"Take flight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... meanwhile, had at last been able to take flight from Boston, and after a long, uncomfortable trip, had arrived at his daughter's home in Lancaster, where he heard that "Daughter Dolly and Hancock had taken dinner ten days before, having driven over from ...
— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... man, slowly, and with some difficulty, "I am about to leave this world. My soul will take flight from this frail body when the sun has sunk behind the horizon. I have lived long and have amassed great wealth which will soon be thine. Use it well, as I have taught thee, for thou, my son, art a man of learning, as befits our noble Jewish faith. One ...
— Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends • Gertrude Landa
... of the night pointed snouts reveal themselves here and there with ears erect and glittering eyes. Antony advances towards them. Scattering the wind in their wild rush, the animals take flight. It ...
— The Temptation of St. Antony - or A Revelation of the Soul • Gustave Flaubert
... ecstasy To the moonlit April night, But my songs are locked in the heart of me, Like birds that may not take flight. ...
— The Miracle and Other Poems • Virna Sheard
... quantity, to hull them one by one, and convey them up to his fifth-story chamber! He is not confined to the woods, but is quite as common in the fields, particularly in the fall, amid the corn and potatoes. When routed by the plow, I have seen the old one take flight with half a dozen young hanging to her teats, and with such reckless speed that some of the young would lose their hold and fly off amid the weeds. Taking refuge in a stump with the rest of her family, the anxious mother would ...
— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs
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