Sentence examples for swift flight from inspiring English sources

In the Book of Daniel, Gabriel approaches Daniel " 'in swift flight,' which is how our son came to us," Hirsch wrote.

A few hundred thousand guest workers, brought in for seasonal and agricultural jobs, know that asserting their rights could result in a swift flight home.

Hawk moth (family Sphingidae), also called sphinx moth or hummingbird moth, any of a group of sleek-looking moths (order Lepidoptera) that are named for their hovering, swift flight patterns.

The ball exploded off the bat of Ike Davis, and the course of its swift flight sucked the final bit of life from the crowd at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.

As they eagerly direct their steps up an elm-lined avenue, their thoughts move ahead "like a bird in swift flight" to where, invisible around a corner, there stands "a white private house......

It can, that is to say, succeed only on the scale of soap opera—"Milly Faces Life," "Death Can Be Bountiful," "The First Mrs. Densher," "Wings of Riches"—or on that of grand opera, with such arias as "O gentle dove!," "This heart to thy swift flight," "Fold now thy tender wings," "Ah, passion but an hour!" Thus, Meade Roberts's "Playhouse 90" dramatization was a unique achievement.

Although, in principle, higher aspect ratio and tip indices are associated with swifter flight [ 44] and variations in echolocation calls are related to utilization of diverse foraging habitats [ 48], the differences found between M. s. schreibersii and M. s. pallidus are relatively small and the ranges are overlapping.

It beats its wings deeply in flight, interspersed with a swift flying dip.

When they see their prey on a leaf, on a branch, on the ground, or even in the water, they take off in swift, direct flight, seize the prey with the bill, and return to the perch.

The genus name Pterodroma is derived from Greek πτερον, pteron, "a wing", and δρομος, dromos, "running", and refers to the bird's swift erratic flight.

He aspired to the idea of hawk: the high freedom, the swift and effortless flight, the sharpness of eye, the vertical dive.