"Heels over head" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and swaying around rather loosely, when I felt myself going heels over head into the snow. As I picked myself up I heard my wife and children screaming, and John Jones shouting to his horses, "Git up," while at the same time he lashed them with his whip. My face was so plastered ...
— Driven Back to Eden • E. P. Roe
... over de bank, he did, en dar wuz n'er Fox lookin' at 'im outer de water. Den he retch out fer ter shake han's, en in he went, heels over head, en Brer ...
— Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris
... dislocated. On the following day he tilted with Michael von Denstedt, and was again victorious, hitting his adversary full in the target, and "bearing him off over his horse's tail so neatly, that the knight came down, heels over head, upon the earth." ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley |
