headforemost
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headforemost (not comparable)
- headfirst
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXIV, page 53:
- ’Twere best at once to sink to peace,
Like birds the charming serpent draws,
To drop head-foremost in the jaws
Of vacant darkness and to cease.
- 1894, Robert Michael Ballantyne, The Dog Crusoe and His Master[1]:
- Exerting all his remaining strength he rushed down the bank, dropped his rifle, and plunged headforemost into the stream.
- 1900, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Who Goes There?[2]:
- He doubled up and went headforemost to the ground.
- 1912, B. M. Bower, Good Indian[3]:
- Quick, or I'll land you headforemost in that pond, you infernal old hag!"
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headlong — see headlong