"Of all the terrific yells that ever fell on mortal ears, none could exceed the cry of the infuriated throng".
"The ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle," a Confederate colonel recalled.
I assume if corn ever falls on me, it will still be in the can... My wife has been rained on by mixed Chinese vegetables... Corn rain in Colo.
Interior designers would swoon over this, and if Nasa ever falls on hard times, it could do worse than patent such gorgeous images as designs for high-end bathroom tiles or fabrics.
The Journalists' Charity looks after those of us who, after a life in the best job ever, fall on hard times – through mistakes, through illness, through old age or just through bad luck.
In Italy, where I can slide my mortar and pestle across a counter, brace myself, and move it to the table, the only thing that ever fell on my foot was a full bottle of Barolo, and it was three in the morning, I had been working late, and the fig tart in the oven was about to burn.
I couldn't imagine that anything more painful would ever fall on my ears.
It was the fifth night of Hanukkah, a night that for its inability to ever fall on the Sabbath -- the week's most holy day -- is distinctly holy.
In skateboarding an 18-year-old named Nyjah Huston is jumping down sets of stairs the size of Mt. Everest, falling on his face, and getting up and going again.
But have they ever fallen flat on their face in their bid to think on the spot?
