alight upon

May the muse alight upon her brow and may the flood-tide of inspiration swell within her as she sharpens her quill.

As soon as one was killed, others of them would alight upon it and devour it.

One appreciates how bright and gay the plumage of many of our Warblers is, when he sees one of them alight upon the ground.

Or may he not alight upon a tree or the roof of a house, only to be pulled off again and flung headlong?

Why did it gaze on him with such glaring earnestness, projecting its disgusting form, as if presently to alight upon his person?

Vesta searched her mind, thinking she must alight upon some such example there, but none suited the case.