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Definition of Flights
1. flight [v] - See also: flight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flights
Literary usage of Flights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"Soon we saw Alcock, Ross Smith, and Van Ryneveld accomplish flights across the
... Three further flights were made in the same day, the longest lasting 59 ..."
2. Costa Rica by Bruce Conord (2006)
"Cross-Country flights A good way to cover the distances to the corners of Costa
Rica is by ... Most flights last a half-hour or less, depending on stops. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"The confusion arising from an indefinite interpretation of migration in its truest
sense, as distinguished from the shorter " local flights" as appled to ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1875)
"Lark-flights, rather; for they have more loftiness of aim than breadth of scope,
... Eagle-flights, even, we might term them, were they somewhat bolder; ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1895)
"480 705 197 \ 75 64 54 56 HAWK flights IN CONNECTICUT. ... DOUBTLESS many
naturalists and collectors have observed large flights of different species of ..."
6. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"Lark-flights, rather; for they have more loftiness of aim than breadth of scope,
... Eagle-flights, even, we might term them, were they somewhat bolder; ..."
7. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"Returning through the large and lofty hall, they ascended a broad staircase of
shining oak, which, after many flights and many landing-places, brought them ..."
8. Adventure Guide to Belize by Carol O'Donnell, Vivien Lougheed (2003)
"Both international and local flights use the international airport. ... Only local
flights can use the municipal airport in Belize City. ..."
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