...When they came among the colored people of Bath, it was like a hawk alighting among a flock of chickens at noon-day...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...By-and-by, instead ofreturning as at first, they take to alighting at the entrance of thecoveted home; this is a sort of declaration of war, and marks thebeginning of hostilities...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...At the same moment three were chasing each other about thegarden, now clinging to the side of the poles, now alighting on theirtips...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...It was wonderful how much at home he seemed,—poising, backing,soaring, and alighting with all the ease and grace of an old hand...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...Without alighting they attacked each otherwith fury, pecking at each other and changing places just as onesees two barn-door cocks fight for the supremacy of the dunghill...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...One swarm had come out the day before, and, without alighting, had returned to the parent hive—some hitch in the plan, perhaps, or may be the queen had found her wings too weak...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...Witha soft flic-flac the great night-moths were flying round thewire-gauze cover, alighting, taking flight, returning, mounting to theceiling, re-descending...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...With a swift and angular flight, they go from flower to flower, without alighting...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Theimpetuous Hercules rushed and reared onwards as if to clear the wideexpanse; and alighting still lower, shot Sponge right overhead in themiddle...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...The black party heard it too,and instantly darted off, alighting again at a little distance...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
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