alit

Alit et ditat is the inscription which stands, rightly and properly, on the front of the building.

We alit before a stately hermitage, set amidst the evergreen trees of well-kept grounds.

Nutritur vento, vento restinguitur ignis: / Lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat!

Right so alit a cloud betwixt them in likeness of a fire and a marvellous flame, that both their two shields burnt.

As ill-luck would have it, I alit upon my feet within the vehicle.

A faint scent of chypre from Petticoat's cigarette as he alit.

Then she there alit, and came before the king and saluted him; and he said: Damosel, God thee bless.

And then he alit off his horse, and said: Fair sweet brother, when came ye hither?

The woman saint glanced in our direction; she alit from her car and walked toward us.

It flew circling among the crags, and once I thought it had passed seaward; but it came again, and alit on a boulder.