The flight attendant interrupted Fadi’s dark thoughts as she stopped her cart next to them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Was that first flight a thousand years ago? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If I’d known how essential those mittens would be now, I’d never have taken them out of my flight bag—except to wear them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Silver and Buckthorn, with Bigwig helping them, had covered the retreat until, once all were together outside, they had taken to flight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strolled across the yard and down a flight of steps, to a wine- sink called the Lazy Eel, underneath a warehouse full of sheepskins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But like so many other young women, she wasn’t allowed to leave the flight school where she was an instructor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Cora tried to engage him, asking after the place he fled, the business of working cane, how he took flight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Every line tracking the Berg’s flights returned to it eventually. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A typically Dutch, very steep, ankle-twisting flight of stairs also runs from the front part of the house to another door opening onto the street. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

With a twelve-hour flight ahead of me, I have plenty of time to reminisce about the summer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Clear of the last twigs, she trilled a soft tribute to wings and flight, and dove freestyle down the mountain to the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The big, crowded house was in darkness, but he felt his way carefully up three flights of stairs and did not stumble. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A week later, they board a morning flight at Philadelphia International Airport, change planes in Chicago, and land that afternoon in Nebraska. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

At level flight, the peregrine falcon is unremarkable. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once they reached the citadel, they were to restore its defunct pulley system so that their future comings and goings would not be dependent on flight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Could she trust it now, the hilarious freedom of the upward flight, the blind trust in the kindly grip of adult wrists, when the fifth person could so easily have been Robbie? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He displayed his wound, told him of his flight that day, how he had rowed across the river with the object of wandering into the town, and how the river had laughed. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, the target was only about fifteen minutes’ flight time from the airfield. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But my insides seem to have taken over my brain, and in seconds, we’re walking up a short flight of concrete steps to the roof of his house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I drove home with him, wearing the flight jacket, carrying the orchid. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After this, he waited for the opportunity to wipe out the Orsini leaders, having already put to flight those of the Colonna family. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor remained on the floor for the time being, especially as he was afraid that his father could take a flight up onto the wall or the ceiling as an act of real malice. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the man who handed them their tickets told them they’d better rush so that they didn’t miss their flight. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The veins of her flight feathers were split and dry. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Fight, then flight, she silently instructed, bracing herself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One of the flight attendants enters the cockpit to find out how serious the situation is. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I got a nice letter from Charles Lindbergh, who thought that my flight around the moon by myself must have been similar to his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same chaos and flight took hold of the northern section of the city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those twenty seconds were the most experience we had, until Mercury began with Alan Shepard’s fifteen-minute flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to hop up the first flight of stairs on his left leg and the second on his right. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The flight was terrible and I’m exhausted. I need to get some rest.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When he opened the door that morning Mackenzie had seen a flight of mallards going down in the direction of the small lake fed by the creek running through the farm. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to take me from the international terminal to the domestic terminal so I could catch my flight to Syracuse. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her apartment was a flight up from a bodega with a dingy yellow awning: the Joyful Food Mart. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As they stood side by side a crane rose slowly from the beach, with a graceful lift of its great wings, and they followed its flight, a leisurely line of white against the dark trees. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she would get back in her cab and wait at the airport until she found a flight to take her home. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Upon arrival at the Gardens of Glenwood, the two men carry everything up the flight of stairs to Dell's apartment without even breaking a sweat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

ATK built rockets under a contract from NASA, which in 1999 awarded Keith the Silver Snoopy Award, a prestigious honor reserved for people who show great dedication in bringing safety to flight missions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had the impression that he wouldn’t have minded if it happened every flight. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Edward’s plane was landing in terminal four, the largest terminal, where most flights landed — so it wasn’t surprising that his was. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They made over nine thousand solo flights in their fast and dangerous Yak fighters—about half of those were combat missions, and 125 were air battles. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Beneath the flight jacket he could detect the slim outline of his father’s silver flask. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them but Alec up the short flight of stairs and onto the landing, grouping together in front of the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A machine gun leaned against a desk, its owner frozen in flight. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It would be a stretch to say that I enjoyed coaxing mattresses up five flights of stairs, but it was nice to work as part of a team. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The flight attendant gave them their trays and turned to his parents. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

