He alighted knee deep in water among the rotten bags, and all his observations were not recordable. |
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As soon as I had alighted at an inn and had drunk my tea, I went out immediately to see the town and the circumjacent country. |
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It was about noon on the 12th of May when we alighted shivering from the railcar at Saratoga. |
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A busy bee had momentarily alighted there, and, before leaving, the bee had pricked the tough hide of the half-breed. |
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Some American's concupiscent eye had alighted on her, observed her beauty, and marked her down. |
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They alighted at the street corner, and dismissing their conveyance, walked to the house. |
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An ousel came suddenly round the elbow of the river and alighted in the edge of the water a few yards away. |
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As he sat there young Jim Hands drove up with his girl, alighted, and went into the ice-cream parlor for refreshment. |
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Then Oliver alighted from his horse, and couching upon the red earth, cried aloud his Mea Culpa. |
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You can find the place where they alighted in the sky, just ahead of Orion. |
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The aforesaid grandeur was yet full upon Mr Dorrit when he alighted at his hotel. |
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Sim and Arden quickly alighted and helped Nate lift the still unconscious Jim out of the rumble seat. |
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At the gate of the carrousel the consuls alighted from their carriages, and were received by the Consular Guard. |
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The floorwalker ushered them into the elevator and they alighted at the second floor. |
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Kalgoorlie, where the Prince next alighted, proved to be a very different place. |
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At length the salesman and the two girls alighted at a Colorado way station, and Everett went on to Cheyenne alone. |
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He alighted, and directed his syce to follow while he walked along the road. |
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By the time his passengers had alighted, however, birken had drawn level with them, about fifty feet away. |
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Thus ran his thoughts as the woman alighted from the gharry and crossed the compound. |
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He stepped, when they alighted from the lift, as gingerly as though he trod on tacks. |
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When we sat down our seat became the magic carpet, and we alighted among the druids in an enchanted wood. |
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It was a hilarious party that alighted from the taxicabs in the station and made its way to the proper part of the trainshed. |
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I was told that it was Maryborough, and shortly after the coach pulled up at the door of an hotel and I alighted. |
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One day I was insulted in the Tuileries, because I had alighted from my horse to walk there without wearing the national ribbon. |
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I alighted at the Petri Gate, crossed the ocker in a boat, and hastened to my grandmothers garden. |
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So he alighted, tied his horse to the tree, and prayed the lady to unarm him. |
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And therewith Sir Launcelot alighted, and tied his horse to the same tree, and prayed the lady to unarm him. |
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So Dot alighted from the pouch, and joined in the conversation, and the native companion was much interested in hearing her story. |
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A few minutes after they came, a mourning dove alighted on a willow at the head of the spring, about twelve rods from our camp. |
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A wood pigeon alighted on a branch close by, and sat preening her radiant plumage in a bath of golden sunlight. |
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It was late in a drizzly afternoon that a traveler alighted at the door of a small country hotel, in the village of N, in Kentucky. |
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Thereupon Sir Launcelot alighted, and tied his horse to the elm. |
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We hastily alighted, and the Inspector and I bade Bainbridge good-bye. |
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At Cavendish Mansions, Barnes alighted and offered the man a sovereign. |
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His bloodshot eyes blinked truculently at his alighted fare. |
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A little further he turned sharply into a by-path and alighted. |
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And as she was trying to comfort him they heard a rustling of wings, and a flight of wrens alighted on the ground beside them. |
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Rohan alighted, and went upstairs with a casket under his arm. |
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It was just noon when he alighted from the train at Chiquita. |
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In a close encounter the soldier alighted and fought on foot. |
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I alighted softly upon the ground, however, without appreciable shock or jar. |
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We alighted at the palace of the doge, and proceeded to the prisons. |
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Arriving there in due course, he alighted and pursued his way on foot. |
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The flivver chugged on to the main entrance, and the girls alighted. |
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Again it alighted, and he brushed it away with the other forepaw. |
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At this moment the canoes approached the Nautilus, and a shower of arrows alighted on her. |
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At Canterbury, therefore, we alighted, only to find that we should have to wait an hour before we could get a train to Newhaven. |
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A short time before they reached the Baths of Caracalla the carriage stopped, Peppino opened the door, and the count and Franz alighted. |
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I alighted upon the soft moss easily and without mishap, and turning saw my enemies lined up along the further wall. |
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When Lionel saw this, he alighted from his horse to smite off his head. |
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A few minutes brought them to the spey, where they alighted in safety. |
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She rode on a San Pablo Avenue surface car to Thirty-fourth Street, where she alighted and started to walk the three blocks to her home. |
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The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment. |
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In the afternoon she drove out, alighted at the jete, paid her visits. |
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When we had again alighted, and were walking in the starlight along the quiet road that led to the Doctor's house, I told Agnes it was her doing. |
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Mr. kain alighted from his car and sauntered over to the group. |
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Al got out of the truck and Ted and tammie alighted beside him. |
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At Limehouse Church the taxi stopped, and Peggy alighted and paid the man. |
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At nine, or thereabouts, we alighted from the train at Paris. |
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As a rule, she took the steam-tram and alighted at the Witte Brug. |
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You may remember that I was distrait, and remained sitting after you had all alighted. |
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The woman had on her head the same embroidered shawl with silk fringes that she wore when she had alighted from the train at Black Hawk. |
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When Emil alighted at the Shabatas' gate, his horse was in a lather. |
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One straggler leaped down pretty briskly from the surface of the Great Bell, and alighted on his feet, but he was dead and gone before he could turn round. |
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I remember that once, on an uninhabited island of the Gallipagos, a bird alighted on my outstretched arm, while its mate chirped from an adjoining tree. |
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Sheeta, catlike, alighted upon four out-sprawled feet, the weight of the ape-man crushing him to earth, the long knife again imbedded in his side. |
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We alighted at one of the entrances to the Square she had mentioned, where I directed the coach to wait, not knowing but that we might have some occasion for it. |
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Doubtful which might be the clarionet-stop, he was considering the point, when a shuttlecock flew out of the parlour window, and alighted on his hat. |
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All the passengers, except a very fat lady on the back seat, had alighted. |
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Almost immediately two other larger birds, who had been watching the duel, flew up and alighted, one at the head and the other at the feet of the dead bird. |
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D'Artagnan, riding fast, thinking as constantly, alighted from his horse in Pairs, fresh and tender in his muscles as the athlete preparing for the gymnasium. |
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A sharp dry wind and a slight frost had so hardened the roads when we alighted at Worcester, that their furrowed tracks were like ridges of granite. |
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They alighted and made their way though the crowded vestibules. |
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It was at this juncture that a big Vauxhall drew up in front of the headquarters of the Second Rhodesians and a moment later General Smuts alighted and entered. |
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Before she could put him into the chair, he sprang out of her arms with a little gleeful cry, and alighted on his seat, like a bird alighting on its perch! |
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At length he reached the fir-tree beneath which she was sitting, and with a crisp crackling sound he alighted beside her, and looked at her lovely face. |
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