As if discharged from a cannon, came bursting through the window a helmeted figure, rope in hand, and alighted erect and commanding on the floor.
Long Sin alightedand entered the shop, while the Tong man eyed him suspiciously.
Cautiously they alighted and walked down the street.
Long Sin alighted and disappeared with a parting word of instruction from Wu who remained in the car.
From the Pullman alighted a widow, in deep mourning.
As the baggage was being tossed off, the passengers alighted and the five hackmen swarmed at them.
From it alighted the fussy old gentleman who bore such a remarkable resemblance to the fisherman, hastily paid his driver and entered the hotel.
Mary could see, however, that her father's face was pale with anxiety, as he hastily alighted from the railway fly and turned to assist his daughter.
He alighted from the cab, paid the driver, and proceeded towards the Australian packet, which lay alongside the wharf at a little distance from the shore.
A Grey Wagtail coming down stream in graceful waves of flight, poised himself over the stone, and for a moment actually alighted on it: then, seeing his mate pass down after him, opened his wings and was gone.
On our arrival at Lyons we alighted at the Hotel des Celestins, and the loud acclamations of a numerous multitude assembled round the hotel obliged Bonaparte to show himself on the balcony.
I alighted and crossed the Rue Nicaise which was strewed with the bodies of those who had been thrown down, and the fragments of the walls that had been shattered with the explosion.
But a widow and a mother, she did not give a thought to rustic jests; she alighted without fear; it seemed to her that scorn and insult ought to be warded off from her by her child and her sorrow, the dark and the bright angel.
In the midst of the volunteer guards' invectives, he placed two videttes at the door, and alightedto walk in.
A few days later, one of the quails accidentally trod on the head of one of his brothers, as they alighted on the feeding-ground.
But when we alighted I detected something new in her manner toward us.
Just where we alighted were several great, hewn stones by the roadside, with marks of much trampling around them.
He sprang from the top of the ground so that he alighted light and quick on the rim of Ferdiad's shield.
Cuchulain lets the spear fly at him and it went on high, so that from above it alighted on Nathcrantail's crown and through him it went to the ground.
Again Cuchulain sprang from the brink of the ford, so that he alighted upon the boss of Ferdiad macDaman's shield, that he might reach his head and strike it over the rim of the shield from above.
Then it was she alighted in the form of a royston crow on the bramble that grows over Grelach Dolair ('the Stamping-ground of Dolar') in Mag Murthemni.
He looked at the threadbare blue velvet, and he saw it was covered with the pollen of the flowers, and while he was looking at it a thrush, who had alighted among the boughs that were piled against the window, began to sing.
Sim and Arden quicklyalighted and helped Nate lift the still unconscious Jim out of the rumble seat.
He alighted from his horse, and, crossing the square, approached the church.
Escorval and Marie-Anne alighted at the Hotel de France.
They did travel all night, and the next day, about nine o'clock, theyalighted at the Hotel Meurice.
Arriving in front of a little hostelry, he alighted from his steed, handed it over to the care of an ostler, and without more ado went into the house and ordered the best entertainment that it could afford.
He told the coachman that Moor had alighted at the second station, and would ride with His Majesty to Avila, where he wished to find the carriage.
To me it is most memorable--the time when the one with a grouch, who never played, alighted in a moment of absent-mindedness within the taboo precinct and was immediately captured in my hand.
There was such a string of carriages that Pierston did not wait to take his turn at the door, but unobtrusively alighted some yards off and walked forward.
It stopped at the churchyard gate, and a young man and woman alighted and entered, the vehicle waiting.
He alighted presently at the foot of the steps, and throwing the bridle over his horse's head, joined the party.
Diana's thought made an instant leap at the words, a leap over hundreds of miles of intervening space, and alighted beside a fine officer-like figure in a dark blue military coat with straps on the shoulders.
Here he alighted then; and going straight into the tavern, unobserved by anyone, secured two rooms upstairs communicating with each other, and sufficiently retired.
He rode direct to Mr Dombey's house, alighted at the door, and begged to see Mrs Dombey on an affair of importance.
The door opening, without any note of preparation, and apparently of itself, the hard glazed hat in question skimmed into the room like a bird, and alighted heavily at the Captain's feet.
Here a gentleman, having alighted before the inn, stands with the bridle in his left hand and a glass in his right, as he talks to a man and woman seated on a bench.
A butterfly of the admiral variety has alighted on the rosebud.
Euro~Umar replied: "A party of travellers who alighted in the neighbourhood of the market: I was afraid that the thieves of MedA-na might fall upon them.
Toward night we all alighted at the door of the observatory, and the doctor and I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of a man of Mars who had spent many years in studying the surface of the earth.
When we alighted we left our carriage by the roadside among many others, and entered an immense building.
But there could be no questioning the right of the senior of the two officers who had alighted at Sancho's to the title of colonel.
His anger, however, was changed into the most exuberant joy, when I alighted safely on the road, shuddering at the narrow escape I had just made.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alighted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
