"Heels over head" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... There's many a lad Great wealth has had, And praises glad; Down in the mud He'll others tread And honour wed: So goes the world heels over head! ...
— Rampolli • George MacDonald
... knew that I could not keep my equilibrium long without being thrown out, and I was right. Each reindeer wanted to go faster than the others; they kept on at a terrible gait. I was shot out of the sleigh, heels over head, and rolled over and over in the snow. Finally ...
— The Land of the Long Night • Paul du Chaillu
... cried, suddenly: "Why, you're mad, Kathleen! Woods wants to marry you! Why, he's heels over head in ...
— The Eagle's Shadow • James Branch Cabell
... lay mine at your feet, and feel yours crowning my life,—why, so it is, you know; you cannot alter it! And if you insist that your love is at my feet, I have only to turn Irish and reply that it is because I am heels over head in love with you:—and, mark you, that is no pretty attitude for a lady that you have driven me into in order that I may ...
— An Englishwoman's Love-Letters • Anonymous
... the end of this time the young man could congratulate himself on success in one quarter, he knew that he was balked in the other. Phrony Tripper was heels over head in love with him; but her grandfather, though easy and pliable enough to all outward seeming, was in a land-deal as dull as a ditcher. Wickersham spread out before him maps and plats showing that he owned surveys which overlapped ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
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