Sentence examples for back of a flying from inspiring English sources

Legend has it that Rinpoche arrived at the site on the back of a flying tigress from Tibet before spending three years, three months, three weeks, three days and three hours in deep meditation.

In 1916 Manhattan, Colin Farrell escapes from Russell Crowe's Irish gangster Pearly on the back of a flying horse (no, I have not been at the spiked punch), then falls for doomed ingenue Jessica Brown Findlay, who walks barefoot in the snow and has the hale, rosy-cheeked glow peculiar to Hollywood consumptives.

Take the infamous Tiger's Nest for example (pictured above) where Tibetan Buddhist Master Guru Padmasambhava is said to have flown on the back of a flying tiger, or the "Divine Madman" who was believed to have fought off enemies with a thunderbolt from his magical genitalia.

Or sitting on the back of a motorbike flying through the Thai countryside.

At least two audience members scribbled down long division on the back of a flyer that had been placed on each seat.

When I found her again, just before two, she was holding a page full of remarks that she had written out on the back of a flyer, and was shifting from foot to foot.

Secret footage reveals the moment a raft of household items shoot out the back of a fly-tipper's van.

The back of a flyer for one of the Inter Avinit club nights.

The next snaps show, variously, fish flying in a hot-air balloon that is really a big blowfish, turtles carrying whole cities on their backs, a flying saucer full of little green aliens, and some gigantic starfish disguised as volcanic islands.

Of course as we all know in the portrait the goddess is upon the back of Zeus flying around the heavens in a night gown.

"I don't think many armies in the world can do what we've done in 10 days," said the Colonel, speaking in the back of a combat helicopter flying only 10 metres over the desert trails and marshes below.