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"Head-on" Quotes from Famous Books

... head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little ...

— The Return of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... annihilation, one should turn on full speed and get there. Not one hair's breadth did he deign to swerve for chuck-hole or stone; not one fractional mile per hour did he check for gully or ditch. We struck them head-on, bang! did they happen in our way. Then my head hit the disreputable top. In the mysterious fashion of those who drive freight wagons my companion remained imperturbably glued to his seat. I had neither breath nor leisure for the country ...

— The Killer • Stewart Edward White

... you wish to be painted?" asked the middy, as he moved the easel a little, and took a professional, head-on-one-side look at ...

— The Middy and the Moors - An Algerine Story • R.M. Ballantyne

... for incompetence, or worse, somewhere else; or a dozen conductors or engineers who weren't good and comfortably blacklisted before they climbed Crosswater. Take McCloskey: you swear by him, don't you? He was a chief despatcher back East, and he put two passenger-trains together in a head-on collision the day he resigned and came West to grow up ...

— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde

... not!" exclaimed Betty, above the noise. She shifted the wheel to bring the boat head-on to the waves, and this made her ride on a more even keel. Then, with a downpour, accompanied by terrific thunder and vivid lightning, the storm broke. Betty bravely stood to her post, the others offering to ...

— The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake • Laura Lee Hope

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