How To Use Alight In A Sentence
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Please urge all ultralight owners with BRS units (or even hand-deploy parachutes) to re-evaluate the series of attachments that connect the pilot to the airplane, to the parachute, and to both.
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After a pleasant trip, Richard and I alighted from the train at Kal.
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The latest additions to home collection includes bowls, boxes, picture frames, tealights and window ornaments.
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Despite those twenty years, it was the same old Tom Travers that alighted from the Pullman.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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An olive grove is alight, fire spreading in the dry heat, and the hillside is consumed by flames.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Captain shrieked, his face alight with fury.
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To give extra thrust, the engine reheat method was used which alights fuel in the jet pipe, giving her the title ‘Rocket’.
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Thurgh thyn humblesse, the goost that in thalighte,
The Canterbury Tales
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A big, majestic study for this sculpture, in pastel, charcoal and acrylic on brown paper, finds two shadowy birds alighting, and a ghostly doubled head, its mouth stretched painfully wide.
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My eye alighted on an old book.
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When we arrived a number of pallets had been stacked up against the outside the building and set alight.
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Firefighters said the man had emptied his cigarette stubs into a bin without checking if they were alight or not.
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About 5.00 am the Paschal Fire will be set alight and it will be blazing brightly in the sky as people file up for the 6.00m Mass.
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Kathryn nodded; her bright blue eyes alight with excitement.
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A cigarette set the dry grass alight .
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But family folk groups do not normally set the charts alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leaf-green pierid butterflies alight on the sandy shores of the Tuichi River in Bolivia's Madidi National Park.
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The schoolboy racer is planning to set the drag car world alight - at the age of eight.
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He alighted on the word beau hurriedly, like a bird coming to ground with a little bounce.
Twilight in Italy
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Firefighters battled for almost 24 hours to bring the blaze under control as flammable chemicals caught alight, spreading the flames to other floors.
Times, Sunday Times
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He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight.
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The whole place would be alight with flares, the old cotton flares with waste.
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Firefighters battled for almost 24 hours to bring the blaze under control as flammable chemicals caught alight, spreading the flames to other floors.
Times, Sunday Times
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The car was set alight and pushed over a hill.
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It had been raining, so he used the petrol to help set the bonfire alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything was in shambles, set alight with fire and misted by smoke.
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The first sip is more blueberry fruit along with alight amount of malt and almost no hops.
The New York Cork Report
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People were encouraged to come out to the airport for tandem and ultralight flights.
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He had alighted from the bus, and a boy offered to carry his case to his homestay.
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Firefighters battled for almost 24 hours to bring the blaze under control as flammable chemicals caught alight, spreading the flames to other floors.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mule was on holiday, but the fire was alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alighting from a shuttle bus, the merry band of revellers spot a dosser lying prone and fully concealed under a blanket inside a bus shelter.
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The white bird alighted behind the other, his huge wings spread in protection and possession.
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‘We'll have ultralights, light aircraft and general aviation - like Cessnas and a couple of warbirds including a twin pioneer, which people can have joyrides on,’ John said.
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The percussionists alight from the front seat to do their own unloading.
Music in the streets
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Her gaze alighted on something.
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
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Should the fly alight at too great a distance for even a second leap, the blenny moves slowly towards it like a cat to its prey, or like a jumping spider; and, as soon as it gets within two or three inches of the insect, by a sudden spring contrives to pop its underset mouth directly over the unlucky victim.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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I've used alot of berkeley and trilene, I've been real impressed w/Vanish's strength and castability, and have been slowly switching most of my bass and ultralight reels to it when I can afford it.
What's Your Line?
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The fire had started accidentally when fat from the chip pan caught alight.
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I will definitely be more cautious in the future when boarding or alighting from a train.
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The ultralight construction restricts winter use, but for three-season backpacking or bicycle touring, it is an excellent bet.
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What is lacking is the match to set the bonfire alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are always little fires being set alight every day.
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Amid a spray of spilt drinks and nibbles, much cheering, dancing and backslapping, the unruly crowd vented their delirium in the manner of Indian cricket spectators, setting alight their match programs and letting off fireworks.
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From the overbridge the pair warned passengers alighting from the train to avoid the Leeds fans by going a different way.
