Utiliser "alighting" dans une phrase
alighting exemples de phrases
alighting
1. Briefly, he turned to Nathalia, his eyes alighting on her wounds
2. We walked down to the tram stop and caught the next tram into town alighting at the stop across from the Intack Inn we ambled across the road and into the hostelry
3. She was a honeybee alighting on a golden daffodil
4. It drew up to the Loch, and there was the sound of people alighting
5. He broke from the cover of the trees just as the driver of the first wagon was alighting, and Colling shouted at him to get back on his cart and drive into the forest
6. Her sister was a local celebrity, a true social butterfly and like all such members of that species, she flitted around the city, never alighting in any one place for very long
7. I saw a tall officer alighting the vehicle
8. The train was half full but most of the passengers seemed to be alighting at Abermôr, so it was a bit of a scramble getting off and out of the station
9. It’s therefore highly unlikely that anyone saw this mysterious stranger alighting on the island; then making his way to the house, and into Third’s study; then making his way back from the house to the cove, and clear off the island again
10. the air alighting on top of the already prostrate fairy, covering her
11. Alighting in the sun, Faye took a moment to notice how perfectly the stables had been designed to coordinate with the hotel—the architecture was the same with white columns and even the same individually paned windows had been used to add a touch of class and elegance to something as simple as this
12. Blessing nodded, bloated with unease, silently alighting at the house, one hand stiff
13. Floy, alighting on my shoulder, reminded me there was no way Mordan would ever find us once we took off downstream in a small boat
14. “I’ve a better proposition,” said Floy, alighting on a long pile sticking from the water
15. It was only on alighting at our destination that I got a glimpse of the
16. Alighting at Lakdi-ka-pul from the bus she boarded at the Langar Hauz, she awaited a connecting service to Chikkadapally with the idea of picking up some bandar laddus on the way
17. Alighting from the bus dreamily, she sensed that he too got down behind her
18. That morning, alighting from the Dakshin Express at Secunderabad, Raja Rao headed towards the Ritz
19. More are alighting along the sides of the road
20. The traffic was in full swing, the crowds were swirling noisily around the Midan El Tahrir, on foot, in honking cars and bolting bicycles; people clambering on and alighting off leaning, overstuffed buses where you could not believe another single, harassed human being would fit in
21. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Him
22. Pleased by the flower petals that were alighting like birds from its boughs, she led him over by the hand
23. "From the time of our alighting at the outer gate (which we found locked, and which one of the brothers had opened to admit us, and had relocked), I had heard cries proceeding from an upper chamber
24. Two steamers and a sailing-ship crossed each other; passed each other; and in the bay the gulls kept alighting on a log, rising high, returning again to the log, while some rode in upon the waves and stood on the rim of the water until the moon blanched all to whiteness
25. "That he is," said the barber, and at once alighting, he offered his saddle to the curate, who accepted it without much entreaty; but
26. the crow with its bill, for amusement--and I triumphantly twittering, The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh
27. If anyone had been watching her, he would have thought her movements decidedly peculiar, for on alighting, she went off at a great pace till she reached a certain number in a certain busy street
28. Joe's alighting, and stirred up the fire that they might see a bright window, and took a final survey of the kitchen that nothing might be out of its place
29. As the carriage stopped at the door, and Albert was alighting, a man approached and gave him a letter
30. Chateau-Renaud perceived him and immediately alighting from his coupe, joined him
31. Alighting at the small wayside station, we drove for some miles through the remains of widespread woods, which were once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay—the impenetrable "weald," for sixty years the bulwark of Britain
32. Meade alighting from his horse
33. And then there was how swiftly he’d dispatched poor Mercer, alighting on his secret in a single swoop
34. He read and slept but mostly stared through the glass and tried not to make eye contact with the passengers alighting serially on the seat beside him: a bantamweight old farmer on a hemorrhoid pillow, an ex-con picked up at the gates of a jail, a Jehovah’s Witness in support hose who from midnight to two a
35. Thus Stone Court continually saw one or other blood-relation alighting or departing, and Mary Garth had the unpleasant task of carrying their messages to Mr
36. From the alighting board, instead of the former spirituous fragrant smell of honey and venom, and the warm whiffs of crowded life, comes an odor of emptiness and decay mingling with the smell of honey
37. And then, as if that had been a signal, there was chattering and chirruping in every direction, and then a moment of full song, and within five minutes the whole wood was ringing with birds' music, and wherever Edmund's eyes turned he saw birds alighting on branches, or sailing overhead or chasing one another or having their little quarrels or tidying up their feathers with their beaks
38. Tarzan, happily, was uninjured by the fall, alighting catlike upon all fours far outspread to take up the shock
39. Hence it will cause him no surprise that there should be geese and frigate-birds with webbed feet, living on the dry land and rarely alighting on the water, that there should be long-toed corncrakes, living in meadows instead of in swamps; that there should be woodpeckers where hardly a tree grows; that there should be diving thrushes and diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks
40. Flies kept alighting on her and biting her
41. said that he could almost fancy that he saw the Capitol in motion towards the falls of Ohio—after a short sojourn taking its flight to the Mississippi, and finally alighting on Darien; which, when the gentleman's dreams are realized, will be a most eligible seat of government for the new Republic (or Empire) of the two Americas! But it seemed that "in 1808 we talked and acted foolishly," and to give some color of consistency to that folly, we must now commit a greater