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Sentences starting with flight

Flight with the fawn was impossible. [4]

Sentences ending with flight

With his usual zeal he had gathered facts concerning the scene, which put my fictions all to flight. [4]
One man like you can put a whole troop of Egyptians to flight. [10]
She had never written but one letter to Jean Jacques since her flight. [11]
Under her loving words of consolation he soon regained his composure, and, still struggling against the rising tears, he cried: "Thank Heaven, there can be no more foolish talk of flight! [10]
Wisdom does not wish for flight. [9]
Would there be wisdom in flight? [9]
Like the eagle which had disappeared before the pilgrim's eyes in the azure vault of heaven, the radiant light on the pure summit summoned her pure soul to dare the flight. [10]
The Mokattam Hills were like vast dun barriers guarding and shutting in the ghostly place, and, high above all, the minarets of the huge mosque upon the lofty rocks were impalpable fingers pointing an endless flight. [11]
Mr. Brice's impulse was flight. [9]
Every admonition was vain, every threat derided, and the rebellious people had forced their leaders to go with them till, after a short march, they reached the Red Sea, whose deep green waves had forced them to pause in their southward flight. [10]

Short sentences using flight

He, Hosea, scorned flight. [10]

Sentences containing flight two or more times

A flight to Marienbad to get rid of fat; a flight to Carlsbad to get rid of rheumatism; a flight to Kalteneutgeben to take the water cure and get rid of the rest of the diseases. [5]

