Sentence examples for alighted from inspiring English sources

As for the literary judgment of librarians, to my mind the Impac panelist have alighted on more consistently interesting books than the Booker judges over the years.

TEN years after it took off, Hollywood's biggest film franchise has finally alighted from its broomstick.

His edition of "Mayflies of the Driftless Region" by Clarke Garry, a book that details the insect's ephemeral life cycle, is a case in point.Patricia Owen of California has fashioned a beetle-like shell in black and grey goatskin with green suede flyleaves, as if the mayfly had just alighted.

I would like to think people also recognise this is not something I have just alighted on out of nowhere; I first wrote or co-authored a pamphlet about this for the Centre for European Reform.

Brewers in Bavaria alighted on a new version of that age-old drink one that liked to be fermented in the cold and could thus be brewed in winter.

The president alighted to a burst of cheers and fire-crackers, to be garlanded and showered with flower petals.

He stopped the brougham at Hyde Park Corner, alighted and never saw her again.The lives of Irving's children, Henry and Laurence, are a tragic strand in the story.

And the nationalist government has alighted on similar ground from the opposite side.

Ministers have alighted on green industry as a winner of the future, with a global market now worth £3 trillion.

It was jealous of attention given other animals, kept close to its foster parents when out of doors, and alighted on their shoulders.

In 1679 he wrote his first verse in the "new style" for which he came to be known: On a withered branch A crow has alighted: Nightfall in autumn.