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Headlong   /hˈɛdlˌɔŋ/   Listen
adjective
Headlong  adj.  
1.
Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly.
2.
Steep; precipitous. (Poetic) "Like a tower upon a headlong rock."


adverb
Headlong  adv.  
1.
With the head foremost; headforemost; head first; as, to fall headlong.
2.
Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.
3.
Hastily; without delay or respite.





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"Headlong" Quotes from Famous Books



... done, of course; and just as the Dawn felt the new influence, the other vessel took the same sheer, and away we both went to starboard, at precisely the same instant. I shouted to right our helm to "hard a-starboard," and it was well I did; a minute more would have brought us down headlong on the Englishman. Even now we could only see his hull, at instants; but the awful proximity of his spars denoted the full extent of the danger. Luckily, we hit on opposite directions, or our common ...
— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper
... gazed. The man had been dashed against something headlong. He whirled round and round in white water, his legs were thrown up, and we saw no more of him. The woman cast off the plank, and tossed her helpless arms in search of him. A shriek, ringing far on the billowy shore, declared that she had lost him; and then, without ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... you see? After all his mother's airs and graces and running away with him when they were a pair of babies—as if Robin had the plague. I was the plague—and so were you. And here the old Duchess throws them headlong at each other—in all their full bloom—into each other's arms. I did not do it. You didn't. It was the stuffiest old female grandee in London, who wouldn't let me sweep her front door-steps ...
— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... a way of ambling withal for a certain time, and then of breaking into a headlong gallop—bolting free—plunging to catastrophe or liberty. Kate went her busy ways for a fortnight, somewhat chastened in spirit, secretly a little ashamed, and altogether very determined to make such a useful person of herself that she could forget her apparent lack of attractions (for she told herself ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie
... postillion was slackening his speed, I increased the amount of the present I was going to make him, and once more we rushed along at a headlong pace. I felt perishing with the cold; while the postillions seeing me so lightly clad, and so prodigal of my money to speed them on their way, imagined that I was a prince carrying off the heiress of some noble family. We heard them talking to this effect while they changed ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt


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