From it rose a flight of stairs, taking their time in their rising, taking all the space they needed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The present—the passing second of time—was all I had in which to control and restrain him: a movement of repulsion, flight, fear would have sealed my doom,—and his. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She would next get on a flight to Atlanta and meet my dad at the airport so they could fly to Baton Rouge together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Something within their territory has frightened them—the intrusion of an enemy, the assault of a dominant animal, a startling noise—and set off a flight reaction. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tested in a flight simulator, easily conquering it. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grace, Josiah, and Bien led the way to the first house, up a lighted walkway and a flight of brick steps. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I imagined our escape, a midnight flight to the safety of the Princess. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I regret to inform you that this entire flight has been selected for gleaning.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She went on an aerial flight over Mount St. Helens once with her uncle, a big-shot photographer for National Geographic. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scheduled flights were delayed by hours, security took an unprecedented length of time, the flight itself was terrifying, but on Saturday morning when Aimee woke up, her mother was standing in her bedroom doorway. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, on the day before our scheduled flight to Rio, I sat down in my cabin at the ranch, opened a notebook, and wrote my parents a short letter. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Theory in the classroom included the principles of flight, aircraft and weapons mechanical instruction, and navigation skills. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Flight upon steep flight of stone and flickering gaslight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even if everything miraculously snapped back to place, there’d be long delays, the same as when it snowed and flights got backed up. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that we climb a few flights of stairs, I still feel like I am plunging into the earth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Steffens, borne upon the shoulders of four white rabbits, was carried down a flight of stairs which magically appeared in the floor. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down two flights our neighbor on the second floor has her apartment door open and the smell of eggs and bacon frying in the skillet on the stove makes my stomach growl. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He followed her out of the room, around the corner, and up a flight of stairs to a landing with a statue of a naked woman, some Greek goddess, in the corner. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As is the custom with crows, Bongo chose her name after her first flight. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To avoid demoralizing troops, flights carrying the containers to America took place at night. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Specters seemed to be earthbound, without the power of flight, luckily for the witches. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is extraordinary, thought Miss Honey, how often small children have flights of fancy like this. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

A wall, a flight of stairs, a road ahead. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Our tools for diminishing flight distance are the knowledge we have of an animal, the food and shelter we provide, the protection we afford. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t even get out of the rental car; they had to hurry back to the airport to catch their flight to Boston, where I lived for the few unfrozen months out of the year. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A flight attendant walked through the aisle with a beverage cart, half whispering, “Drinks? Drinks? Drinks? Drinks?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He extinguishes the last of the lights before ascending several flights to check on Chandresh. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Yet since that far cry they had seen and heard no sign that the enemy had marked their flight or followed them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His plan wasn’t fully fleshed out on what he’d do when he got to London, but he was sure he’d find a flight going to Peshawar from there. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then, putting his hand into the pocket of his flight jacket, he pulled out a .22 pistol from it and laid the gun gingerly beside the cigar box. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of each flight, I jumped off the bottom step and clicked my heels to make her laugh, and she laughed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We walk down a flight of narrow stairs where the echo of our footsteps layers over itself, dissonant and hollow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Opposite the doors, a flight of stairs that seemed to be built of blocks of ice curved up out of sight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sherman limped outside, scribbling notes on the flight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a slow walk down the twelve flights of stairs, since they had to stop at almost every floor so Bri could catch her breath. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The problem is how to move us to an undisclosed location where we can take a flight to freedom. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Let your flight be joyful,” she said, “and mine too.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

That didn’t stop Langley engineers from imagining how the missile bodies and rocket engines and reentry problems involved in high-speed flight research might also apply to space vehicles. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Two days before the flight, I awoke in a cold sweat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“That just means you can walk up six flights of stairs without risking a heart attack. Where’d you pick that up?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Today however, the passengers of BigSky Air flight 922 were on their way to a different destination than the one on which they had planned. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt thought of those people trapped on the upper floors, and of the firefighters who’d have to climb ninety flights to reach them. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

And at the end of the day the sergeant had instructed him to join the flight—just for the experience. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“What about a connecting flight? We must get her to Washington this afternoon!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was the first time anyone had successfully crossed the North Pole in flight—a triumph of international importance for Soviet aircraft designers and pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She lived one flight up and I walked her to her door. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he is finished, instead of returning to the dining room, he walks up a flight of stairs, to check out the renovations. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We walk down one of the tiled corridors, nearly empty now at the end of a workday, and down a flight of stairs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and three flights were delayed at Newark Airport. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On the flight to Detroit, I am alone. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The throne room was reached by climbing one last wide flight of stairs that culminated in grand redwood doors. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A few shot at her, but the arrows fell wideband then Lyra, looking up at the sky, saw the greater part of the witch flight peel off and turn back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We walked for miles, slowly, guns up and ready to throw shot at a drumming flight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how hard the job assigned to her, she could always pause for a moment in her work and watch the slow drift of the clouds overhead, study the swift flight of the birds. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yelena is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 41/42. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hydraulic flight controls, like power steering in a car, prefer a light touch, and women should do as good a job as men. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Po-2 pilots flew using visual flight references only—they couldn’t navigate or even fly level if they couldn’t see the horizon. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All the video games and flight simulators were dark. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

