glimpses inside the rooms, quick looks at instruments of torture — electrical prods, surgical scalpels, straight jackets, hypodermic needles.”

  Shiver

• “The stench of stale tobacco and unwashed humanity took me by the throat, and I blundered for the door, falling over a frantically courting couple on the floor, and followed by shrill obscenities from my bedmate.”

  Flashman and the angel of the lord

• “He had hastily dressed, throwing a dusty frock coat over his nightshirt, but had neglected to address the issue of his bed-matted hair: The wispy white strands hung down nearly to his shoulder, a diaphanous curtain falling over his enormous ears, exposing his mottled scalp.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Monstrumologist

• “At length he fell into a dreamy, dozying state, half sleeping, half waking, which was disturbed by many unpleasant dreams of falling over a precipice, &c., and of having a gun aimed at his head; and starting up, he could have almost sworn that on opening his eyes he had seen a hand grasping a pistol vanish through the window.”

  The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story

• “(It's astonishing, how even the best men start falling over them-selves in a fret when it's a question of contenting their elder brother.)”

  Flashman and the Dragon

• “Anna could picture Frederick surrounded by lists, pen in hand, his dark head bent, the stick-straight hair falling over his forehead.”

  Firestorm

• “But Paul Mitchell the cavalier, in loose light-rust tunic and dark-rust breeches, with exquisite cobwebs of white lace cascading over his shoulders, at his wrists and even falling over the tops of his soft-leather calf-length boots, wide yellow taffeta scarf at his waist and broad-brimmed hat, ostrich-plumed, on his flowing hair — this Paul Mitchell took his breath away.”

  War Game

• “It seems that falling in love with the Murderous Marquess is only one short step away from falling over a cliff.”

  One Night Of Scandal

• “The lean pensive man -- with hair falling over his forehead in a neatly-clipped "bang," such as custom restricts to children -- had probably written that morning, in his official capacity, to innumerable potentates.”

  The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions

• “It was as if they wanted to punish me for not falling over in praise of the self-abasement they wanted me to portray as their muse, or something.”

  Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

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