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I had to use a bit of petrol to get the fire alight.
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Every year, at the start of the 68-mile Midnight Run in Chatham, snowsuited families alight from pickup trucks along the side of the road.
Chicago Reader
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candles alight on the tables
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I think a better tug would be a fancily flapped ultralight or a very large yet lightweight hang glider trike.
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The children's eyes were alight with excitement.
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The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished.
Times, Sunday Times
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against the darkening shore, eyes alight as she helped the seasick Monique to vomit over the side.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Mr Swales said they were also concerned about surrounding businesses as the blaze started to spread and set alight a fourth floor fire escape door on an adjoining building.
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With the footboard just 40 cm high compared to one foot for ordinary buses, senior citizens and disabled passengers can board and alight easily.
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It's devoted largely to author Twight's theory and practice of alpinism - his drastic gear weight reduction methods go far beyond simple ultralight camping.
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Whilst the chamade was beating, Colonel Cotton, sent by General Wills, rode up the street, and alighted at the sign of the Mitre: the firing meantime had not ceased from several of the houses: the common soldiers were ignorant of the real state of the case, and believed that General
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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Joining and alighting, for two well-separated weeks; multiply up to make a year's use, and - bingo!
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Joe and I were pulling into Vancouver having driven down the sunshine coast in pouring rain (hmmmmm) and alighted from the ferry.
Archive 2006-10-01
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He finally alighted on a solution.
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Photographs also included the burnt patch of stubble in the field that had been set alight by the firing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bikes, ultralight cars and even some regular cars don't exceed this flex threshold.
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I have been looking at motors for trikes since the ultralight motors from Europe are noisy and expensive.
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Police - using a drug-detecting sniffer dog - swooped on suspect passengers boarding and alighting from trains.
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When an edilleer, or one of the supreme council, meets a carriage, the gentleman who meets him must alight, and make him a perfect bow in spirit; not one of Bunburry's long bows, but that bow which carries humility and submission in it, that sort of bow which every vertebræ in an English back is anchylosed against.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
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A pair of orioles alighted on the frisking branch of a weeping willow.
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Among the dead were seven people trapped in houses set alight when a firecracker ignited a stack of fireworks.
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One fine May morning, William of Ockham was skirting the bosky woods, heading for open country in search of early mushrooms when a dragon alighted on the greensward not half a furling from him.
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Toshiba will shortly be shipping ultralight Libretto models in Japan based on Transmeta's Crusoe, and with a claimed battery life of up to 14 hours.
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All were made prisoners save one, Mrs. de Mello, a handsome three-quarter caste, the youthful bride of the Collector's clerk or first assistant, who had alighted from her palkee to gather some wild flowers that grew on the road side, a short time prior to the appearance of the mutineers, and from where she stood witnessed the attack.
Vellenaux A Novel
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She alighted the train and walked the short distance to her flat.
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ANC members in Stellenbosch this morning laid charges of arson and attempted murder after shots were fired at the home of a councillor and two other members´ shacks were set alight.
SHOTS FIRED AT ANC COUNCILLOR�s HOME, SHACKS SET ALIGHT
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Tourists who cut short their holidays said they had seen buildings alight and crowds of angry demonstrators in the streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby.
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On the other hand, fancy what an English Nation, once 'on the wing,' could have done with itself, had there been simply no soil, not even an inarable one, to alight on?
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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It's afternoon, about a quarter to one, and the sparrows abound, alighting in the numerous olive trees twisting in writhen contortion round the flanks of the pavilion.
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A single standard lamp was alight.
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HP Compaq makes a full range of laptops from ultralight portables to full-spec desktop replacement models.
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Laurence Olivier and Dora Bryan glancing up at it as they alight from the Brighton Belle.
Brighton Clock
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One of its biggest deals was the acquisition of the Insurance company for £1.1bn which it combined with its existing business, widely held to be the spark that set the whole telebanking sector alight.
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In addition to the manalight, there was the mazer, a two-pronged electric tazer.
Arcana Magi - c.10: To the Horizon
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Often she fell asleep with the candle still alight.
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A butterfly alighted gently on the flower.
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Cars were set alight, buses were stoned and fireworks and bottles thrown at cars.
