Use fly in a sentence
Sentences starting with fly
- Fly to the Syrians, offer them your strong young arm, and take no rest till you have avenged yourself on those who have shed the blood of your people and load you, though innocent, with chains. [10]
- Fly through the clefts, and the dim spark shall sleep in death. [5]
- Fly to a brother's aid whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. [2]
Sentences ending with fly
- A pleasant trip, yesterday, per Ballarat Fly. [5]
- But if you wish our friendship to continue, give up these foolish attempts to teach tortoises to fly. [10]
- Not that Daphne, who is stifling in gold herself, would care about that, but whoever knows life knows--where doves are, doves will fly. [10]
- Ten hours from Wanganui by the Fly. [5]
- But not in vain, for some day, and every day, along the line, there is a cry, "They fly! [4]
- But he clung to it with toes and fingers, like a fly. [5]
- The buggy seemed to fly. [5]
- His thought was, to fly. [5]
- But he heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. [2]
- So they gave the engine-driver a rupee and told him to fly. [5]
Short sentences using fly
- Fly, and save yourself. [5]
- We must fly to her. [5]
- They all fly off. [11]
- How the days fly! [10]
- Fly, now, and fetch it. [5]
- The whip-bearers are coming, fly! [10]
- Should he fly? [6]
- They will fly. [5]
- But fly whither? [5]
- We must fly. [12]
Sentences containing fly two or more times
- How she longed to fly into them, none but herself knew--to fly into them as into a refuge secure against the evil powers of the world. [9]
- Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from--will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake? [7]
- Fly, fly, or it is all over with you. [10]
- To fly one hundred and fifty miles across the Channel and southern England, bomb London, and fly back again by midnight! [9]
- It seemed to him that he would have given the world to escape--to fly from her, to fly from himself. [4]
- Don't we fly high or fly low, just as we please? [5]
- I do not and I will not know whether you are innocent or guilty, but this I do know, you must fly, and fly at once. [10]
- He him had accomplished in the art of to gobble the flies (gober des mouches), and him there exercised continually--so well that a fly at the most far that she appeared was a fly lost. [5]
- He him had accomplished in the art of to gobble the flies (gober des mouches), and him there exercised continually --so well that a fly at the most far that she appeared was a fly lost. [5]
- Then there is a fly, which looks something like our house fly. [5]
More example sentences with the word fly in them
- But even if you had wings, and could fly straight to him, they would overpower him if I cannot succeed in turning the left wing on the rear of the enemy. [10]
- You promise her, you break her life, you spoil her, and then you fly away --ah coward you! [11]
- I thought he would fly to the front, and be brave and noble, and stand up for me against all the world, and defy my enemies, and wither these gossips with his scorn! [5]
- I reckoned Tom would fly at his aunt and hug her head off; but if you believe me he set there like a rock, and never said a word. [5]
- And how they would fly around when he wanted a basin of water, a gourd of the same, or a light for his pipe!--but they would instantly insult a passenger if he so far forgot himself as to crave a favor at their hands. [5]
- To sleep there with them, and awake in the night and hear the wind in the trees, and see the sparks fly up to the sky, is a perfect realization of all the stories of adventures he has ever read. [4]
- I used to wish sometimes that I could turn fast enough to make the stone fly into a dozen pieces. [4]
- I still have wings, I still might fly, but here I creep like a snail--because it is your will. [10]
- No sportsman, however, will use anything but a fly, except he happens to be alone. [4]
- But, if you will that migraine to be far away, it will fly, and then I shall be near. [11]
- And yet she will fly up the stairs to don a fine gown at the first rap of the knocker. [9]
- And my people, who are also Thine, are encamped in a spot where Pharaoh's warriors can cut them down from all directions, so that there is no way for them to fly, not one. [10]
- Wise are they who anger not the gods, and who fly before the rising storm. [11]
- No; her arms which she had thrown up as if to fly, fell by her side it was all in vain. [10]
- By and by, whenever poor Yates saw him coming, he would turn and fly, and drag his company with him, if he had company; but it was of no use; his debtor would run him down and corner him. [5]
- But I laugh when the English come in the town, and when I see Bigot fly to his palace alone to get his treasure-chest I think it is my time. [11]
- How often do we see birds which fly easily, gliding and sailing through the air obviously for pleasure? [1]
- By and by we all retired to our narrow German beds; and when Livy and I finished talking across the room, it was all decided that we would rest 24 hours then pay whatever damages were required, and straightway fly to the south of France. [5]
