A white halo of hair hovers around his head, his walrus moustache is silver, and my soul alights when I realise it is my teacher, my maths teacher from elementary school, a likable man who suffered a tragedy years ago, I cannot recall what, and disappeared.
(wife) "It took me about eighteen months to get [the doctor] to... give her a test... later... my daughter... found the gas turned on and it's not alight, so... when I left for work I had to turn the gas off, then I really pushed the doctor".
Hands she wanted to feel on her skin, light and slow and graceful; not heavy, never heavy, but gentle the way a bird is when it alights on a branch or a stone, resting for a moment but never entirely settled, always light, always about to take off.
When they alight at the station, MP and spouse are reunited and the civil servant gives them a lift to Westminster.
Although the two fly in a tandem position, actual copulation occurs only when they alight, and the female bends her abdomen to receive the sperm from the male's organ.
When finally alight, the cake is delightfully colorful, festive and engineered for efficiency: there is no dripping wax, no risk of house fire, no worry of how to carry a flaming cake through a drafty hallway without extinguishing the candles.
In Westminster, policy wonks and thrusting politicians are so close to the cutting edge that when they alight on a supposedly visionary idea, much of their work is devoted to how to roll it out so that precious few people even notice.
In the Old Town, it is not difficult to get lost among the crazy-quilt streets, and you may be thankful that you do, especially when you alight at places like St. Anne's Church, as curious and enthralling a Gothic edifice as you will find.
When they alight on a headline that interests them, they just hit the space bar and they can read the article in the normal view.
A breakthrough occurs when actors alight upon (or conceive) the object of their quest in the form of projects targeting specific social objectives that give focus to their emergent self-identities (Dees, 1998; Fiol, 1989; Zahra et al., 2009).