As he slices away with the carving knife my father indicates to all of us, but especially to Mr. Banerji, the areas where the flight muscles attach, using the carving fork as a pointer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, when Luke was still in flight from his wife, when I was still imaginary for him. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time the gates, the great Scaean gates of Troy, had been flung wide, for the Trojans at last were in full flight and were crowding into the town. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adulation seems to have an intoxicating effect on the usually grounded Wayne, sending him on an uncharacteristic flight of rhetorical fancy. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He does not answer, or he mumbles words you can’t understand, so you try to ignore it, but the flight seems to go on forever. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaped up and saw the Trojans in flight and Hector lying gasping on the plain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pilots sat in the cockpit and worked their way through the written checklists that flight crews follow on every significant point of procedure, those checklists were in English. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She took a plane, just rode the bus to Denver International, found a flight that wasn't too full, and walked on. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a lifetime caged away from flight and truth, comes freedom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side of her, a torch-juggler has amassed a large crowd, and on the other, a Tribal Kehanni spins her tales, her voice rising and swooping like a bird in flight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, clearly lined and barred, and I picked it up, felt that it was an omen of grace and flight and tied it to the mast down inside the boat. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She had been bom on Dragonstone nine moons after their flight, while a raging summer storm threatened to rip the island fastness apart. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His face was unlined and innocent to the point of being virtuous, a Botticelli in a flight jacket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sulking on a transatlantic flight back home wasn’t going to help me any. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was a full flight, but with the lavishly appointed seats of modern air travel, it didn’t feel crowded at all. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I wonder why they chose the noon flight. That will get you into Washington around two. The competition starts at seven. That’s cutting it a little close.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Now that I had in my possession these keys, I might slip from the house with my mother, when she was well, and together we might run for— My fancy convolved places of flight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He almost missed his flight because, as the other passengers walked shakily to the plane, he stood aside, vomiting. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But then, unless the fascination is too powerful, there comes the point when keeping still is discarded and the rabbit, as though breaking a spell, turns in an instant to its other resource—flight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a half hour’s flight, she landed on a palo santo tree at the top of a dead volcano. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The flight engineer called some figures to the pilot, who confirmed them, and Lord Roke sank back into the shadows, holding tight to the struts and beams as the airship plunged and tilted. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He leaped from the car while it was still skidding dangerously and hurtled up the flight of steps inside, where three men were busy at the instruments and the controls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Verne wrote a fascinating make-believe story about a trip to the moon, and many of his ideas came close to the way the Apollo flights actually took place. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian stepped down from the flight deck and seated himself on the floor, hanging his head with guilt and remorse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My actual release time was set for 3 P.M., but Winnie and Walter and the other passengers from the chartered flight from Johannes-burg did not arrive until after two. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pulling on his flight gloves, he noticed he was still wearing his wedding ring. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Wind puffs rattled the cottonwoods, dust swirled in the road stirring grasshoppers up into their crackling, chili-red flights. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Derrick ran down fourteen flights of stairs to try to save his brother—he thought he could catch him before he hit the ground. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first raven took flight as their grapnels were arcing above the curtain wall, the second a few moments later. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I waited, and when he came back, he was wearing—I’m not lying—a flight jacket! Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But was this flight or was it onslaught? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their flight is at dawn and so they must leave in darkness, driving through streets so empty they are unrecognizable, a tram with its small single headlight the only other thing that moves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the horns died away, a hissing filled the air; a vast flight of arrows arched up from his right, where the archers stood flanking the road. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was allowed to fly airplanes again, and I hoped to be assigned to a flight crew, but my first job was to help with the flight of Borman-Lovell-Anders to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their rockets had reached speeds of Mach 15 in flight, and they were confident of their abilities to lift a payload—a satellite and a human passenger—into orbit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“He told me out of trust. I would never betray it. I believe that the world could be different. I believe that our destinies aren’t chains around our necks, but wings that give us flight.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hadn't paid much attention to it before, but now I see it's a small bird in flight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I went through Dan’s apartment—upstairs, I mean. Out onto his fire escape and down a flight into your bedroom. That’s how I left you that note under your pillow the first night.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But four hours ago, they were fugitives, creeping in bushes, hearts apound, danger surrounding; and now, they sit giddy with escape, surrounded only by companions, drunken on the airiness of flight, recounting mishaps. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Harry felt his hair fly back off his forehead; his nerves left him in the thrill of the flight; he glanced around, saw Malfoy on his tail, and sped off in search of the Snitch. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A flight of angels, armed with spears and swords, had emerged from the Clouded Mountain to meet the witches head-on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tally dropped the book and dashed for the stairs, leaping a flight at a time until she reached the back exit of the dorm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the first line was within bowshot of the enemy,- flights of arrows flew between the ships, hissing like striking snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She wasn't even born when Valentina Tereshkova made her historic flight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