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At one point they had to go outside to douse a fire after rioters tried to set a gas main alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
The Adventure of Black Peter.
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Inside a near-vacuum bulb, it stayed alight for more than half a day.
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No one I know has streams of sunshine constantly flooding their kitchen through leaded windows, alighting on creamware jugs filled with marjoram and chervil.
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In the bathroom, clean the loo, sink and bath, in, out, up and over, as if the President herself might alight upon them at any time, and get rid of any limescale that will suggest hard water problems.
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Her gaze alighted on something.
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
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HP Compaq makes laptops from ultralight portables to full - spec desktop replacement models.
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After Mr. Goines alighted to the stage and played a solo on soprano, Mr. Gordon climaxed the tune with a glissando and high note, phrased more like a saxophone than a tr ombone.
Singing and Swinging
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Pieces include square tealight holders, napkin holders, flared bud vases and a selection of glasses, decanters and candlesticks in varying sizes.
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Nor would I wish to crush a fledgeling creative spark that may produce something much better later, when such a spark is often so difficult to keep alight.
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The fire had started accidentally when fat from the chip pan caught alight.
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Mr Golightly returned his gaze to the mire where a curlew had alighted and was delicately foraging with its long curved beak.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Cole cares only about making money; Chambers is a self-taught intellectual, windily lecturing his pal on the history of wherever they happen to alight.
Tessa DeCarlo: Ebony and Ivory
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Residents said that fighters had fled, setting it alight as they did so.
Times, Sunday Times
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A classroom was trashed and walls were daubed with graffiti spray before the wooden library door was set alight.
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Using the term 'gnostic' for what you believe in all its depth and its totality was intended to reach a similar level of simple courtesy to that I get when unbelieving friends call me a 'pagan' - a good general term for roughly what floats my spiritual boat - rather than 'heathen' - the specific term for what sets that boat alight.
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This is stacked in heaps by the women and children and is set alight once it is dry.
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The fire was still alight, as a burning island floating on the water filled pit.
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Merlin alights from Siege Perilous -- one of the chair from the Round Table -- and is startled to discover he's been asleep for 1500 years.
The WritingYA Weblog: Merlin Revisited: The Seventh Chair
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Swells to the warm west-wind, in gales of foison alighting;
Poems and Fragments
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An olive grove is alight, fire spreading in the dry heat, and the hillside is consumed by flames.
Times, Sunday Times
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Often, the weight they're most worried about carrying around is inside their computer bags, where even an ultralight laptop, with all the accessories that pack on the pounds, can tip the scales.
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Further timber was then heaped round the base, soaked in paraffin and then set alight.
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Alight with enthusiasm, Professor Kaplan's conversation ranges from the ribald ditties sung by bakers kneading the dough in 18th-century France to recent moves for millers to supply flour in smaller and easier-to-lift sackfuls so as to encourage female recruits to the profession.
The Best Baguette in Paris
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The 31-year-old has never set the world alight but he has grafted away in the background and is the world's 39th best player.
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The family and their servants were then shot, bayoneted, their bodies hacked to pieces, set alight, doused with acid, and the remains thrown into a mine shaft.
Great dynasties of the world: The Romanovs
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As I slept, the moon outside shone brightly, and the black sky was alight with stars blinking down over my little neighborhood in suburban New York.
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As soon as I alighted from the train at the station I knew the ‘breeze’ would become a storm.
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Place a tealight in one bag on top of the sand and get an adult to light it.
The Sun
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There were moments when the expansive peace and receptivity of Shabbat alighted or the words of the siddur leapt into my mind, the words of Psalms or Torah.
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A car was overturned and set alight.
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The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished.
Times, Sunday Times
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The green and red panel lamps came alight.
Bomber
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Andy alighted, and gave a thundering tantara-ra at the door.
Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
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At least we are much nearer than we were in the era your rose-coloured glasses have alighted upon.
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The tree brought down electrical and BT lines, with a live cable setting the tree alight.
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The photographer's glance alights on small details of foliage or suddenly sweeps upwards to the open sky.
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It would sometimes take refuge in a bush, when the lark, not being a percher, would alight upon the ground beneath it.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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Martha looked up into a strange face and dark eyes alight with kindliness and concern.
