"In flight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... behave; in the breakers he must go slow. But man is born for toil, for navigation. He who rows gets his pay at the end of the month. He who is afraid of blistering his hands takes a dive into the abyss of poverty." He tells a story of Napoleon in flight down the Rhone, of the women who cried out at him, reviling him, bidding him give back their sons, shaking their fists and crying out, "Into the Rhone with him." Once when he was changing horses at an inn, a woman, bleeding a fowl at the door, exclaimed: ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer
... father and pushed rapidly forward when he learned that the Samnites were plundering Campania. Falling in with some scouts of theirs and seeing them quickly retire he got the impression that all the enemy were at that point and believed they were in flight. Accordingly, in his hurry to come to blows with them before his father should arrive, in order that the success might appear to be his own and not his elder's, he went ahead with a careless formation. Thus he encountered a compact ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio
... hundred yards away it left the ground and passed over our heads climbing steadily in a great spiral into the sky. Another aeroplane, and another followed till there were five circling above us, getting smaller and smaller as they soared into the heaven, looking like herons in flight among the clouds. They then made off towards different parts of the German lines to their ...
— On the Fringe of the Great Fight • George G. Nasmith
... doors, the gates. Shall we convey him to the wildest desert? I am prepared, I know a secret way, By which myself and he, still unperceived, The torrents of the Cedron passing over, May go into the desert, where in tears, And seeking safety, like ourselves, in flight, David escaped his rebel son's pursuit. I shall, on his account, fear wild beasts less;— But why do you not favour Jehu's aid? Perhaps good counsel I may offer you; Let us make Jehu guardian of this treasure, We could to-day conduct ...
— Athaliah • J. Donkersley
... forth this sanguine forecast, Napoleon struck the Coalition to the heart. As "the sun of Austerlitz" set, the two Emperors were in flight eastwards, while their armies streamed after them in hopeless rout, or struggled through the funnel of death between the two lakes (2nd December). Marbot's story of thousands of Russians sinking majestically under the ice is a piece of melodrama. But the reality was such as to stun ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
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