523 collocations for fly

She's flying the French flag.

I lost no time in letting fly several arrows, and at last one of the great animals fell to the ground dead, and the others retreated, leaving me free to come down from my hiding-place and run back to tell my master of my success, for which I was praised and regaled with good things.

Here are men playing cards; others are flying kites; many are thronging the tea, coffee, and cold drink stalls; while in the very heart of the crowd wander Jewish, Panjabi and Hindustani dancing-girls, who have driven hither in hired carriages to display their beauty and their jewels.

A Christian minister in Tennessee relates an act of fiendish cruelty inflicted upon a slave by one of the members of his church, and he is forced to leave his charge, if not to fly the country.

Muckluck turned and flew down the dark little stair, threaded her way in and out among the bystanders on the wharf till she reached the Sister's side.

And as he drew nigh the bird flew a little distance down the path and then lit upon the ground and he followed it.

Fly, fly the house at once!

The rest valued a chance to see the fight beyond the fear of random slugs of lead which might fly their way.

On the whole it seemed to the author that his book was flying false and undesirable colours, and since art lies outside the domesticities, he was hardly relieved when his wife told him that she thought the binding was very pretty.

" Another curious fiction prevalent in olden times was that of the barnacle-tree, to which Sir John Maundeville also alludes:"In our country were trees that bear a fruit that becomes flying birds; those that fell in the water lived, and those that fell on the earth died, and these be right good for man's meat."

Dare not to touch me, but hence fly apace; Add wings unto your feet, and save your lives. VIS.

Came a roaring crash beneath whose dire shock Sir Pertolepe's ranks were riven and rent asunder, and over and through their red confusion Sir Benedict rode in thunderous, resistless might, straight for where, above their mid-most, close-set ranks, fluttered and flew Sir Pertolepe's Raven banner.

Then the flagship flew the signal for resuming the voyage.

[Footnote 4: One man of the 61st Regiment was killed by a round-shot, which in its course also knocked over some sandbags which sent Lieutenant Hutton flying about seven feet.]

What then have you to do, but to fly this house, this infernal house!O that your heart would let you fly the man! >>>

Evidently the Santa Marie was willing to fly any colors, which would insure safety, or allay suspicion in her nefarious trade.

A new motor has been harnessed into the service of man, and made to fly with his messages swifter than sound?

But sighing, Beltane closed his vizor and heedless of flying bolt and arrow strode to the narrow stair that led up to the gate-tower and being come there sat him down beside the great mangonel.

Should he cross the line between the holes, the buried pieces would fly out of the holes, snap together on him, and, flying up the tree from which they came, would keep him prisoner for a hundred years.

A figure here and there flew along as if pursued, imperfectly seen, a shadow only a little darker than the space about.

Why, fellow-soldiers, shall we fly the field, And carelessly forsake our general?

The butterflya flying flower Wheels swift in flashing rings, And flutters round his quiet kin, With brave flame-mottled wings.

Full little thought of him the gentle knight, Who, flying death, had there conceal'd his flight, In brakes and brambles hid, and shunning mortal sight: And less he knew him for his hated foe, But fear'd him as a man he did not know.

In reporting this most remarkable occurrence Edward Price Bell, an American correspondent, wrote as follows from the front: A British observer, flying a powerful machine at 16,000 feet over Ostend, had the machine's tail shot off by the direct hit of a shella very unusual occurrence.

Kitty flew down the steps into the sleigh, unassisted, and Betty followed, her hand in Yorke's.

523 collocations for  fly