nose-to-earth

Updated: May 5, 2025

He feverishly confessed that he had for many weeks wavered between hating the whole war and wanting to enlist in the British Aero Corps, to get life's supreme sensation scouting ten thousand feet in air, while dozens of batteries fired at him; a nose-to-earth volplane.

Sinclair Lewis - The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life