"Head over heels" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... giant, and he gave the fairy a touch of his foot that sent the little fellow rolling down head over heels. ...
— The Golden Spears - And Other Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy
... interest, so that the lad, finding himself between two fires, did not know which way to turn, and at last, in his bewilderment, started to run straight across country. Suddenly, without any warning, he went head over heels into a cutting about six feet deep that crossed his line of march, and proved to be neither more nor less than one of the trenches by which the Swedish sharp-shooters got so close up to ...
— The Young Carpenters of Freiberg - A Tale of the Thirty Years' War • Anonymous
... flaring light of the flames the rooster was seen to pounce upon the shoulders of the huge bear as the latter came down to "all-fours" and dived at the old hunter. Andy sprang back, collided with a tree-trunk, and went head over heels. In an instant the bear would have been upon him and one stroke of his sabre-like claws would ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood
... Blake, "about dogs and how to raise 'em. And then he up and said goodbye. Oh, Sheila, it's all right. He'll be back when he's got over being miffed. Why, he expected you to come tumblin' down the ladder head over heels to see him—a handsome fellow like that! Shucks! Haven't you ever dealt with the vanity of a young male before? It's as jumpy as a rabbit. ...
— Hidden Creek • Katharine Newlin Burt
... to fall; head over heels he went tumbling, into vast bottomless abysses-down, down, down. He heard a strange voice saying: "Their collars are too tight." The words rang in his ears, they assumed monstrous and overwhelming significance, ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair
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