headlong
/ˈhɛd.lɔŋ/ adjectif C2- Precipitous.
- Plunging downwards head foremost.
- Rushing forward without restraint.
- Reckless; impetuous.
Dans la bibliothèque
So he walked forward to the tree, but just as he came under the first branches they bent down and twined around him, and the next minute he was raised from the ground and flung headlong among his fellow travelers.
Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
“You may imagine the amazement of the fugitive when he found himself flung headlong over the rocks!
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