Terry Pratchett

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

English Author

Neel Mukherjee

In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.

Indian Writer

Sherwin B. Nuland

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

American Scientist

Charles Perrault

The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.

French Author

Toussaint Louverture

I have taken my flight in the region of eagles; when I alight, it must be on a rock, and that rock must be a constitutional government, of which I shall be the head so long as I shall be among men.

Haitian Leader

Brian Moore

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

Irish Novelist

John Bachman

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.

American Clergyman

Lord Byron

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

British Poet

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

American Novelist

Philip Guedalla

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

English Historian

Used when leaving transportation; focus on the action of descending.

Transportation Action

Involves physical movement; often used when describing someone getting down from a vehicle or mount.

Physical Movement

Creates an image of fire, invokes a sense of danger or destruction.

Flame Visual

Often used in emergency situations or to describe something that shouldn't be on fire.

Emergency Context

Conveys a positive emotion; used metaphorically to describe glowing faces or eyes.

Joyful Imagery

Sets a scene or atmosphere; used to describe surroundings filled with light.

Atmospheric Setting

Indicates a brief period of staying somewhere; often on a journey or trip.

Temporary Stay

Can be used to describe a stop during a trip, but not the final destination.

Stopover

 put our ivory on the market that is what's killing our elephants we're going to burn it we're going to make a statement to the world in this really audacious statement we're 12 tons of ivory worth many millions of dollars was set alight and there was my research it all went up in smoke but it was an extraordinary moment for

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 you camped out underneath the stars and you looked towards the south. You saw the south's celestial pole, the galaxy rising. If I fade in the radio light, this is what we observe with our survey. You can see that the galactic plane is no longer dark with dust. It's alight with synchrotron radiation,

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 peaches on our license plates and an annual peach drop on year's eve even have peaches and our portable toilets so even though you don't produce as much as you can clearly see we still observe the title if I was in charge of the roof for one day I will do most is alight get a

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 The neuroscientists saw multiple areas of the brain light up, simultaneously processing different information in intricate, interrelated, and astonishingly fast sequences. But what is it about making music that sets the brain alight? The research is still fairly new,

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 talking about the butterflies that when they flew away reveal the pool of pig feces that they were that they were had alighted upon and it just made me think of what kinds of unsavory things you may have stumbled upon inadvertently it deep

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 So when you write, use well-chosen words to engage sound, sight, taste, touch, smell, and movement. Then create unexpected connotations among your story elements, and set your readers' brushfire imaginations alight.

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 beetle larvae are producing a perfume a pheromone that is exactly like that emitted by a female bee he alights in order to mate and in seconds is covered by the larvae that swarm all over him at

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 he alights in order to mate and in seconds is covered by the larvae that swarm all over him at first he seems stunned by the shock of his sudden increase in weight but then he's off again

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 What if William Shakespeare had a sister who matched his imagination, his wit, and his way with words? Would she have gone to school and set the stage alight?

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 demystify but to mystify let us make the familiar strange again always and keep that flame alight thank you

Alight

To get down from something, especially a vehicle or animal.

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On fire; burning.

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Glowing with light; illuminated.

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To stop and stay somewhere, especially for a short time.

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Transportation Action

Physical Movement

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