Etienne Rambert satisfied himself that his trunks had been properly registered for Verrières, the station at which he had to alight for the château of Beaulieu.
Juve alighted and made his companion alight as well, paid the driver, and walked up the staircase to the first floor of the building.
With the earnest voice there was the fascination of a face alight with a noble beauty, eyes glowing as with lambent flame.
His handsome, boyish face, alight with a fine glow of earnestness and sincerity, made irresistible appeal to all but those who for personal reasons were opposed to him.
But Chet Bullard had ceased to note the passing hours or the swirling gases that came alight at the beating of those wings; he was asleep in a stupor that was as deep as it was timeless.
Beside him was the slender figure of Anita; following was a stocky man whose unhandsome, face was alight with a broad grin.
The train now enters San José, and we alight at the station.
We allalight and enter the historic and sacred edifice.
Even Hargrave's politeness was no match for his vexation, when he saw Lady Pelham, late in the evening, alight from her carriage, unaccompanied by Laura.
Her beautiful face was alight with eager inquiry and determination; her eyes roved over the landscape, as if seeking some familiar figure; but all was strange so far.
They turned, and saw Jack Delmonte, his blue eyes alight with eager gladness.
But not once does his eye alight on that feared handwriting; always his room is empty of that once so longed-for, and now dreaded presence.
He turns--his whole face alight with ecstasy--towards her, but his feet do not move to meet her.
It is this new Prue who daily steals with surreptitious haste to meet the postman, lest the eyes, whose love has enveloped her through life, should now dare to alight upon her correspondence.
Most alight on the college roofs; one sticks on a pinnacle, greatly to its owner's delight.
As a matter of fact, love of humanity is the commonest and most natural of the feelings of a fresh nature, and almost every one has felt it alight capriciously upon him when looking at a crowded park or a room full of dancers.
When the casuists shall have elucidated this riddle to their satisfaction, perhaps they will oblige by telling me how many thousand angels couldalight on the point of a needle.
But alight and remain there a few days, and you will find it hard to drag yourself away.
His Majesty, the Emperor, and the Young Empress' chairs went in, but we had to alight and walk in.
We helped Her Majesty to alight and followed her into the most lovely building I ever saw, the best one in the Summer Palace to my idea (name of this pavilion, Ching Fo Ker).
Whenever they alighted on Her Majesty she would scream, while if by any chance one were to alight on her food she would order the whole lot to be thrown away.
If I do not employ a bell-glass or keep an assiduous watch, rarely does the shrewish Dipteron fail toalight upon my patient and explore him with her proboscis.
Suspending their audacious patrolling before the galleries under construction, these spoilers of the victualled cells alight for an instant on a camomile-flower and lo, the thief is robbed!
At the moment of the pairing, the illumination becomes much fainter, is almost extinguished; all that remains alight is the humble fairy-lamp of the last segment.
They did not stop to alight on flowers; but flew onward, low and equally.
After the death of a member of a family, it has frequently been asserted that the Bees sometimes take their loss so much to heart as to alight upon the coffin whenever it is exposed.
When Locusts abound, the natives become quite fat, and would even reward any old lady who would say that she had coaxed them to alight within reach of the inhabitants.
Mountainous ridge after ridge we climbed, but along the wide expanse our eyes could alight on no lake; and only through a chasm, far away between two mountains, the lead-coloured water of the Sogne Fiord momentarily deceived the sight.
The domestic once more hurried away; and Adeline shortly beheld, from the window, two gentlemen alight from the carriage, and then carefully remove a third, who appeared to be in a helpless condition.
But scarcely do I alight from my carriage, when I encounter upon the very threshold of my home a party of revellers whom your imprudence permitted to celebrate their orgies within these walls.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon when Richard assisted his lovely young wife to alight at the door of his own mansion; and now Markham Place becomes the residence of the Prince and Princess of Montoni.
And now, with your permission, I will alight here.
He came in a chaise, accompanied by another individual; but the latter did not alight from the vehicle.
The sun stretched a sudden finger and painted the chimney pots red and gold against the smoke-dimmed sky, and with his face alight with surprised relief my friend died.
Notwithstanding this low speed the craft responded to the controls and Zeppelin a few minutes later demonstrated that he could alight safely as well as take off.
He left the motor running and assisted me to alight and then drove off to fulfil this plan, returning presently on foot, whereat we ascended the broken steps together, and Richard gave the old-fashioned bell knob a vigorous pull.
This seemed to help matters some, but it was almost dark when the granite block marking the township line was passed, and the windows in the houses were alight when he pulled up at the judge's door.
He hitched the horse to the back fence and assisted his wife to alight from the buggy.
His narrow eyes were alight with a passion that seemed unaccountable.
There was a faint flush on his cheeks, and the usual contemplative light had passed from his eyes, leaving them alight with a growing fire of passion.
She was still a shadow of her former self, but her eyes were alight with a wonderful peace of mind, and the joy of living.
His face was flushed, and his blue eyes were alight with earnestness for the subject of his address.
His eyes were still alight with the fire of battle which Angus's visit had inspired.
Her eyes were alight with a dreadful alarm, as she gazed incredulously at the hands of the clock on the desk.
Her eyes were alight with a rapturous joy and devotion, but she realized how little he desired the outburst of gratitude she was longing to pour into his unwilling ears.
At the head of the stairs she turned, and her eyes were alight with excitement.
As the birdsalight on the island after their flight from the mainland, a portion of the contents of the crop seems to be expelled.
In a South African City a great man had married, and the streets werealight to welcome his return with his bride.
And the streets and houses were alight in all the cities, the shipyards glared, and whatever roads led to high country were lit and crowded all night long.
They alight in a square; the people are there; they cheer.
After a half-hour with her, seeing her face alight with sympathy, her delicate lips often actually forming the words as he spoke them, the dullest person might go away on air, feeling himself a born raconteur.
Or we see the tall figure of the Doctor, stooping in the doorway between the two houses, a crowing child on his shoulders, old face and young alight with merriment.
The Princess turned with me, and we were in time to see him alight and run up the steps, radiant, wrapped in furs, and carrying a great bouquet of pink roses, such as grow in the Genoese gardens throughout the winter.
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.
A term used to designate an aeroplane which is provided with pontoons, whereby it may alight on the water, and be launched from the surface.
