ALIGHTING

Traducere în limba română

alighting substantiv

(av.) aterizare; amerizare.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

At my alighting, I was surrounded with a crowd of people, but those who stood nearest seemed to be of better quality.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

“My dear Frankenstein,” exclaimed he, “how glad I am to see you! How fortunate that you should be here at the very moment of my alighting!”

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At the corner an electric car had stopped, and at sight of a lean, familiar figure alighting, his heart leapt with joy.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

On my alighting there he turned the carriage, and dashed away again without so much as a look in my direction.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had stopped, and the master was alighting.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Alighting at the small wayside station, we drove for some miles through the remains of widespread woods, which were once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay—the impenetrable weald, for sixty years the bulwark of Britain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If anyone had been watching her, he would have thought her movements decidedly peculiar, for on alighting, she went off at a great pace till she reached a certain number in a certain busy street.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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