Flights

Examples

• On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Chadband's piling verbose flights of stairs, one upon another, after this fashion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I shall say you're old-fashioned, and prefer walking up the five flights because you don't like lifts. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The early flights with No. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• After many experiments they succeeded, and on December 17, 1903, the first airship made four flights at Kitty Hawk. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We imitate, says the guide in the Utopian land, also flights of birds; we have some degree of flying in the air; we have ships and boats for going under water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• At first few visitors panted up the long flights of steps to the breezy platform. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was up three flights of stairs backward, at an Italian warehouse. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They were ready to try mechanical flights in places where the wind-conditions were less favorable than at Kitty Hawk. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They are men of remarkable balance, and it was their quality of unremitting care that made them the wonder of Europe, used above all things else to the dramatic in men’s flights through air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• These stairs are a part of the bridge; they consist of three flights. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• You go up nine flights of stairs before you get to the first floor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The pictures were taken during the army test flights at Fort Myer, Virginia. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A German engineer, Otto Lilienthal, made a study of the mechanics of birds’ flights, and determined to learn their secret by actual trial. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In silence they mounted the three flights, and walked along the passage to a closed door. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• That meeting was followed by others in all parts of the United States, and competitions for height and city-to-city flights became matters of weekly occurrence. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There are not half a dozen flights of stairs in Pompeii, and no other evidences that the houses were more than one story high. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He dashed up the three flights of stairs to the room in which Bell was. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Fuel can be carried for flights of greater and greater distances, and rapid increases of speed can be attained. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They had reached agreements with the farmers who lived near their field outside Dayton, and with the local newspapers, that no notice should be taken of their flights. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Sir Leicester sits down in an easy-chair, opposing his repose and that of Chesney Wold to the restless flights of ironmasters. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The flights could not be concealed and the trials were announced as thoroughly satisfactory. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Later in that same year they made two flights of three miles each around a circular course. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He tried a new direction, but made nothing of it; walls, dark doorways, flights of stairs and rooms, were too abundant. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A hundred feet front and a hundred high is about the style, and you go up three flights of stairs before you begin to come upon signs of occupancy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now, you know me; you know I am incapable of all the higher and better flights of men. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• An accident caused the flights to be suspended for a time, but a year later the Wrights were ready for the official endurance test, a flight of one hour, carrying a passenger. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But finally one of their flights attracted so much attention that a score of men appeared with cameras, and the Wrights decided that it was time to stop their experiments. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I felt the beneficial result of such excitement, in a renewal of those pleasing flights of fancy to which I had long been a stranger. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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