More example sentences with the word flight in them

But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.--[This is probably a misprint.--M. [5]
Many birds, not yet old enough for a prolonged flight, are likewise deserted and left behind. [1]
During flight, moths would often be able to escape from their enemies; nevertheless, as the hind-wings are then fully exposed to view, their bright colours must generally have been acquired at some little risk. [1]
She did her work quickly and with decision and despatch, and soon turned the panic flight into a quite steady-going march. [5]
Here stood a wooden bench on which Wilhelm liked to sit, watching the flight of his doves, gazing dreamily into the distance or, when inclined to artistic creation, listening to the melodies that echoed in his soul. [10]
He would sit with them at night, pondering with a secret satisfaction, they could see, upon the flight that he and she would take before night came again; and still they would hear him whisper in his prayers, 'Lord! [12]
They twitted me with the rapid flight of time. [6]
They flung themselves with fury on the foes that surrounded him, dealing death as they advanced, and putting the Cheta to flight, and soon Rameses saw himself safe, and protected by his followers. [10]
It had a wide, brownstone front, with a basement, and a high flight of steps leading up to the door. [9]
Woe to those who call by its true name what those blind souls call pleasure and enjoyment as serving to hasten the flight of time--not too long at the most; woe to those who dare raise even a finger against it! [10]
She knew not whither her flight might take her, but a voice within declared that it would be to an early grave. [10]
The chariot with white horses which he had evaded during his flight with Irene belonged to Eulaeus. [10]
And the moon, which was to cause this destruction, had but a short time before been the ally of his flight and favored him. [10]
When Carmen went, when Zoe fled, when his cousin Auguste Charron took his flight, when defeats at law abashed him, the house and mills, and stores and offices, and goodly trees, and well- kept yards and barns and cattle-sheds all looked the same. [11]
One month later, when a fine white surf of frost lay on the ground, and the sky was darkened often by the flight of the wild geese southward, they came upon a hut perched on a bluff, at the edge of a clump of pines. [11]
But contrary to what had always happened in their former battles, instead of the news they expected of the enemy's flight, these orderly masses returned thence as disorganized and terrified mobs. [2]
That the flight was to be northwards he was certain; but he had either misunderstood or forgotten the name of the place whither the sisters were bound. [10]
The word "escaped" was sufficient to satisfy the old woman; for her idea of ghosts was that they put others to flight, but did not fly themselves. [10]
Of what avail was my flight from the world, and my useless sojourn in the desert? [10]
Even while he was flying to her, her gentle spirit might have gone on another flight, whither he could not follow her. [5]
Admiration for him was born the day he pushed O'Meara out of his office and down a flight of stairs because he had undertaken to suggest that which should be done with the timber in Jackson County. [9]
Honora descended, and was almost at the flight of steps leading down to the office door when a familiar figure appeared coming out of it. [9]
In the right wall of the entry there were also two small doors, reached by a flight of steps. [10]
They were probably waiting for their comrades, for when the young wife had ascended the first steps of the staircase and looked upward, she found the top of the narrow flight barred by the tall figure of a soldier. [10]
Down we swooped upon them, glooming all the air with a quivering pall of dead leaves flung up by the whirlwind of our flight. [5]
A panic seized upon the foot-soldiers--they turned and took to flight. [4]
This sanctuary rested upon a lofty foundation, and a long flight of steps led to the cella. [10]
They were drawn up on two lines facing each other with fixed bayonets, a grim look on their faces that would certainly have put any Hun to flight. [9]
Agne's flight remained unperceived for some little time, for every member of the merchant's household was at the moment intent on some personal interest. [10]
She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail. [2]
Seeing their enemy unexpectedly the French fell into confusion and stopped short from the sudden fright, but then they resumed their flight, abandoning their comrades who were farther behind. [2]
But the French troops quite rightly did not consider that this suited them, since death by hunger and cold awaited them in flight or captivity alike. [2]
The fantastic clouds, torn and streaming, hurried up from the south in haste as if to a witch's rendezvous, hiding and disclosing the great summit in their flight. [4]
At last Paula took leave of her, bound by a promise not to pledge herself irrevocably to Orion till his return from Doomiat, and till the abbess had informed her by letter what opinion she had formed of him in the course of their flight. [10]
But it soon took flight, away from the furnace beneath. [10]
Telling the maidservants to wait in the antechamber of the orphan's court-room, he led the sisters to his own office, helping Eva up the long flight of stairs with an arm which, though aged, was still vigorous. [10]
I am able to view your inspirations dispassionately and judicially, now, and say "This one or that one or the other one is not up to your average flight, or is above it, or below it. [5]
So returning safe to the Fort, once more staied the pinnas her flight for England, which til his returne could not set saile, so extreme was the weather and so great the frost. [4]
While devoting himself to nursing his friend, he had thought far less of the new love-happiness which, in spite of her swift flight, was probably awaiting him through Althea than of the work which was to fill his existence in the immediate future. [10]
You are determined to keep faith with your betrothed and stab the heart of this highest of all wooers--after death he will be ranked among the gods--for such will be the effect of your flight. [10]
Erasmus, however, trusted to his strength and nimbleness and, instead of promptly taking flight, entreated Barbara to listen to him a moment. [10]
Somehow she seemed to him like a small bird on its first flight from the nest, or, as Patsy Kernaghan would have said, "a tame lamb loose in a zoolyogical gardin. [11]
Melissa nodded gratefully to her brother, but Heron remained firm in his assertion that to think of flight would be foolish, or at least premature. [10]
I was glad to get away, and glad when we had walked through the grottoes where Eusebius wrote, and Jerome fasted, and Joseph prepared for the flight into Egypt, and the dozen other distinguished grottoes, and knew we were done. [5]
When he tried to follow his master's flight he fell after the first few strokes of his wings, and usually among nettles. [10]
Ephraim's chains were to fall with yours, and everything was ready to aid your flight. [10]
This report seemed to be true, yet the Acharnanian coast, where the battle was said to have been fought, was so far from the southern point of the Peloponnesus, whence Antony's letter came, that it must have been written during the flight. [10]
I was obliged to await your return, because----Well, my flight from the hospital certainly was not praiseworthy, and it affords me no special pleasure to confess it. [10]
It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? [5]
Thus for a time they swung together in ethereal space, breathless with the motion of their flight. [9]
