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alight
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Definition:1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.2. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Hoping to find her alone, [he] alighted, as he always did, to avoid attracting attention, before crossing the bridge, and walked to the house.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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A thrush had alighted on a bough not five metres away, almost at the level of their faces.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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The car stopped at the front door; it was opened by a maid-servant; I alighted and went in.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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For all his adult years, Stevenson lived separately, in an ethereal universe of his own creation, detached from the toils and pleasures of conventional life, floating airlessly from story to story, island to island, never alighting long enough to be anything more than a wanderer, a visitor among worlds.
J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p.257 (2013)
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I had alighted from Joe's back on the brink of the ditch when we came up, and had not moved since.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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there ‘lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that she might sail in.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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It would have been as if a butterfly had alighted between his shoulder blades.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.158 (1971)
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