Like swan dives

Usage examples of headfirst.

The rest of Pigpen was in the stockpot, headfirst in prizewinning barbeque sauce.

Chapter Thirty-Nine I dived headfirst off the porch, taking Betsey with me.

Wagner and Bauer at the Bofors gun, shattering the wheelhouse windows, catching Langsdorff in the back, driving him headfirst through the door.

For an instant, he thought he was not going to make it, that he was going to hurtle headfirst into the ferroconcrete wall of the gym.

Four short-shafted arrows with tan fletching were pegged, headfirst, into the ground in front of her.

Then Martin Link was screaming loud at Iona, gutshot, flopping about on the floor while Longarm dove headfirst at the sofa, grabbing his six-gun as he rolled over the back and landed back on his feet in better shape to take charge again.

He understood, however, when he saw The Shadow lie flat across, the murky stringpiece and begin to lower himself, headfirst, below the level of the pier.

With the huge Thalesian keeping him from tumbling in a steely clatter down the stairs, Sparhawk inched his way headfirst down the stairs until he could see out into the room beyond.

TWENTY-FOUR The torchman walking directly in front of Dake grunted and suddenly took it upon himself to pitch headfirst over the edge of the trail.

Always fresh, irreverent, original, brilliant, and on-the-edge, Thompson hurls himself headfirst into each assignment and situation and comes back with a story only he could write.

The alley With a small nod from his mistress, the giant took hold of Aral, inverting him and plunging him headfirst into the barrel.

Almost forty feet down, hanging headfirst under an icy overhang so that only his crampons and butt caught the light, he looked as if he might be in trouble.

We were driving from Chicago to New Orleans in an attempt to make Mardi Gras, which we would miss by a full day, arriving on Ash Wednesday, because in the next five miles we would spin out across the snow-covered highway, escape being piledriven by an oncoming truck by inches, plunge off the side of the road, and bury the Corvette headfirst to its rear wheels in snowbanks fifteen feet deep.

Alba is tunneling headfirst into me, a bone and flesh excavator of my flesh and bone, a deepener of my depths.

Penny had watched a dozen older women become flaming alcoholics, and she had heard rumors of several celebrated cases in which the wives of top generals and admirals were habitually attended by junior officers whose job it was to see that the dipsomaniac did not create a scandal or fall headfirst down a flight of stairs.