And they didn’t drift; they moved with the purposeful flight of geese or swans. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “Let’s just go. Mom! We’re going to miss the flight.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She took flight with amazing speed, and Chiron’s arrow whizzed harmlessly past her head. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Because Lyra was feeling rebellious and uneasy, she didn’t answer this patronizing question with the truth, or with one of her usual flights of fancy. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She gave up and allowed the press of bodies around her to propel her to the enclosed staircase and up the four flights to the weaving room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been studying airport maps, flight times, directions to get to Uncle Ermenio’s house from the airport, and San Juan’s city layout. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

At any other time, he would have put them to instant flight; now he had more pressing business and chose to ignore them. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there were footsteps on the long flight of stairs, or a door closed suddenly, they jumped up, trembling, nostrils distended, eyes wide open. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once they beat their wings and surged forward, and she darted with them, surfing on the turbulence their pinions caused in the air and relishing the speed and power it added to her flight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the Piper had flown perpendicularly across the flight path of a jet plane that had just passed through the area. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

With her children in tow, she hurried home to organize their flight. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got the feeling from listening to them talk on the radio for a week that they would always appreciate the earth more because of their flight so far away from it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there, shaking his fist as the plane rattled the buildings in its powerful flight. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook it, trying to clear it, and the moths on his brow and cheeks took flight and fluttered around his head in a corona. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I believe that a lot of people, especially young people, would volunteer tomorrow for such a flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Crew read newspapers throughout the flight,” the audit stated, “often with newspapers held up in such a way that if a warning light came on, it would not be noticed.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She knew all those flights of stairs were brutal on his bad leg, but he seemed to like having the whole floor to himself. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Houses, churches, fields of grain, nothing was spared by the Firedrake in its ruinous flight. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took off with ponderous flight and circled and lowered, circled and lowered until the others danced in joy and hunger at his approach. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“They are waiting for seats on a flight to Lagos,” Obinze said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

To distract himself from thinking about the agony of walking up twelve flights of stairs, he concentrated on what might have happened to his sister. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had never seen a ruff in flight before; nor was the moment long enough for him to make a careful identification. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Now and again she thought of a country road at sun-up and considered flight. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sumac had taken off in flight earlier and hadn’t yet returned. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Galina noticed that they flew over three airfields they could have landed at before the flight ended in disaster. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It had already been announced he'd be backup flight controller for Ares 4, and he had a good shot at the top job for Ares 5. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were exhausted from the long flight from Pakistan, but that wasn’t all. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After the first Friday, a bone-weary Ernest Lawrence boarded a red-eye flight west for a few days at Balboa and was back in the air two days later for another grueling week. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Alma boarded the second flight of her life and within two hours she was back in Arkansas, standing near baggage claim and waiting to see her mother appear on the escalator. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A flock of miniature origami birds taking flight, the largest the size of an open palm, the smallest the size of a fingernail, all faintly striped with notepaper lines. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was sure he’d said his flight left before lunchtime, which meant this was the only other possible flight. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She walks up the eight flights of stairs and picks me up at my door. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And from there, Sasha was able to get a flight back to her own base. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I raced up the four flights to Marcus’s classroom, the dentist’s scrawled note in one hand, and burst in, yelling, “I need Marcus!” and waving the piece of paper in Mr. Anderson’s face. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

