A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: headlong

Number of occurrences in corpus: 13

AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 63 should come again and be cast headlong into the darkness , / for his
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 13 22 , / and the dark hosts took to headlong flight. / When this pious shep
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 25 rses, / dashing, often trail in headlong races. / Now if anyone shoul
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 229 h in an earthly realm, / which headlong fortune spins around, and is
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 593 the famine, / and many dashed headlong from high cliffs, / while othe
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1337 bs, / and the structure toppled headlong, with its tiles shattered, . / N
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1774 nnards of the mountain rushed headlong. / Then a Sicilian minister, see
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2656 a weakening soul should fall headlong into ruin / if it lacks the stu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2697 e vices were born: / first, the headlong strife of a lethal word: / then
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2746 d part of the stars fell down headlong, / twice as many shining stars r
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 63 fts, and they were all driven headlong by the swift current / into th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 431 ays, ‘do the wicked cast me headlong from a lofty rock! / How ofte
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 239 e age / might perhaps draw him headlong to the cross-roads of a perve