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The racket was tremendous, and eventually caused Mara to rouse himself from study and look over the rails just as a fifty-foot high pillar roared past and set the sky alight with Imperial flame.
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The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished.
Times, Sunday Times
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In any event, the doors swing to nearly perpendicular to the body, making it possible to alight gracefully on the tall, upright chairs, rather than execute anything so low-born and cloddish as "sitting.
Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car20%
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But celebrations were happier in Australia, where Sydney's famous harbour was alight with colourful fireworks.
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The fire in the bucket set alight the sundeck and quickly spread to the rear of the house.
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An olive grove is alight, fire spreading in the dry heat, and the hillside is consumed by flames.
Times, Sunday Times
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The songs failed to set the world alight, but they impressed Fleetwood enough for him to invite them to join the band.
Times, Sunday Times
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The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where ancient myths and spellbinding tales will set your imagination alight and your hair on end.
The Sun
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The brake fern is dead and withered; the tip of each frond curled over downwards by the frost, but it forms a brown background to the dull green furze which is alight here and there with scattered blossom, by contrast so brilliantly yellow as to seem like flame.
Hodge and His Masters
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Then a great orange-and-black butterfly alighted on her knee.
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The green and red panel lamps came alight.
Bomber
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The songs failed to set the world alight, but they impressed Fleetwood enough for him to invite them to join the band.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Busk as usual, got out of the chaise and walked up the hill to save the horse - one of the chickens escaped, the boy alighted to capture it, and, possibly due to the noise of the chicken, the chaise horse bolted
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Do not alight while the train is still in motion .
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In February 1971, a fire broke out in the north-west tower near the bell chamber when a tarpaulin caught alight and another fire the following year destroyed pinnacles and woodwork in the choir stalls.
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No, this is going to be an anthology where every poem you alight on and read, you say to yourself, Holy God dang, that is good.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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English Nation, once 'on the wing,' could have done with itself, had there been simply no soil, not even an inarable one, to alight on?
Past and Present
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A spokesman for the London fire brigade said that part of a flat on the ground floor was alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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The air was acrid with smoke from buildings that had been set alight during the fighting hours earlier.
Times, Sunday Times
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An ultralight skin-resurfacing laser is then passed over the skin to tone down signs of blotchy sun damage.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flickering cine emphasised the tangibility of alighting on this terrible horror.
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This would be set alight and the bird served with much pomp and ceremony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Passengers waiting on platforms do not wait for people to alight before they board trains and so when the changeover occurs, pushing and shoving becomes the order of the day.
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And they still couldn't keep this iconic symbol alight.
The Sun
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The place was glitzily alight; sort of Christmas without fairy lights.
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The air was acrid with smoke from buildings that had been set alight during the fighting hours earlier.
Times, Sunday Times
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The members range from non-pilots to ultralight hobbyists to fighter pilots and astronauts.
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A new album, 1965, was released on Columbia in 1999 but failed to set the charts alight.
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But family folk groups do not normally set the charts alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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As soon as he came within sight of the Princesses, he began making signs to them with his hands and feet; nor was it long ere he reached the castle and, alighting from the elephant, came in to them, whereupon they embraced him and kissed his hands and saluted him with the salam.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Petite plants don't obstruct views for drivers or pedestrians, and a generous border of bluestone interplanted with bluestar creeper allows guests ample room to open car doors and alight without stepping on the plants.
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Vehicles were set alight and shops looted.
The Sun
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Tracey turned to George, her expression alight with curiosity.
Disordered Minds
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The green and red panel lamps came alight.
Bomber
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Indeed I spoke with one person who had just alighted from a train the day after the closing celebrations of the games.
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Gary Jeffery, firefighter from Colchester, said: ‘It is such a hot day that once the hemp had caught alight the whole barn went up very quickly.’
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More recently, he and some pals accidentally set his house alight after a firework prank.
The Sun
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Benelli's UltraLight 12 gauge was the last word in downy-light autoloaders - until now.
