Alights
[ə'laɪts]
Examples
- Mr. Bucket's eye, after taking a pigeon-flight round the room, alights upon a table where letters are usually put as they arrive. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A great moth goes humming by me; it alights on a plant at Mr. Rochester's foot: he sees it, and bends to examine it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When the driver stops his horses, Mr. George alights, and looking in at the window, says, What, Mr. Tulkinghorn's your man, is he? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Ervin