head-less

Updated: April 30, 2025

The long head-less body gave way gradually, and becoming quite relaxed fell powerless and dead to the earth. "Oh, Sneak, let's go!" said Joe, trembling, his face having turned as pale as death while Pete was dashing about in choking agony under the tight folds of the serpent.

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described

So he gave up his foolish notion of being a sailor boy. You will find some famous stories in it. There is the story of Rip Van Win-kle, who slept twenty years. And there is the funny story of the Head-less Horse-man. When you read these a-mus-ing stories, you will remember the playful boy who became a great author. Fred was talking to his sister one day. He said,

Edward Eggleston - Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans

What a wealth of finery and prettiness had been lavished upon the little mortal, who would have been infinitely happier dressed in rags and making mud-pies in a gutter, than in his splendid raiment and well-furnished nursery; an uninteresting nursery, where there were no cupboards full of broken wagons and head-less horses, flat-nosed dolls and armless grenadiers, the cast-off playthings of a flock of brothers and sisters a very chaos of rapture for the fingers of infancy!

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - The Lovels of Arden