"Take flight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with a lantern about eight o'clock in the evening, I pause and say, "Let's see if Downy is at home." A slight tap on the post and we hear Downy jump out of bed, as it were, and his head quickly fills the doorway. We pass hurriedly on and he does not take flight. ...
— The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers • John Burroughs
... ones, begin to leave the island. The dingy youngsters are slower to forsake their Eden of innocence, lingering on beside the unsullied waters and beneath the crystalline skies until the frosts of late September warn them that winter is at hand. Then the last of the colony take flight, winging their way southward leisurely and comfortably, putting in at many a port where fish are cleaned and scraps are thrown overboard, until they arrive at their chosen harbour by some populous and smoke-clouded city, and learn to dodge the steamboats ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
... doubt the desire to allow me perfect freedom in the matter that induces you to take flight whenever I have the honor to meet ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... friends had met in a little room near the old castle; their countenances were sad and irresolute—Du Couedic announced that he had received a note recommending them to take flight. ...
— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... succeed each other in the course round the ball-room! Commencing at first with a kind of timid hesitation, the lady sways about like a bird about to take flight; gliding for some time on one foot only, like a skater, she skims the ice of the polished floor; then, running forward like a sportive child, she suddenly takes wing. Raising her veiling eyelids, with head erect, with ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt
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