I alighted on the pavement and retrieved my cases from the boot.
As I alighted, I wished her good luck in that summer job.
So evidently is this true that, by a happy dialectic, my companion and I alighted on common ground.
And it is here, at W number 18, that I alighted upon the challenge of the bathroom hammock.
Casting around for something to watch on TV on Sunday night, I alighted on the Classic Brits – the awards that used to be the Classical Brits, for performers of classical music, but now, I'm not quite sure.
And so, as I alighted at the train station here Monday morning on my way to the offices of the British bookmaker William Hill, I resolved to answer the question that countless parents ask themselves at swimming pools and gym classes and tracks around the world: what are the odds that my child could someday be an Olympian, too?
I alighted in Hays, Kansas, a little nowhere stop in the plains, and then I stood in the cool evening air and watched the bus drive off back towards the highway – the distant hissing of brakes and the glow of the tail-lights, and just for a minute I longed to go with it, just to see, perhaps, if the next place might be better than the last.
The afternoon light melted into the horizon as we pulled into sleepy Jaffna and I alighted at my guesthouse.
I said to him, "The Romans would have called you Somnus, the Greeks Hypnos or Morpheus" (but Doctor Day looked blank), anything to forestall the wasp (Classics not his thing, I guess) alighting on the back of my right hand.
I said to him, "The Romans would have called you Somnus, the Greeks Hypnos or Morpheus"(but Doctor Day looked blank), anything to forestall the wasp (Classics not his thing, I guess) alighting on the back of my right hand.