When World War II started in 1939, looking ahead, Jackie had asked Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife, for help to create a program to train American women pilots for ferry flights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The flight over the Pacific was easy and uneventful. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie doesn’t say anything, but I know he’s scared by the way he keeps looking around the corners of the other rooms as we reach the top of each flight. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She points to the steep flight of stairs leading from our sixth floor to the fifth floor below. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was his first flight, and he wobbled unsteadily as he rose higher and veered to the left. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Rue poised on her toes, arms slightly extended, like a bird about to take flight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His mother’s room was two flights up, a converted attic space. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He looked about him carefully, on the landing and up the first flight of stairs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Thiazi in eagle form could not stop himself, could not slow his flight, could not change direction. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“You fell down two flights of stairs and through a window.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You got beaten up and thrown down a flight of stairs. Want to explain what you were doing?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was a quick flight to Detroit, where the little electric car met us as we disembarked and drove us to the gate for Amsterdam. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Because I was on the flight with you,” she said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That last ferry flight would have been an “S” chit, so that means I’ll have to make a report. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She felt hope rustling its wings inside her, ready to take flight at the right words from Kaz. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The costs of frequent flights into space were judged to be too high to continue with government-sponsored shuttles. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a magical time, full of dreaminess and charm, a time to watch the mariposas emerge out of their cocoons, gather their courage, and take flight while we floated faceup in the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Throughout the next day the company went with greatest caution, for flights of gwythaints, Arawn’s fearsome messenger birds, were now seen against the clouds. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I never planned to be a flight attendant forever. This is a new phase in my life.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Across the pond Seth yelled, and a small flock of cockatoos took flight. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with greed. It’s all that lousy Dr. Stubbs’ fault, getting Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn stirred up against flight surgeons. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I think it was something about us being in the dark looking out on the world, moving through the universe without being seen, our private wheels, our private space flight. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he was able to fly again, he’d sometimes catch a flight to Haiti just for the weekend, returning to Boston only to meet medical school obligations, leaving almost no time to be with Ophelia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Garner had sown the seeds of Caesar’s flight in many ways, but one instruction in particular brought him to the attention of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Clumps and clusters of birds in flight were questing back and forth, black dots against the blue sky, moving in some kind of desperate Brownian motion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

From here two flights of steps led: one going on, as it seemed, up on to the high bank of the stream; the other turning away to the left. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Orbital flights—which sent the astronaut on one or more ninety-minute circuits around the globe, passing out of visual and radio contact with Mission Control, flying over unfriendly territory—upped the ante by a factor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The flight to Addis Ababa would originate in Dar es Salaam. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled her toward the door and hustled her down all three flights of stairs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They found a broad path, paved with hewn stones, now winding upward, now climbing in short flights of well-laid steps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was then that I heard footfalls on the stairs—not the outside steps I had used, but a steep, narrow flight rising from behind the stage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight—toward my heart. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The earth should have looked , and no- body discovered the mistake until after the flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since her flight to meet her husband in Cambridge, in the winter of 1967, she will make the journey entirely on her own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he was so tired after the long bus ride from Pittsburgh, coming right after the luxury of the flight, he was afraid he wouldn’t be convincing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body of a flight attendant lay in the bushes about ten feet away, her arms reaching forward as if she had tried to escape by crawling into the jungle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was a .12-gauge Savage shotgun, Model 300; a delicately etched scene of pheasants in flight ornamented the handle. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, a female Soviet cosmonaut with far less flight experience took the honors of being the first woman in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the flight attendants wandered the aisles collecting all the tiny plastic bottles of alcohol, the women on the flight started pulling headscarves out of their carry-ons and covering their hair. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Until we reach a room at the back of the house that we have to go up a small flight of stairs to enter. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Foxes, stoats, weasels—any of these might be encountered, and the only recourse would be flight above ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not high in the sky world, as I had when I’d joined Sumac in flight, but closer to the earth and to my body. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As we walked across the dirt landing strip to await a second flight into Kathmandu, Stuart, Caroline, and I were approached by three ashen-faced Japanese men. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I awoke several times to gasps and flights of movements and murmurs that it had happened again, he’d stopped breathing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We had made the best of our flight. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

As we travel up the next flight, they debate who should ride with whom. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I gaze around the airport at the high ceilings and the wide windows, excitement coursing through my veins as we walk to gate 17 for our flight to Rome. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When everything else has been stripped away, the only options remaining are fight or flight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I told you the flight last night would get in the way of school.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Halfway down in its flight, the stone made a splash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, everything up to this point was preamble—the flight from the citadel, the squeezing down chimneys and perching on brows. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So by the time I get to the bottom of the first flight of stairs, I know who it is. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was much lighter up there, because a white-painted flight of steps led up to the roof—or, rather, to a wood-and-glass structure like a little greenhouse. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her future was a beautiful butterfly unfolding its delicate wings for first flight. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Cassius Dio said, “True to her nature as a woman and an Egyptian, she turned to flight.” Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Constant contact with the astronaut during every minute of every orbit was a prerequisite for the flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This time, instead of being arrested for disobedience, she was told she could be on active flight duty once again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And now, as well as leading the flight formation and dealing with the pain in her wounded leg, she was switching off the Pe-2’s burning engine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was struck by the ease and swiftness of its flight. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, the flight attendant came by again and asked if we needed anything else. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day began with a complete medical and aviation history, followed by a comprehensive check-up by an internist or flight surgeon. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He took her by the arm and led her away from the wheelhouse, and Sanaa's spirits took flight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If you had, by some miracle, gotten onto a flight to Peshawar, you would most assuredly have been arrested by immigration officers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Powell said I looked great in my flight jacket. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just about every flying club in the kingdom joined in, and so many thousands of people applied—free flight training!—that they could only take about a tenth of them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on. earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aleksandr suggested that he run a training program for them along with their flight duties that fall. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A tiny bird in her belly, unfolding wings, and taking flight. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I thought a lot about the Russian system, which only considers people to be cosmonauts after they have made a space flight, not before. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he didn’t mind that the flight had been delayed in London and that this stop at Kano to change planes before going on to Lagos would delay him even longer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So by the time I checked in for my flight, I was very hungry. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