- If when he was talking and explaining anything to a monkey, its attention was easily distracted, as by a fly on the wall or other trifling object, the case was hopeless. [1]
- 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]
- And when he was out of sight his comrades let fly their laughter in a storm of happy satisfaction--and then quieted down, and were less happy, less satisfied. [5]
- This is all very well, but when he tries to kick a fly off the top of his head with his hind foot, it is too much variety. [5]
- This is a very curious and interesting circumstance, and is a withering rebuke to those philosophers who would make us believe that it is not possible for any portion of the earth to fly off into space. [5]
- He had been urged to fly sooner, but had replied as became a pilot to reply-- 'I will not go. [5]
- Once he started up to fly, but he again heard the bewitching tones of her musical laugh, and mysterious powers detained him, forcing him to listen. [10]
- He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep'him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him. [5]
- He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep' him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him. [5]
- The birds get up from the water, and fly to a distant land. [5]
- For our factions, unless you would have me run away and leave the country, I cannot prevent them; because I do make many stay that would else fly away whither. [4]
- We pushed along, unheeding its fiery signal to bring to; and declining, she let fly a swivel loaded with grape, and again another, riddling our sail; but we were travelling with wind and tide, and we soon left the indignant patrol behind. [11]
- The common Yellow Under-wings (Triphaena) often fly about during the day or early evening, and are then conspicuous from the colour of their hind-wings. [1]
- Most of us tried to fly, but some got crippled and nobody made a success of it. [5]
- I would fly to you--but I cannot. [9]
- And Miss Tavish; to whom did she fly in this peril? [4]
- No one comes to the house; nothing disturbs the deep repose; hardly a voice is heard; you catch the ticking of the clock in the kitchen, or the buzzing of a fly in the parlour, all over the house. [14]
- It was horrible to see the iron helmets fly into fragments under his dreadful ax. [5]
- Thus we fly to literature in crises of the heart! [9]
- Her impulse was to fly, nor could she tell what force that stayed her feet. [9]
- The yacht seemed to fly towards the long, hulking steamer. [4]
- A wild desire to fly took possession of him at the same time, and it seemed as if he were only fourteen years old once more. [10]
- Suppose you had to fly that distance with your wings--wouldn't eternity have been over before you got here? [5]
- We can't afford to fly in the face of the dear public. [9]
- They are able to fly a hundred yards. [5]
- They cannot fly to either place. [7]
- At the same time I saw a part of our men turn to fly, and I called them back with furious words; then they turned round and followed me again. [10]
- I could never till yesterday bear to see a fly hurt. [10]
- Don't we fly through the air? [5]
- He must receive this before he learns of the reward placard--before he rises in the morning--lest he lose his head and fly the place penniless. [5]
- But presently, while they sat talking of many things, the canvas of the fly was thrust back with a quick movement, and who should come stooping in but General Sherman himself. [9]
- I have found they all like to see the Flag fly, and that their hearts rise when they see the Stars and Stripes. [5]
- Should he leave these reasonably comfortable quarters and fly from this inscrutable horror? [5]
- Do you know then what it is when the pipes sound, and the lutes tinkle, and our feet fly round in circles as if they had wings? [10]
- Adam had told them to fly to the cellar, if any uproar arose outside the door. [10]
- They appear with their wings, of course, because they are on official service, and because the dying persons wouldn't know they were angels if they hadn't wings--but do you reckon they fly with them? [5]
- Believe me, directly the war is over, if I am still alive and still loved by you, I will throw up everything and fly to you, to press you forever to my ardent breast. [2]
- I fly from the storm with a broken wing. [11]
- We were of the old Florentine nobility"--Rowena's heart gave a great bound, her nostrils expanded, and a fine light played in her eyes--"and when the war broke out, my father was on the losing side and had to fly for his life. [5]
- The passage across the Nile had been accomplished but slowly, and thus the royal personages had experienced for the first time some of the many difficulties and delays which ordinary mortals must conquer to attain objects which almost fly to meet their rulers. [10]
- So long as the mother's wings cover it, the young bird doesn't fly so thoughtlessly out of the warm nest into the wide world. [10]
- She trembled at the idea; yet, if she tried to fly from him, all she loved would be lost. [10]
- You yourself are the greatest.--Did you give the Syrian your emerald to sell in order to fly from this house with the money?--You are silent? [10]
