Example Sentences

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New ‘Angel’ Alights on Vandalized Brooklyn Tomb The new one is bronze, not marble, like the one that was vandalized in 1959.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2012

Now on swift wheels descending like a star Alights young Eros from his radiant car; On angel-wings attendant Graces move, And hail the God of Sentimental Love.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus