When a lizard runs away frightened from before your footsteps, you may know positively that it will fly to its hole, but your knowledge does not affect its purpose; nor would it, if your knowledge was as certain as Omniscience.
No time was lost on my journey; a single word concerning despatches for the minister making doors fly open and horses gallop better than the magic rings of the Fairy Tales.
Life's sorrows, with inexorable power, Sweep desolation o'er this mortal plain; And human loves and hopes fly as the chaff Borne by the whirlwind from the ripened grain.
There go our riches, and our hopesfly there; There go the faces of our best beloved, Whelmed in the vortex of its wild despair.
I am a product of those two factors, and at the speeds at which Aeroplanes fly to-day, and at the altitudes and consequent density of air they at present experience, I increase at about the Square of the Speed.
If some part of the surface is distorted, then its camber is spoiled, and the lift will not be the same on both sides of the aeroplane, and that, of course, will cause it to fly one wing down.
When perhaps by a gust of air the Aeroplane is blown out of its course and points in another direction, it doesn't immediately fly off on that new course.
Cabre=--To fly or glide at an excessive angle of incidence; tail down.
I think the wings lack airiness, but the workmen swear it is as if he would fly from the door at a whisper.
Baffled, exasperated almost beyond the power to restrain myself, I shook my fist in his face, notwithstanding I saw his hand fly to his pistol.
Nor should I have urged her to fly with me by night and in stealth.
The young crane cannot fly at this season: they are as large as a turkey, of a bright reddish bay colour.
Several flocks of geese and ducks fly up the river.
They'll only fly in perfect weather, and stick to the safe air routes.
And of course there was no trouble at all persuading him to fly out here with me.
Well, tomorrow we thought we'd flyup to Fairbanks and visit the University of Alaska.
I sort of thought we might fly out that way ourselves and have a look.
It was in 1762, travelling to London, that he came this way, suffering torments from the gout that all the waters of Bath had failed to cure, and roaring with apprehension whenever a fly buzzed too near his inflamed toes.
So Tantalus catches at the waves that fly His thirsty palate--Laughing, are you?
To flyfrom vice is virtue: to be free From foolishness is wisdom's first degree.
O, James," said my brother, "do you think we shall be able to make the Kite fly as high as the tree we are under?
Otto Lilienthal attempted to learn how to fly in a motorless flying machine.
These hydroplanes (they must not be confused with hydroaeroplanes) almost fly over the water.
When the dirigible started out it had to fly low, but as the fuel was consumed it grew lighter and rose higher.
I went creeping, creeping to the wharf like a fly on a tree.
For a veil we can just take off thisfly screen," and she pointed to white netting on the table.
He flicked his whip at a fly that was torturing Toochune, then said, calmly, "No, I am not.
Now it's a dangerous thing to be dancing, even if the moon is bright, for owls and hawks fly by night, and if they happen to see a bunny dance, they always fly down and break it up.
I'll go down to the 3 and 1-cent store and buy a fly catcher.
Don't you worry," replied Mrs. Cow, and she whisked a big horse fly off her side with her long tail.
They don't say a word; they just flyaway with one of the little bunny dancers and he never dances any more.
Oh, all sorts of waterfall music," said the peacock, and he spread his beautiful tail out like a fan and brushed a little green fly off his nose.
So off hopped the little rabbit, and pretty soon he saw the old gentleman bullfrog catching flies, and undoing his waistcoat one button every time a fly disappeared down his throat.
And just as she was hanging them out on the line who should fly up but Old Mother Magpie, and, my!
A Fox was drawn in for Cakes and Ale, And by a fly Stratagem lost his Tail.
In Dust he mayfly } As Fools gallop by, } And no body can say Nay.
The Wretched pray to make more Haste, The Happy say we flytoo fast; Therefore impossible to know, Whether I go too fast or slow.
What fly from her Eyes, and the Place whither I Must soon be convey’d to, unless she comply, Is the Name of the Beauty for whom I could die.
Darts and Shafts flyfrom her Eyes, and if one dies, one must be bury’d.
I comforted myself in the rear cockpit of our army DH with the thought that Bunny could fly as well as I.
We had to flyuncomfortably low to stay under the clouds.
I said I would fly with them as far as Washington and maybe by that time the weather would clear.
Then we would fly formation for an hour or so, practicing different tactical maneuvers.
I continued, generously implying that of course he had had enough bad weather to force him to fly on top of the clouds and out of sight of land for so much of the trip that naturally he got off his course.
HE NEVER KNEW Pilots often play jokes on each other when they fly together.
He saw George in Washington several years ago and asked him if he could fly him up to his home at Havre de Grace, Md.
You're crazy if you fly with him again," I harangued my friend, Brooks Wilson.
They fly boats out of the river side and land planes out of the airport side.
The Brookses planned to leave with me and fly formation to New York.
