43 Metaphors for flight

At length, the desertion being manifest, there is a general rush to the pavilions of the consuls, of those who announced the flight of the enemy so precipitate, that they left their camp, with their tents standing; and, that their flight might be the more secret, that numerous fires were left.

President Poincaré, on July 15th, 1915, declared the Nuremberg flight to be a fable.

11 This flight of the pleasure-seekers was the first revelation of the way in which war would hurt the non-combatant and sacrifice his business or his comfort to its supreme purpose.

The flight, however, of the spearmen, whom the Numidians attacked first, was the most disorderly.

A commonplace bird, like a sparrow, scarcely requires this except as a brake when in the act of alighting; but to those birds with which flight is an art and an accomplishment, an expansive forked or rounded tail (there are two patents) is indispensable.

The step-topped arch is distinctly Oriental in form, yet flights of steps or terraces are also thoroughly Incaic.

" The next flight was a race six times round the course.

They attack human beings precisely as they attack all animals, and precipitate flight is the only resort.

Flight was the only alternative for Sandford.

Flight is confession, Philidor." "Hm," said Markham.

Flight, instant and permanent, had been his original intent.

The most beautiful Flight into Egypt I have ever seen, is a composition by Gaudenzio Ferrari.

The literature of the present lay about on the tables, and testified that the highest intellectual flight of the inhabitants of Rood Hall was a dip into the Contemporary or the Nineteenth Century, or the perusal of the last new scandal in the shape of Reminiscences or Autobiography.

Though slim, and in excellent condition for thirty-nine, Adelaide could not conceal that four flights were an exertion.

To the gregarious individual who seeks and misses his kind, the place is loneliness itself after the flight of the gay birds who for a time strutted about in gorgeous plumage twittering the time away; to the man who loves to be in close and undisturbed contact with nature, who enjoys communing with the sea, who would be alone on the beach and silent by the waves, the flight of the throng is a relief.

"Our flight may be a joke on them, as we intend to draw them after us," said Robert, "but constant running turns it into a joke on us too.

" "No; as he presented it, such a flight would have been a piece of cowardice altogether different from my flight last night.

To add to the horror of this conviction, each member of the party, not excepting the muleteers, was painfully conscious of the escape of that vital warmth whose total flight was death.

Whether the flight of Cleopatra was the result of terror, or followed from preconcerted action, is still a question for discussion; and one would not readily believe that the most gallant and manly of all the Roman leadersone of the very few of his race who were capable of generous actionswas also capable of plotting deliberately to abandon his followers, when the chances of battle had not been tried.

The flight of Mrs. Lascelles was the next discovery; desperate deductions were drawn at once.

When he writes in the serious way; the highest flight of his Fancy is some miserable antithesis or seeming contradiction: and in the comic; he is still reaching at some thin conceit, the ghost of a jest, and that too flies before him, never to be caught.

"Motion is a Genus; Flight, a Species; this Flight or that Flight are Individuals.

Rapid flight was now their only security; every place incapable of an effectual defence was immediately abandoned.

My brother Gloster got thy liberty, Whose flight was cause of thy captivity: Nor shall there be in us such negligence, Though thou have lost thy office and thy house, But we will see thee better far provided Than

Only when a corner had to be negotiated did the car slow down, and then never to the point of sanity; and the turn once rounded, its flight would again become headlong, lunatic, suicidal.

43 Metaphors for  flight