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I’ll fantasize about setting colonial summerhouses alight using dendrites & neurons.

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Titmice have been spotted dive-bombing cats, alighting on dozing predators’ backs and plucking strands of hair from people’s heads.

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Every few days, he would commute down the highway from his sleepy coastal town of Castelldefels, set Europe’s biggest stadium alight, then drive home to his wife and three sons.

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Fall visitors to South Walton often land another treat, too, as swarms of Monarch butterflies alight in parks and beachside neighborhoods starting in late September.

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As they alight briefly, the eyes acquire the image of a group of letters roughly equal to one word and then immediately jump farther along, pausing to sample another word or two.

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Gates set alight at the peace line between between the Shankill Road and Lanark way interface in North Belfast.

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“With pleasure, my dear fellow,” said the major puffing vigorously for a few moments to get his pipe well alight.

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The sky was alight from zenith to horizon, the Nile aflame with sunrise, by the time the letter was written.

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His eyes alight with hope, he ran out, leaving the door open so that his conversation was again audible to the visitor.

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Miss Jewett was speaking in her brisk, working voice; the troubled face had become alight.

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