head-foremost

I lost my balance and pitched head-foremost into the ooze.

Chapter 6 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.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 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

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

The lad threw himself head-foremost out of window, in a crisis of fever.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

The lad threw himself head-foremost out of window, in a crisis of fever.

Henrik Ibsen 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.

A Child's History of England 2007

"Tom reached and clawed down the hole after him ... the clumsy lobster pulled him in head-foremost."

The Water Babies 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.

Westward Ho! 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.

Carnacki, the Ghost Finder 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.

Greenmantle 2005