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’Twere best at once to sink to peace,Like birds the charming serpent draws,To drop head-foremost in the jawsOf vacant darkness and to cease.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], Canto XXXIV, page 53
Exerting all his remaining strength he rushed down the bank, dropped his rifle, and plunged headforemost into the stream.
1894, Robert Michael Ballantyne, The Dog Crusoe and His Master
He doubled up and went headforemost to the ground.
1900, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Who Goes There?
Quick, or I'll land you headforemost in that pond, you infernal old hag!"
1912, B. M. Bower, Good Indian