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adjective

Alight adj. Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. "The lamps were alight."

verb

Alight v. i. (past & past part. alighted, sometimes alit; pres. part. alighting)

To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

To come or chance (upon). (R.)

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Etymology of 'Alight'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alight" Quotes from Famous Books

... my cap, and I am ready; he walks on ahead, and I follow behind. Ten minutes waiting at the station, and the train comes in. It consists of three toy carriages, and a few passengers tumble out. In the rear carriage is a lady trying to alight; the engineer hurries to ...

— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun

... Lucinda thinks that is my very worst drawback," she declared; and then chirping to Firefly, she was off at a break-neck pace, hat bobbing, brown braid flying, her eyes alight with the excitement of ...

— Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party • C. E. Jacobs

... advances in literature in America, and have already attained many of the literary vices and diseases of the old countries of Europe. We swarm with reviewers, though we have scarce original works sufficient for them to alight and prey upon, and we closely imitate all the worst tricks of the trade and of the craft in England. Our literature, before long, will be like some of those premature and aspiring whipsters, who become old men before ...

— Washington Irving • Charles Dudley Warner

... Immortality; and the mind of the mourner, being filled with an image, faint yet glorious, of heavenly hills all light and peace—of a spirit resting there in bliss—of a day when his spirit shall also alight there, free and disembodied—of a reunion perfected by love, purified from fear—he takes courage—goes out to encounter the necessities and discharge the duties of life; and, though sadness may never lift her burden from his mind, Hope will enable ...

— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell

... On one occasion a burgher, intentionally or out of fright, lit his fuse while the others were still engaged depositing their charges under the rails. The surprise of the rest on seeing the fuse alight took the form of helter-skeltering away, some rushing against the railway fence, others almost breaking their necks over ant-heaps, while some only got away a few yards before the explosion took place. Fortunately none were injured, and when all was over ...

— In the Shadow of Death • P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald

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