10 New Shotguns from the 2008 SHOT Show
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Two such figures alighting at the inn gate did not pass through the yard unnoticed and unadmired by the guests and attendants, some of whom fairly took to their heels, on the supposition that these outlandish creatures were the avant-couriers or heralds of a French invasion.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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As they poured themselves glasses of alcohol-free champagne, they covered the pile in petrol and set it alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Sigismund did no further mischief that night, except that, in achieving a superb entrechat, he alighted with his whole weight on the miniature foot of his pretty partner, which he well-nigh crushed to pieces.
Anne of Geierstein
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Would that mean that at the junction of the two you would be operating entirely different services with passengers having to engage in the tiresome business of alighting and boarding?
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-- Hydro means water, hence the term hydroplane has been given to machines which have suitable pontoons or boats, so they may alight or initiate flight from water.
Aeroplanes
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The cemetery is alight with candles that night.
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They alighted out of the coach and went into a poor woman's house at the bottom of Highgate hill, and bought a fowl, and made the woman exenterate it.
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In some skyscrapers, storey upon storey of offices were alight, although others were not.
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The sparrow alighted on a nearby branch.
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Three cars belonging to conservationists have been set alight, another was sabotaged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her gaze alighted on something.
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
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Chang alightweightas the wimpish Sun, and Taiwanese super - model Lin Chi - ling mostly decorative as Zhou's wife.
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I, though, remain on the train and alight one stop northwest.
Times, Sunday Times
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A postbox containing voting slips was set alight.
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When the woods are flooded with bloom, the leaves are almost unnoticed; when the country is aswing with music and alight with colour and the fields are full of seeded grass, the curves of the flower are softly effaced and rounded into the regnant fruit.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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The electric plane is propelled by ultralight 10kW peak brushless electric motors powered by 12 Lithium Polymer cells.
TRANSPORTATION TUESDAY: Personal Electric Aircraft Takes Flight | Inhabitat
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The tail is cocked when alighting and the bird droops wings when displaying.
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Covered in lichen and scrub, missing boards and held together with rusty bolts the rickety structure spans a deep gorge and alights at what is now grassland pocked with ponga and scrub: a farm long abandoned.
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At one point, they set alight a huge bonfire in the middle of the square.
Times, Sunday Times
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This fierce and buccaneerish person summoned the dozing hostler in a coarse, imperative voice, flung him the reins, sprang from his seat, and assisted his companion to alight.
The Redemption of David Corson
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I alighted from the train at Huddersfield and caught a bus to New Mill.
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A bird had alighted in the sand with a flash of blue and white feather, to peck at something thrown from the train.
Somewhere East of Life
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The latter and associated rubber air pipes caught alight and set the main avionics loom on fire.
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Take the keyboard, traditionally the weakest component of ultralight notebooks.
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What dost thou call alighting, or sleeping? quoth Don Quixote.
The Third Book. VI. Of a Wonderful Adventure, Achieved with Less Hazard Than Ever Any Other Knight Did Any, by the Valorous Don Quixote of the Mancha
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Alighting from the boats we went into one of the huge ‘refs’ and had some lovely tea and buttered scones, topped with jam!
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Rommel ordered houses upstream of the crossing point to be set alight in order to provide a smoke-screen.
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He said youths who started out setting cars alight often moved on to house fires and other more serious arson attacks.
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The figure is that of a bird caught by alighting upon a twig smeared with the sticky substance called birdlime.
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Her face was alight with anticipation as she set the chalk down, reached up, and began to unfasten the top golden button to her modest daisy dress.
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Clearly there is some reason why these birds of passage have alighted here, and I hope they're having fun.
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I alighted from the train at Huddersfield and caught a bus to New Mill.
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Guillaume makes an impressive debut and with more interesting material, his scenes with Anne Brochet would have set the screen alight.
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Like birds alighting for a while on a newly seeded lawn, they will peck away at all the possibilities until they have exhausted this area and then move on to another form.
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It wandered further, and finding a golden head that tossed restlessly upon a silk-covered pillow, it alighted on it, making the white face appear ghostlier still, and the wide eyes to shine like stars.
"Unto Caesar"
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Coming together with Inspiron 8000 is Inspiron 2100, an ultralight notebook that weights only 1.65 kg.
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They stole watches and cash from a safe and the pub was set alight as they fled.
The Sun
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She lit the couple's tealight later because she didn't want to disturb them.
The Sun
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Within hours, the speech had set social media alight.
Times, Sunday Times
