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It is true that the chances of such a ``head-on'' collision are relatively very small; two stars approaching each other would most probably fall into closed orbits around their common center of gravity. If there were a collision it would most likely be a grazing one instead of a direct front-to-front encounter.
Mary's recoil showed how completely, poor child! she had always had her own way; to be crossed now by this timid old maid was like going head-on into a gray mist and finding it a stone wall. There was a tingling silence. "Then I'll kill myself," she said. Miss Lydia gripped her small, work-worn hands together, but said nothing. "Oh, please help me!" Mary said.
In fact, the plunging of the logs head-on over the fall had so gouged out the soft rock below, that an eddy of great power had formed in the basin. Shearer and Thorpe had often discussed the advisability of constructing an artificial apron of logs to receive the impact.
The Sybarite, making easy way through a slight sea, with what wind there was not much on the port bow, rolled but slightly, and her deliberate and graceful fore-and-aft motion, as she swung from crest to crest of the endless head-on swells, caused the stars to stream above her mast-heads, a boundless river of broken light.
So strong was this tradition in the British navy that its ablest contemporary chronicler, James, has sought to explain away, half apologetically, the advantage gained by Nelson in doubling on the French van at the Nile. The Dutch, equally quixotic, refrained from taking advantage of the enemy's inability to use his broadsides while thus approaching nearly head-on.
Now, Ato and Val and another hundred men came charging forward. Leaving three men to set up the strange machine, Grim Hagen's trained Aldebaranians met them. They clashed head-on blade against blade, fist against bone. They held there, like two wrestlers evenly matched. For a moment Grim Hagen's men were forced back. Then some new defenders swarmed out of the side-alleys and joined them.
The embarrassment met his sterner mood in a head-on collision, so that for a moment the impulsive speech failed him. She spoke first. "That was Winkleman, I suppose," she said. "I did not want to appear. What is decided?" "Decided?" he stammered, not knowing where to look, but unable to keep his eyes from straying. "Yes. Is it too late? Can he prevail with this M'tela after all?"
The pike-poles assured progress when the current slacked; the sweeps kept her head-on when drifting with the stream. Charlie's temperament was pessimistic at best. When the wanigan was to be moved, he rose fairly to the heights of what might be called destructive prophecy. The packing began before the men had finished breakfast.
There were acres of room in which they might pass, but after a moment of uncertainty, they rushed headlong for each other as though driven by the hand of fate, and met head-on, with a great rending of propellers. The onlookers along the side of the field howled and pounded each other in an ecstasy of delight, but Drew and I walked apart for a hasty consultation, for it was our turn next.
As she came to, the little craft laid over until the water was up to the lee coamings of her main hatchway, and for a second or two I thought she was going to turn turtle with me; but, once fairly round and head-on to the sea, she rode wonderfully well, especially after I had lashed the helm a-lee and got the mainsheet aft.
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