In days long past they were built by the Men of Gondor in their pride and power, after the overthrow of Sauron and his flight, lest he should seek to return to his old realm. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I lift it carefully into the air to admire the exquisite balance, the elegant design, and the curve of the limbs that somehow suggests the wings of a bird extended in flight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“The dragon has three heads,” Dany said when they were on the final flight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Stars, to him, were fixed mariners, old friends, fine compasses, light pure, and druids in the silvery separateness of the night flight. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each side continually explores the limits of the other’s tolerance, as in flights of nuclear bombers over the Arctic wastes; the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars—a few entries from a long and dolorous list. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Shimmy's getting violent," reported the ascent flight director. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chicken or pasta?” the flight attendant, her face bright with makeup and false lashes, asks me. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

We followed him up a flight of stairs, and then Johnny Cakes paused outside a door. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Avianca accident so perfectly illustrates the characteristics of the “modern” plane crash that it is studied in flight schools. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They put them on and just before they took flight Daedalus warned Icarus to keep a middle course over the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s flight was due to arrive in about five minutes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Outside, mockingbirds were singing blithely, and, once in a while, when the songsters took flight, Mariam could see their wings catching the phosphorescent blue of moonlight beaming through the clouds. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I turn again to the page where the orange-and-black monarch sits atop the page like he could take flight any moment. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a longer flight than would ordinarily lead to a basement—more than twenty steep stairs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“St. Martin’s? That’s still standing. It’s in Victory Square, alongside the picture gallery. A building with a kind of a triangular porch and pillars in front, and a big flight of steps.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It’s the way I felt on the two flights it took to get here. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They flew so fast that their flight sounded like the roar of a hurricane. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Thanks to severe thunderstorms, I spent the whole flight gripping my seat, worrying that I was going to plummet to my death. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Distantly connected to royalty, she was of some rank herself, of privilege rather than experience, a flight officer; but she was said to work as diligently at her wireless set as any self-made shop girl. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A chunk of stone hurtled past him on its flight to earth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The young chemist sprinted up three flights to Lawrence’s office in LeConte Hall to find him in a state of agitation over Urey’s needling. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She went into the second house and ran up the three flights of stairs, calling “Mama!” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harris, who was thirty-one, said there was supposed to be another client arriving on the same flight from Bangkok, a fifty- three-year-old attorney from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, named Lou Kasischke. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had been sitting next to Judy on the flight from Massachusetts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was standing in plain sight now, my head and shoulders well over the top of the short flight of stairs, but I didn’t care. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The tricky bit will be to coordinate your flight pattern with the video feed....” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A Young Man dashed down two flights, a musket clamped in each hand. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It was a fine flight,” he concluded lamely. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would happen if blacks responded to the pestilence in the same way as whites, with panic and flight? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There were propellers and a motor in the frame, and they sent the bag lumbering through the air, so he could guide his own flight. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flight attendant handed Shadow a glass of beer. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A few months later, I boarded a flight to Paris with my teacher and a dozen or so of my classmates from Whitney Young. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We put down briefly in Khartoum, where we changed to an Ethiopian Airways flight to Addis. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took off as the dog sprang, but his awkward clumsy flight, the long legs trailing, was not fast enough. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets, say they, are full of bustle and flight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Kaira had accidentally left Pillow behind in New Haven, and Aileen, the tour’s travel coordinator, took a flight back to Connecticut and personally searched the hotel laundry until she found it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours into the flight the pilot came on the public address system to announce that we were passing over Liberal, Kansas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“They seem fairly obvious, too. Between Great Hall and Cavern Hole there is a flight of stairs. Come on, old mouse.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He squeezes me back before we go up the last flight of steps. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On September 23, a state commission canceled the flight of the Rodina. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Major Reynolds, the exec, was giving last-minute instructions to Lieutenant Snell, the youngest man in 367, and fresh from flight school. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the enemy were already in flight, Thistle could be sent back with a message to Groundsel and Vervain to bring everyone up immediately. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A diminutive captain cutting an unstalwart figure in his flight suit, walked to the colonel’s desk and saluted. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We see a flight of stairs in the building’s hall. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stomped up a flight of stairs, muttering to himself. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We were directed down a long corridor that led to a flight of stairs that took us deeper inside the prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A well-executed suborbital flight would buy the United States a little breathing room; but orbital flight—the end game of Project Mercury— was infinitely more complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They cried out as best they could, “De lake is cornin’!” and barred doors flew open and others joined them in flight crying the same as they went. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But in flight they were angelic: they cut through the air with such speed and grace that they were called “blue meteors.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They came to a long flight of stairs. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They love each other,” he says, and keeps walking up another flight of stairs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Her precious hoard of rice was food for flight. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They fielded her inquiries with gusto: they could, and did, spend most of their lives talking and thinking about flight and would never run out of patience for the topic. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then I tore out of my bedroom, dashed down two flights of steps, and found both of my parents on the couch in the living room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The scene resembled the ticket counters that served flights to Haiti, or to any other poor country in the world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

