Another Rule of Battle, that Alice had not noticed, seemed to be that they always fell on their heads, and the battle ended with their both falling off in this way, side by side: when they got up again, they shook hands, and then the Red Knight mounted and galloped off.
'But I've got a plan for keeping it from FALLING off.'
"How do you know it wasn't a drop of water
falling off the ceiling on him?" asked Gub-Gub.
Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was
falling off the circular edge of the end.
The Scarecrow climbed up the ladder first, but he was so awkward that Dorothy had to follow close behind and keep him from
falling off. When he got his head over the top of the wall the Scarecrow said, "Oh, my!"
Then after a spell I thought the answer, I am
falling off the loft.
The great Admiral and good seaman could read aright the signs of sea and sky, as his order to prepare to anchor at the end of the day sufficiently proves; but, all the same, the mere idea of these baffling easterly airs, coming on at any time within half an hour or so, after the firing of the first shot, is enough to take one's breath away, with the image of the rearmost ships of both divisions
falling off, unmanageable, broadside on to the westerly swell, and of two British Admirals in desperate jeopardy.
The rail kept the ten little Dorothys from
falling off the stand, while the Yellow Hen could easily reach over and take her food from her tray upon the table.
Old familiar declining and
falling off the Rooshan?
The gentleman grasped her firmly by the shoulders, and being so fully occupied with holding her back, he was unable to put a hand to his veil which was
falling off, as it did at length entirely, and Dorothea, who was holding the lady in her arms, raising her eyes saw that he who likewise held her was her husband, Don Fernando.