this time resolved, if his door was broken in (he was a small Southern man of retaliative temperament), to pitch himself head foremost over the parapet, and crush a man or two below.
Merry tumbled head foremost into the excavation;
A person may tell a person to dive off a bridge head foremost into five-and-forty feet of water, Mrs Richards, but a person may be very far from diving.
and now I lost no time, crawled back along the bowsprit, and tumbled head foremost on the deck.
