1 That was a plain statement of the cloudy purpose which had driven him in headlong to Starkfield.
2 And girls who knew very well that a lady always refused a gentleman the first three times he proposed rushed headlong to accept the first time.
3 When Prissy still lingered, shuffling her feet and mouthing, Scarlett gave her another push which nearly sent her headlong down the front steps.
4 There was the same breakneck, headlong determination in Scarlett's face that Melanie had often seen in Gerald O'Hara's face when his mind was made up.
5 New Orleans was such a strange, glamorous place and Scarlett enjoyed it with the headlong pleasure of a pardoned life prisoner.
6 But the whale rushed round in a sudden maelstrom; seized the swimmer between his jaws; and rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again, and went down.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 7 The foremost Indian bounded like a stricken deer, and fell headlong among the clefts of the island.
8 Duncan thrust forth a foot, and the shock precipitated the eager savage headlong, many feet in advance of his intended victim.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 9 It were impossible to say what violent assertion the stubborn Hawkeye would have next made, in his headlong wish to vindicate his identity, had not the aged Delaware once more interposed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 10 In vain Hawkeye called to him to respect the covers; the young Mohican braved the dangerous fire of his enemies, and soon compelled them to a flight as swift as his own headlong speed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 11 Uncas abandoned his rifle, and leaped forward with headlong precipitation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 12 Once he knocked his shoulder so heavily against a tree that he went headlong.
13 He seemed to be awaiting the moment when he should pitch headlong.
14 And the men of the regiment, with their starting eyes and sweating faces, running madly, or falling, as if thrown headlong, to queer, heaped-up corpses--all were comprehended.
15 Twice Petrushka, too, had fallen headlong, and this necessitated being tied to his perch with a piece of rope.