After a week of testing, flight surgeon Robert Secrest told Jerrie that not only had she passed, but she had scored in the top 2 percent of all astronaut test candidates. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps even more marvelous, however, was the prospect that the Jupiter bird may have had the power of flight, making it by far the largest creature ever to soar in the skies.’” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Of course, this long flight would be undertaken only if no harm came to the astronauts on the earlier Gemini flights, which were scheduled to stay up for four days, and then eight days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know my flight number or location. I don’t know anything. I told you that, over.” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in addition to classes, in weather that grew colder and stormier every day, the pilots were given flight tests to decide which aircraft they’d be best suited for. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I thought about Ella the whole flight back to New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know how good a flight jacket feels on a cold day like this? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was only when our flight back was supposed to land that I realized Abby really wasn’t coming home. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Her whole life had been one long flight, it seemed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Skelton appeared on the cover of Look magazine in a silver astronaut’s flight suit in 1960, it was the first time that people began talking publicly about women astronauts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

There could be only so many flights from San Francisco to Logan Airport, right? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After the Soviet Union broke up, more details about Valentina's flight were brought to light. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the single word, and for some reason, I don’t know why...I get a weird feeling in my belly, like a hundred butterflies have taken flight. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The young flight instructor was dozing in the sun after a swim in the river when she heard a radio announcement coming from a nearby stadium. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And flight time was the time he had to spend in airplane flight each month in order to get his flight pay. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

From below a spear came flying, followed by a flight of crossbow bolts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After removing her suit, Lewis made her way to the flight cabin. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what’s more, I’m shutting down all nonessential flights until the present crisis is past.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

As he made his way around and around and down the two flights of curling, corkscrewing steps, his shoes were honking out a song: “The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the same time, Yeoville had started to suffer from white flight, neglect, general decline. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On weekends they wander naked from room to room, up and down the five flights of stairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already he had seen the deer eyes that fixed on him through the rain, fixed on him as she backed away, fixed on him as her body began to turn for flight. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came from the bottom of that river where the blood never stops flowing, where my mother’s dive toward life—her swim among all those bodies slaughtered in flight—gave her those wings of flames. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When it’s flight, you’re swept away by a force—but when it’s fight, you’re giving in to an even stronger one. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Returning to his seat afterward, Farmer said this happened to him about once in every eighteen flights. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

