Waiting, only to recharge my weapon, I ran from the roof, and down the first two flights of stairs.

And though silent in its flight from the clouds, and when it is taking its place on rock, or tree, or grassy meadow, how soon the gentle snow finds a voice!

He may play robbers and hide and seek because he has reached a "hunting and capture" stage, but the physiologist points out that violent exercise is a necessity for his circulation and nutrition, and to practise swift flight to safety is useful even in modern times.

They ministered invisibly to Damascius and his companions on their flight into Persia, alleviating the hardships under which the frames of the veteran philosophers might otherwise have sunk.

And while thus buzzing freely from fall to fall, he is frequently heard giving utterance to a long outdrawn train of unmodulated notes, in no way connected with his song, but corresponding closely with his flight in sustained vigor.

It was a wondrous journey to Barney, The pages of Sindbad alone seemed to have a parallel for the awful mysteries of that long, long flight through jungles of towering timber, whose leaves and bark were as unfamiliar as Brazilian growth to the troops of Pizarro or the Congo vegetation to the French pioneer.

The flight with Lucifer, in the second act, in the abyss of space and through the Hades of "uncreated night," with the vision of long-wrecked worlds, and the interminable gloomy realms Of swimming shadows and enormous shapes, suggested, as the author tells us, by the reading of Cuvierleaves us with impressions of grandeur and desolation which no other passages of English poetry can convey.

Flight at this moment might save all; I would at least attempt it.

We disturbed all the forest life as we galloped alonghares and rabbits scuttled awaywe saw their white tails disappearing into holes, and when we crossed a bit of plain, partridges a long distance off would rise and take their crooked flight across the fields.

Even when the stream is quite small, say from five to ten feet wide, he seldom shortens his flight by crossing a bend, however abrupt it may be; and even when disturbed by meeting some one on the bank, he prefers to fly over one's head, to dodging out over the ground.

'Twas a long, dark flight for our gentle dove, Our bird so tender and fair; But we know she has reached the summer land And folded her white wings there.

For ducks go ashore as soon as they finish feeding in undisturbed places, and very often make long flights over land from lake to lake or field to field.

"Accordingly I turned and went up the remaining flight on tip-toe, two stairs at a time, waiting beyond the turn in hiding till the coast should be clear.

Flight after flight I went up, meeting no one; and on the fifth floor I found that I had reached the top of the house.

Rise with the dawnah, very soon For me neglect a hundred plans; Direct thy flight toward the fount, To Tanina and Cherifa. "Speak to the eyelash-darkened maid, To the beautiful one of the pure, white throat; With teeth like milky pearls.

Let his be the eagle's flight towards the sun, and theirs to skim in darkness along the ground, like the course of the mousing owl.

More of you will die in flight than in battle.

There are few who have not observed a pigeon or a crow preserve, for some time, a horizontal flight without any apparent motion of the wings.

We, that spread flight before us, heard the tumult, as of flight, mustering behind us.

But here, of a sudden, the fugitives checked their flight as out from the barbican Walkyn leapt, brandishing his axe, and with the fifty at his back.

One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting.

A flicker passed in dipping flight above the pasture, and it seemed to him that never before was such a golden color as that upon its wings.

He took flight like one bereft of sense.

Some of the indigo-coloured jays of the lowlands shot in long level flight between the trees.

When, therefore, his flight along a crooked stream is viewed endwise