Flown

Examples

• One longs to be high-flown, and make speeches like Corneille, after it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown; Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone. Jane Austen. Emma.
• There's some of the birds flown from the cages. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Germany meantime was intensely interested in Count Zeppelin’s dirigible balloons, which, although as long as a battle-ship, had flown with great success. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A second since she would have flown to him; that second past, she would flee from him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The therns have ofttimes wondered whither you had flown, since you had neither taken the pilgrimage, nor could be found upon the face of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence of her husband with a good deal of spirit. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The motor was shut off, and the test was ended, the machine having flown for one hour, twelve minutes, and forty seconds. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Now, Margaret, have you flown out before you have read this far, and wondered what right the old man has to settle your affairs for you so cavalierly? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Not John; or Bella would have flown out to meet him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• While this had been passing, Eva had flown like a bird, through the porch and parlor, to a little boudoir opening likewise on the verandah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She took her own romantic, high-flown view of the matter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• On being informed, half an hour since, that her departure would be delayed till two in the afternoon, she had flown into a violent passion. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Go down and count thy beasts and see they have not flown away with any. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It sounds high-flown and absurd, but consider the facts! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then, if my friend of the night comes to revisit me, he will find the bird flown. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Not high-flown enough? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It had been four hours since the observation plane had flown over them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Our birds are flown and the nest empty, said Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• If the roof of the house had suddenly flown off, the old gentleman wouldn't have been more astonished. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Editor: Solomon