In spite of this shower of missiles, the soldiers pressed hard upon the heels of the fugitives, set fire to the wooden tower, and cheered wildly when they saw the natives throw themselves headlong from the parapet.
The soldiers shook them off as best they could, rode over them with their horses, and, with their pikes and their swords, drove them headlong down the sides of the dike.
One of them “had the stature of a giant and the voice of a bull,” but even he skipped headlong into the brush as the men from Castile made after him.
At last, after an especially hard blow, the burgomaster went plunging headlong into the green water of the basin, where he floundered about like a cow in a bath tub.
Paying no attention to the manager and his little board, he dashed headlong down the store for the plump man.
This time he got him and gave him a bump that sent the man sprawling headlong on the floor.
I know nothing of the kind," said he, with the headlong imperative air that was usual with him in discussing matters with his sisters.
She had never known him so savage in his humour as he was now, so bearish in his habits, so little inclined to humanity, so determined to rush headlong down, with his head between his legs, into the bottomless abyss.
Why, curse her, she has spread out that vile pennon or banner of womankind, like all the rest of her sex, to allure her votaries to death and headlong ruin.
Mr. President, let us not rush headlong into that unfathomable gulf.
There, at a sign from her hand, the ambassadors and the barks in which they sat were flungheadlong into the yawning pit.
The hearts of the spectators throbbed with excitement as they saw the Heavy Brigade suddenly break into a full gallop and rush headlong upon the enemy, making straight for the centre of the Russian line.
When she loved, when she conceived the idea of adultery, she flung herself into it headlong with desperate frankness.
For if he slumbers that Force rushes into him and whirls him headlong .
The small voice of Philosophy was unheard amid the blare of the trumpets that heralded successful knavery; the rabble ran headlong to the devil after gauds and tinsel.
They surge backward and forward; then they rushheadlong down the streets.
In a moment orderlies dash down the street in headlong race, bearing dispatches.
If thou makest that opposition, I will cut thee entirely down, and throw thee headlong into the sea!
If a pulse but throb alarm, Headlong down the steeps they fall; For a pulse will break the charm, Bounding, bursting, burying all.
The stars rush headlong in the wild commotion, And bathe their glittering foreheads in the ocean.
So he devised; and the spirits of evil laughed, knowing that he was but paving the road for his own headlong destruction.
The proud Bavarian, He and the Spaniards stand up your accusers-- That there's a storm collecting over you Of far more fearful menace than that former one Which whirled you headlong down at Regensburg.
But since that ill-starred day at Regenspurg, Which plunged him headlong from his dignity, A gloomy uncompanionable spirit, 45 Unsteady and suspicious, has possessed him.
To her father's kind salute, she turned a deaf ear, and hastened into the dwelling with headlong speed.
Is it clear that he who pushed his armies beyond the bounds of the universe, who with reckless greed dashed headlong into a boundless and unexplored sea, must in reality have been full of wants?
And he who said: "More firm than crags, more headlong than the stream," did not suppose that he should make any one believe that a man could ever be as firm as a crag.
She also went every morning for a headlong gallop with Nick who, in fact, would take no refusal in the matter.
Some seconds elapsed before she caught sight of the headlong horseman, and then abruptly he dashed into sight round a curve in the road.
It was undoubtedly due to the chance demands of literary work that he found himself flungheadlong into business.
But once more the rock was covered by the tide: the waves dashed over it, and tore his soul away from its hold upon it: it was borne headlong and dashed by the foam.
His tumultuous desires, his uneasy thoughts, his faults, mistakes, and headlong struggles, now seemed to him to be the eddy and swirl borne on by the great current of life towards its eternal goal.
This headlong gallop towards the precipice must end one way or another: either the horse must stop or fall.
The hog wheeled with a startled grunt and stampeded into the thicket--almost upsetting in its headlong flight the man who was hiding there.
While perfectly unconscious of his peril, thinking of nothing but checking the headlong gallop, the lad stood with extended blade right in the middle of the lane.
Denis excitedly, for Francis reeled again in his saddle, this time towards his young esquire, who spurred his steed level with the King's just in time to save him from falling headlong to the ground.
The guards had been schooled well in their part of the conspiracy; and I, more like a schoolboy than a seasoned warrior, ran headlong into the trap.
Occasionally he would look up into my face with a low, pleading whine, as though begging for the word that would send him headlong at the bare throats before him.
Not yet; not till I have discharged my duty to you, Miss Marsden, I must speak a word of warning; I cannot see you rushing headlong to destruction without crying out to you to beware; and I have no motive for doing so but pity for you.
O, Harry, think of what I've been saying, and don't rush headlong to destruction!
An ax in the hands of a skillful wood-cutter threw the treeheadlong to the earth.
Sidewalks, always of plank and often not broader than two boards placed longitudinally, led on to steps that plunged headlong from one terrace to another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headlong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
