What is "falling over"

Usage examples of "falling over".

Andy was already finding an ability to push and grunt and wriggle against the gravity, still only a few centimeters at a time, but she had a nasty vision of him falling over the edge.

In the family's absence the rats had caused devastation in every room, but when they sensed the presence of a powerful Taoist priest they ran for cover, screeching in fear and falling over one another in their haste to escape.

They were sworn at on all sides while they 'like children' (the very words of the witnesses) were falling over one another, squealing, fighting and laughing with the funniest faces, and, chasing one another like children, they ran into the street.

The beast flung back, screaming, falling over its tangled legs, tearing at its snout with its foreclaws.

He provided a table sixty foot in diameter, upon which I was to act my part, and palisadoed it round three feet from the edge, and as many high, to prevent my falling over.

The parallel sticks secured them and their horses from falling over the stage.

Little John heard them singing from afar, as he walked through the hush of the mellow twilight that was now falling over hill and dale.

Doubled up in this manner, wrapped in brown sackcloth, her long, lank grey hair falling over her face down to her feet, she presented at first sight a strange figure standing out from the dark ground of the cell, a sort of dun triangle which the ray entering at the window showed like one of those spectres seen in dreams, half shadow and half light, pale, motionless, gloomy, cowering upon a grave or before the grating of a dungeon.

The crowd had thinned enough that Vonones had no one to grip to prevent him from falling over one of the corpses lying ten feet away.

Waterhouse thinks that it is falling over in a gust of wind, but then he realizes that it is alive, and not exactly falling over, but just shifting its weight from foot to foot.

He thinks he can spin out that fight until the Suan Uwin is falling over his own feet!

The girl swayed in her crouch, on the point of falling over from stark fear.

What only minutes ago had been an assembly of civilized folk had quickly become a mindless mob, the group first teetering on, then falling over, the brink of panic.

He thought he saw Alanna in the dimness, pale hair falling over her pale, shining shoulders, her face distorted with bewilderment and terror.

There was plenty of groping about and falling over things as I made my way through this little blacked out corner of bedlam.