All at once two other ones flew out from the enclosure, and, alighting together upon the greensward, a curious play, which I took to be of a nuptial character, commenced between them.
Alighting on one of the supporting boughs that project from the mass of sticks, he walks down it with stealthy step and wary mien, the long neck craned forward, yet bent into a stiff, ungraceful S.
The first shades of evening were showing themselves when Bathsheba reached home, where, silently alighting and leaving the horse in the hands of the boy, she proceeded at once upstairs.
Not a footstep or wheel was audible anywhere around, and the dead silence was broken only by a heavy particle falling from a tree through the evergreens and alighting with a smart rap upon the coffin of poor Fanny.
It was still the beaming time of evening, though night was stealthily making itself visible low down upon the ground, the western lines of light raking the earth without alighting upon it to any extent, or illuminating the dead levels at all.
Soon after alighting they collect together and make a short excursion over the water, again alighting a short distance from where they had previously taken wing.
When alighting near the nest either sex has the habit of raising its wings perpendicularly and slowly folding them, all the while uttering a trilling peep, continued for several seconds.
In alighting such a bird may swim on puddles of water between the stubble where the others are wading.
Often when alighting on the tundra, as soon as they stopped up went one wing, followed soon after, perhaps, by the other.
Soon both spoonbills flew off across the lagoon and disappeared, but the male returned promptly, alighting quietly near the margin of the pond.
On rising she flew from 35 to 40 yards, calling as above mentioned, and then, alighting among some grass, seemed to flutter along, still retaining hold of the chick.
It shows no signs of fear at such times, often alighting on the ground within ten or fifteen yards, standing for an instant with its beautifully marbled wings poised above it, a perfect picture of parental solicitude.
By a succession of these collapses, falls, recoveries, and short flights the acrobatically inclined bird finally reached the ground, alighting in the grass near me.
As he draws near he raises his wings high above his head for an instant as when alighting on the ground after a flight.
Just before alighting the wings are opened and held vertically for a second or two afterwards.
One wing will be held vertically extended for a few seconds after alighting and may be flashed at short intervals thereafter.
They circled and recircled, turned and twisted, some of the flocks finally alighting in some smooth streaks in the water inshore of a long line of net stakes that extended about a mile out.
Just before alightingthe wings are raised until the tips nearly touch over the back and for a moment held outstretched and then slowly folded.
Capra aegagrus) of the Himalayas and, as it is also said with the ibex, namely that when the male accidentally falls from a height he bends inwards his head, and by alighting on his massive horns, breaks the shock.
I was recently told that two crows alighting on a house betokens a death, and a very peculiar instance was given.
A crow alightingin front of anyone walking is unlucky.
Now when Sharrkan heard these words, his heart flew from his breast with sore trouble; and, alighting from his steed in amazement, he kissed the Recluse's hands and feet.
While he was eating of it, another crow came, and, alighting a few yards away, slowly walked up to within a few feet of this fellow and stopped.
Dubourg went forward laughing to salute the company, declaring that that was the usual way of alighting from a carriage in Poland.
Alighting at Forty-fifth Street, Joan hastened westward, past Fifth Avenue and Sixth to Longacre Square.
The pale faces and disordered appearance of alighting passengers told plainly how rough had been the passage from Calais.
He observed that the birds kept fluttering about, alighting for a few moments and flying off again, all the time that Dumsby was at work, yet Dumsby never failed to seize his prey.
Alighting he rushed to the projecting buttress and gazed up the valley.
Alighting there, he left the aeroplane in Fazl's charge, and, feeling very shaky on his legs after the exhausting and nervous work of the past two hours, he walked back to meet the British officer.
For a moment or two he lost control of the machine, and instead of alighting evenly, one side hit the ground first, and it toppled over.
He could not tell whether it was as level as it seemed; all that he was sure of was that it allowed room for alighting and was free from considerable obstructions.
By alighting when they next passed him he would again save while they were expending, and however large their supply had been when they started, it could not much longer stand the drain of continual flight up and down the river.
If the ground proved to be less smooth than it seemed, the shock of alighting might well be severe enough to explode the dynamite.
As day begins to dawn, the bustard will take a flight in the direction of the well, alighting at a point some few hundred yards distant.
Before alighting Mr. Firth cautioned Miss Gerard to look well to the door of her chamber, to nerve her courage, and on no account to enter into conversation with any of the inmates.
We have studied the subject a great deal, and we think the best way is, to throw yourself out, and trust to chance for alighting on your feet.
As long as I live, I shall never forget John Paul's alighting upon the bridge of the Sark to rid himself of a mighty farewell address to Scotland he had been composing upon the road.
At the Hampton station she took the trolley, alighting at the Common, following the narrow path made by pedestrians in the heavy snow to Fillmore Street.
Yes, my lady, I saw him alighting as we passed the door.
He recalled old clashes of wit, and here and there a spark struck out between them, that, alighting on the flesh, had burned him.
Once in a long while, indeed, by lucky chance he would succeed in catching in one of these wild leaps, a snipe which flew too low over the ditch or paused on hovering wing before alighting to forage on the populous ooze.
With a frantic leap he shot through the air, alighting just beside the mouth of the burrow.
The injury is effected by great violence—by the body being projected and alighting awkwardly—by a fall on the breech from a height, the head and trunk being bent forcibly forwards—by direct blows on the spine.
The injury was occasioned by the person falling backwards over a high paling, on which he was sitting, and alighting on the back of the head: along with the proper ligaments, the spinal chord is seen to be torn.
His Majesty on alighting said to him, "Monsieur le Cure, we come to ask your hospitality for a night.
Within two minutes the Morane gave a quick dive, then flattened out and skimmed the ground, and just before alighting the nose of the machine gave a short, quick, upward dart.
After alighting from the cars, their first mission was to seek a restaurant, and from that point they soon reached the post office, only to be again disappointed.
Apparently satisfied with this display of his accomplishments, he spread his wings, and flew heavily across the lake, alighting not far from the shore, whence we could hear him occasionally uttering a shrill cry.
We were under too much headway to be able to stop, and jumping together down the steep bank, we narrowly missed alighting upon Max, as he lay extended on the ground, scooping up water with his hand, from the basin of a small pool.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alighting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
