Falling
There may be a time where the standee pivots about the point of standing and accelerates towards the ground; this is known as "falling". Ostensibly, falling either sideways or backwards is significantly more common than falling forwards, due to the front-facing nature of human feet. It has yet to be determined whether this is also true of vertebrates with different distal limb morphology.
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Famous quotes containing the word falling:
“It comes in, falling to its knees
but we can’t translate the language.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“with the plane nowhere and her body taking by the throat
The undying cry of the void falling living beginning to be something
That no one has ever been and lived through screaming without enough air”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.”
—George III (1738–1820)