There was no time for flight, had she wanted to avoid him; he was on the piazza; he was at the open door. [4]
The birds fluttered through the little door and went, with a swift flight, directly to their goal. [10]
A stone crushed through a blind, wounding Laura's forehead, and so stunning her that she hardly knew what further transpired during her flight. [5]
Ask yourself after this how many lives will be sacrificed when your flight causes hatred and fury to reign supreme in the soul of the cheated monarch! [10]
I should think they could be watched farthest in their flight. [10]
While the Turks therefore prepared to repel a great army from that side, Kisell attacked with his ten thousand men, Ebersbraught sallied out and fell upon the Turks in the trenches, all the enemy on that side were slain or drowned, or put to flight. [4]
The goal of their flight was the little palace on the Choma. [10]
Paradise Regained and the Second Part of Faust are examples which are enough to warn every one who has made a jingle fair hit with his arrow of the danger of missing when he looses "his fellow of the selfsame flight. [6]
The French, avoiding the Russians, dispersed and hid themselves in the forest by night, making their way round as best they could, and continued their flight. [2]
The rapidity of the Russian pursuit was just as destructive to our army as the flight of the French was to theirs. [2]
As I left the rude taverns of a morning and jogged along the heights, I watched the vapors rise and troll away from the valleys far beneath, and saw great flocks of ducks and swans and cackling geese darkening the air in their southward flight. [9]
This is about the right distance," she said, and we paused in our flight. [6]
The events of the previous year: the burning of Moscow and the flight from it, the death of Prince Andrew, Natasha's despair, Petya's death, and the old countess' grief fell blow after blow on the old count's head. [2]
If we use the passage we can reach a dark place on the strand unseen, and unless some special misfortune pursues us our flight will be unnoticed. [10]
On the 15th the particulars of the Vienna revolution and Metternich's flight reached Berlin; and we, too, learned the news, and heard our mother and her friends asking anxiously, "How will this end? [10]
Its movement over the paper is like the flight of a swallow, while the quill pen and the steel pen and the gold pen are all taking short, laborious journeys, and stopping to drink every few minutes. [6]
The flight to the mountains of men high in authority in the Mormon Church and State, when this affair was brought to the ordeal of a judicial investigation. [5]
We went to the Milk Grotto, of course--a cavern where Mary hid herself for a while before the flight into Egypt. [5]
She came down the last flight of steps, slowly, and stopped in front of him. [9]
The spectre-knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows is become a spectre-earl--a dizzy flight for a callow wing! [5]
At the finish the judge was silent a minute, turning over in his mind the shameful picture of Tom's flight over the footlights; then he said, as if musing aloud, "H'm--I don't understand it. [5]
I alternated between the horror and the romance of the story I had heard, supplying for myself the details he had omitted: I beheld the signals from the windows, the clandestine meetings, the sudden and desperate flight. [9]
In the center the French had not got beyond Borodino, and on their left flank Uvarov's cavalry had put the French to flight. [2]
One battle decided the fate of half the world--it might be lost or won for a woman's eyes; the flight of a chieftain might settle the fate of a province; a campaign might determine the allegiance of half Asia. [4]
Surely it was the Egyptians whom Moses' curse had robbed of thousands of beloved lives, while the Hebrews had escaped their revenge by flight. [10]
Then came Actium, the disenchantment, the awakening, the fall, the flight from the world. [10]
It turned beyond the corner of the house, descended a flight of stone steps, and turned again. [9]
They both reached the bottom of the flight at the same time,--the woman insensible from the fright. [5]
Roused again by the baying pack, she leaped forward with better speed, though without that keen feeling of exhilarating flight that she had in the morning. [4]
The ecstasy of that triumphant flight! [4]
Others again averred that since her flight Carmen had become a loose woman in Montreal; but the New Cure came down on that with a blow which no one was tempted to invite again. [11]
It was evident that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. [2]
The name of that place--magic name, once so replete with visions of happiness and content--seemed to recall Cynthia's spirit from its flight. [9]
But there--what was that gleaming under the two palm-trees which, springing from the same root, had grown together tall and slender--was not that a flight of marble steps leading down to the sea? [10]
The first idea that flashed upon her mind was flight, instant flight; dragging him from that place, and rather dying of want upon the roadside, than ever exposing him again to such terrible temptations. [12]
Then a bird takes flight across the whitening air, another, and then another; the meerkat sits up and begs breakfast of the sun; lizards creep out upon the stones; a snake slides along obscenely foraging. [11]
His spirit had taken its flight to a land where all anxieties shall be charmed away, all desires gratified, all ambitions realized. [5]
Lassiter led the swift flight across the wide space, over washes, through sage, into a narrow canyon where the rapid clatter of hoofs rapped sharply from the walls. [13]
This year our summer is 6 months long and ends with November and the flight home to New York, but next year we hope and expect to stretch it another month and end it the first of December. [5]
This course was strictly followed by bench after bench as Driscoll traveled in his tumultuous and airy flight toward the door; so he left behind him an ever-lengthening wake of raging and plunging and fighting and swearing humanity. [5]
I see him stretching up the hill, part of him occupied by a flight of stone steps; and I can locate Stephen to an inch when he comes into my mind, for he just filled the stretch which went by the summer-house. [5]
And as he stood, the flute in his hands, his thoughts took flight to his Uncle Benn, whose kindly, shrewd face and sharp brown eyes were as present to him, and more real, than those of Luke Claridge, whom he saw every day. [11]
He had been standing opposite to her, as if spellbound, listening blissfully to the lofty flight of his own words. [10]
Only, when they spoke of the necessity of flight, he burst out again, declaring that the time had not yet come for such extreme measures. [10]
But he was soon surrounded by the chariots of the enemy; the king saw the enemy pull down the young prince's horses, and all his comrades--among whom were many of the best warriors--turn their horses in flight. [10]
The flight was so rapid that the Russian army pursuing the French could not keep up with them; cavalry and artillery horses broke down, and the information received of the movements of the French was never reliable. [2]
Their cries and shrieks echoed a long distance, but were destined to be drowned, for a dancing-bear had broken loose and was putting every one near him to flight. [10]
If not, a shorter flight will do. [5]
Before my flight she had been a tall, fine woman, when I came home I found her faded and dying. [10]
More unaccountable still, she did not move, now that she was free, but stood poised for flight, held by she knew not what. [9]

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