"She does feel like one of those Roman aristocrats, waiting to be handed the fatal draft," Mr. Coetzee read in a steady metronomic beat, his words falling off softly over the hushed room.
I recall one that was typewritten, but remarkably clumsily; words routinely fell off the edge of the odd-sized paper, and phrases were squeezed between lines.
He said he was in "denial" about his health until a fraught performance in California where he appeared to be slurring his words and reportedly fell off the stage at one point.
On Elbow's second album, Cast of Thousands, he felt so much pressure about getting his words right that "the skin fell off my head and I couldn't sleep for weeks".
"I saw the word 'matrimonial,' and I almost fell off my chair.
No one, in other words, would fall off their chair on the news that Greece was bringing back the drachma.
I first took to the boards as a shepherd in a primary school nativity play where, aged six, I staggered around gaping upwards at a non-existent star with a teatowel on my head; my dad, in his own words, "laughed so much I nearly fell off the bench".
I know I've done all I can as a mother, but the words that fall off your tongue do affect and do hurt.
A cartoon in the Saudi-owned, pan-Arab daily Al Hayat depicts the words Al Yaman Al Saeed falling off a cliff, in reference to mounting terrorism attributed to a resurgent Al Qaeda, a separatist movement in the south, and a rebel movement in the northern Sa'ada Province led by the Houthis, a disenchanted group of the minority Zaidi denomination -- an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Traders said volume fell off sharply as word of Enron's problems spread.
