"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
... heels over head in love with Miss Pelham at this time, so it is not surprising that he had some sort of an idea about marriage, no matter whom ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon
... a heap at the foot of the first cliff, jumped up like a flash and in a twinkling he was rolling heels over head down another cliff. ...
— The Tale of Cuffy Bear • Arthur Scott Bailey
... an angel and, God help me! I was heels over head in love with her! Did she, by some of the many methods of divination known to her sex, read my feelings? Her whole manner ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians • Ambrose Bierce
... Bilbao in the captain's own native province, Vizcaya. Ordinarily he would have cuffed the speaker heels over head for impudence, but the dialect made him pause. Besides, he wanted to hear something ...
— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey
... a tunnel varied when there was a curve in it. One was merely whirling then heels over head, apparently in the dark, echoing bowels of the earth. There was no needle-point of light to which one's eyes clung ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... back!" sang out the lieutenant. At that moment up ascended right before them a mass of earth and stones and wood, with a dense cloud of smoke and dust, accompanied by a terrific roar, and they felt themselves lifted off their feet and sent heels over head, while down upon them came showering all the more solid portions of the above-mentioned materials about their ears, as they lay half stunned and stifled and vainly endeavouring to rise. Another foot in advance, ...
— The Three Midshipmen • W.H.G. Kingston
... by an angel's spear, Heels over head, to his proper sphere,— Heels over head, and head over heels, Dizzily down the abyss he wheels,— So fell Darius. Upon his crown, In the midst of the barnyard, he came down, In a wonderful whirl of tangled strings, Broken braces and broken springs, Broken tail and broken ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For • Various |
