What is "headforemost"

Usage examples of "headforemost".

Voicing a terrified shriek, the Waz-don lunged headforemost from the recess above Ta-den.

Instantly Tarzan dove headforemost through the aperture carrying the hangings of antelope hide with him to the floor below.

He reached for her arm and at the same instant something clashed against the bars of one of the windows, crashing them inward to the floor, to be followed almost simultaneously by a human figure which dove headforemost into the room, its head enveloped in the skin window hangings which it carried with it in its impetuous entry.

His lips were pursed up and he was bending over almost to the surface of the water, when something dashed past him, and an instant later something else struck him like a thunderbolt from behind, and drove him headforemost into the brook!

All went well amid the furious cannonade till the monitor Tecumseh, taking the wrong side of the channel buoy in her anxiety to ram the Tennessee, ran over the torpedoes, was horribly holed by the explosion, and plunged headforemost to the bottom, her screw madly whirling in the air.

Crying that, she pushed him, sliding, from the back of the bird, and he parted from them, falling headforemost in the air like a stricken eagle.

His foot caught in a coil of rope, and he fell headforemost into the hold.

Thus speaking, he followed the example of his cousin, though more quietly, plunging off from his lowlier perch, and cleaving the water, headforemost, with as little commotion as a sullen stone would make sent directly downward to the deep.

Wieroo who dived headforemost for him, striking him between the shoulders and bearing him to the floor.

Taking the lift of the inertron belt into her calculation, she dove headforemost, like a projectile, through the door.

Nkima had not pushed the ape-man outward he doubtless would have slid but a short distance before being able to stay his fall, but as it was he lunged headforemost down the embankment, rolling and tumbling for a short distance over the loose rock until his body was brought to a stop by one of the many stunted trees that clung tenaciously to the wind-swept slope.

As it gained the topmost step a final report sounded in the saloon, and the figure checked, revolved slowly on a heel, tottered, and plunged headforemost down the steps again.

Exerting all his remaining strength he rushed down the bank, dropped his rifle, and plunged headforemost into the stream.

Powell had left camp when his horse, long unused, had precipitately and unexpectedly bucked him off headforemost into a pot of frijoles.

I dashed furiously at the window and hurled myself out headforemost, for I can tell you that I had stopped being afraid of death.