- What fly will the English fish rise to? [11]
- As he neared the door, he heard a voice singularly sweet, and another of commoner calibre was joining in the refrain of a song: "'Oh, traveller, see where the red sparks rise,' (Fly away, my heart, fly away! [11]
- We stan' at the door and look out, and all the prairie is green, and the sun stan' up high like a light on a pole, and the birds fly by ver' busy looking for the summer and the prairie-flower. [11]
- Left Napier in the Ballarat Fly the one that goes twice a week. [5]
- The theory is that, fly-fishing being a high art, the fly must not be a tame imitation of nature, but an artistic suggestion of it. [4]
- I will wager that there's not one real Egyptian, who would not rather fly from the battle-field than take aim at one of these sacred animals. [10]
- I know now that I must not fly, and that I must bear whatever fate the gods may send me. [10]
- And pious and thankful both, when Providence or one of us sends him a fly. [5]
- I had to telegraph and countermand the order for special sleeping car; and in fact we all had to fly around in a lively way and undo the patient preparations of weeks--rehabilitate the dismantled house, unpack the trunks, and so on. [5]
- Possibly I may succeed; but you--you scorn it, and fly from her son. [10]
- For instance, the student's sword may break, and the end of it fly up behind his antagonist's ear and cut an artery which could not be reached if the sword remained whole. [5]
- There was nothing strange in that, because, as the Inspector of the Riders said "That lot is too fly to do the job themselves; you bet they paid others to do it. [11]
- He does not stop to load, or consider, or take aim, but lets fly just as he stands. [5]
- Bartja's fall on stepping ashore had disturbed her, and she had with her own eyes seen an owl fly from the left side close by his head. [10]
- There fly the Stars and Stripes from the general's tent. [9]
- And as she stared, uncertain whether to stay or fly, the color surged into her cheeks and mounted to her fair forehead. [9]
- But Cynthia remained standing, ready to fly. [9]
- First let me speak; and then open the door, and if I want to fly let me go without saying or asking me another word.--Give me that chair; I must sit down. [10]
- The fly sees some things, not very intelligently, but he cannot help seeing them. [6]
- I, who had so often wished to fly, lay like my own corpse. [10]
- Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? [7]
- The creature only sneezed, and passed its hand over its eyes as if to brush away a fly. [10]
- And yet she showed no wear, no weariness, and but seldom let fly her temper. [5]
- Before Crozier came she had enjoyed existence as existence, wondering often why it was she wanted to spring up from the ground with the idea that she could fly, if she chose to try. [11]
- As soon as she comes, the little brown birds and the doves all fly that way, and look up expectant at her. [4]
- In Italy I shall learn to fly, and when I have finished my Holy Family and my Temple of Art, with all the skill I intend to attain. [10]
- Have you never seen the fly and the spider in the web? [11]
- She herself had seen the Due de Chambly fall; had seen this man fly from Paris for his life; and had thereafter known of his return to favour at the court of Mary and Francis, for nothing could be proved against him. [11]
- The other one seemed to fly, but I did not see its wings. [10]
- How could he see that little pellet fly through the air and enter that distant bullet-hole? [5]
- At last you see daylight; now, take to your heels and fly! [10]
- He was horrible scared, but he laid into his work for all he was worth, and hung tight to the arm-loops and made his legs fairly fly. [5]
- Now, if on Saturday night at a moment before midnight we could fly in an instant to a point fifteen degrees west of here, he would hold possession of the power another hour, for the change observes local time and no other. [5]
- You know that sailors don't fly around worth a cent unless you swear at them--so the mate that can do the best job of swearing is the most valuable man. [5]
- Upon the same rule, Why might not I fly from the decision against me in Sangamon, and get up instructions to their delegates to go for me? [7]
- The bees circle round a queenless hive in the hot beams of the midday sun as gaily as around the living hives; from a distance it smells of honey like the others, and bees fly in and out in the same way. [2]
- Murray Bradshaw was ready to land his fish now, but he was not quite sure that she was yet hooked, and he had a feeling that by this time she knew every fly in his book. [6]
- Snatch the curious prize, Give it a place among thy treasured spoils Fossil and relic,--corals, encrinites, The fly in amber and the fish in stone, The twisted circlet of Etruscan gold, Medal, intaglio, poniard, poison-ring, --Place for the Memphian beetle with thine hoard! [6]
- Her natural impulse--the primeval one of a creature which is hurt--had been to hide herself; to fly to her own room, and perhaps by nightfall the courage would come to her to ask him the terrible questions. [9]
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