If she wanted to escape, she simply had to turn left at the next hallway and take the stairs down three flights. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But there was something about the man, prepared for flight, that made Longstreet grin. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legion of fairies glided toward them, scooped them up, and carried them on a breakneck flight for home. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A few hours before my flight from London, I wrote to my mother—as I always did, as I always will do—to ask if she would see me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She used it to tap the ground like the blind lady in town, the way Caesar had probed the black water during their flight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Our flight’s in three hours,” Mom said as I stood and stretched, bending over Laleh’s seat to try and extend my back. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Its movements were so light, so alert, that Pax knew it was a whisker away from flight. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We walk across the shaded verandah until the roof runs out and we’re standing at the top of a big flight of marble stairs in the glaring sun. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in the moonlight she could imagine people scrambling over flaming cars to escape the crumbling city, panicking in their flight from this untenable pile of metal and stone. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When he tried to speak it came out in a scream, and his first flight ended when he crashed into a wall and ended back inside his own broken body. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We stayed that way and as the bus rumbled down the road it felt like the whole planet was loose and was bouncing down a long flight of steps. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dread it, but I follow her into the elevator and we go down one flight, to the fifth floor. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It was fifteen thousand for a first-class ticket, but I’m sufficiently capitalized to indulge such whims. And the drinks are free on the flight. If you’re ambitious, you can almost break even.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"To warn you, so you could stay away from them! I never meant to flight them! Gods, Cat, do you know what you've done?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I thought a lot about American optimism when, on a flight from Chicago to San Francisco, I watched one of those video magazines stitched together from a week's worth of soft network news reports. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Down two flights of stairs she flew before grabbing Franz’s leash off the door handle and disappearing into her apartment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Just this flight to get through, for now.. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running down a flight of stairs and then out into the alley, she shouldered the pack and pushed her way through a group of people lined up for a magic show. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now that white flight had begun, the Point System was more important than ever. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The flight engineer knows this, because it is his responsibility to track the weather, so now he decides to speak up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My mom doesn’t say anything, because she’s busy preparing for the flight. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Six months after the first Explorer satellite, the US Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere and for other purposes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to his health, he worried about the Pacific Ocean and flight time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He would only go to the capital to catch a flight out. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She talked about flight and instincts and power. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I think my second flight will be very different from my first. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pilots broke toward the flight line and the open hangars dominated by the sleek, predatory presence of the F-8’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 1920s and 1930s are often called “the golden age of flight.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She was absolutely intrigued by them at this time in her life and remembered every pattern of the flight of each species. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Down the dark, quiet hall—the girls must have been asleep, too—and down a flight of creaky stairs, Reynie made his way back to Mr. Benedict’s study. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dutchy completes his technical training and aircraft carrier flight deck training, and after he’s been in San Diego for a month, he learns that soon he’ll be shipping out. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a long flight of white steps, leading to the rank of doors. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, a layer of virtual reality lies over my view, so that the flight attendants’ names hover over their heads. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bigwig, crouched close to Blackberry in the straw of the cattle shed, leaped to flight at the sound of the shot two hundred yards up the lane. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Project Mercury’s first orbital flight was originally slated to take place at the end of 1960, on President Eisenhower’s watch. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly, Lyddie climbed the flight of stairs to the weaving room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The school’s office was located at the top of the first flight. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped on Espanola for a week, eating well and putting on fat for the long flight ahead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I caught the first flight down after the news broke. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a blue-bottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Qhorin's mouth tightened as he followed its flight with his eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Engineers used it to take a “dummy” astronaut, weighing as much as a real astronaut, for a four-orbit flight in November 1961. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

An old Chinese birdcage, broken down into a web of arched wires, had become an eagle, its brassy skeletal wings spread as if about to take flight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Not quite yet. I haven’t made a final decision, but I do need to give them an answer soon. I booked a flight to check things out.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In June, she was promoted and became a flight commander. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For the next four days it snowed, nixing any chance for a flight. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went under the broken bit of archway and towards a flight of steps. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A flight of hopeful pigeons settled on the pavement around our feet. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As they lay in their camp that day Aragorn watched the flights doubtfully, wondering if Gollum had been doing some mischief and the news of their voyage was now moving in the wilderness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had witnessed test flights in Thanagost, and the sight of the sleighs scudding across the skies under full sail had been magical. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We use her phone to check the local flights to Hawaii, and when we’re sure there’s no way Michael’s family can get him on a plane, Rhiannon drives me home. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The flight attendant came back and took away Shadow’s beer, half-finished. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The daily Pan Am flight is departing for the States. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In flight, he is nature’s ultimate wedding of form and purpose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has been brought to my attention,” he said, “that we have a celebrity on our flight today.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There it was: Lily's flight time and flight number. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t any of us catch a flight to Anywherebuthere right now? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the future, she would say that the reason she had not flown on that 10:00 p.m. flight was “fate,” because it was “not her time to go.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He glanced upwards and sure enough the flight above was already grinding to a halt. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sixteenth birthday was eight days away, and throughout the flight back home I still felt as if I was dreaming, a dream that I didn’t want to wake up from. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The crew chief, Red, a hulking redheaded guy from Tennessee, maintained the helicopter and served as the door gunner during flights. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After our trip to Paris, I plunged into preparations for my own Apollo flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashed across the sky as their carriage came to a halt before the great oak front doors, which stood at the top of a flight of stone steps. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You’ve finished your missions and you don’t need the flight pay. Why don’t you ask for Chief White Halfoat’s job, if you can stand working for Captain Black?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even in the Langley Technical Library, which was arguably the worlds best collection of information on powered flight, engineers were hard-pressed to find books on spaceflight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

All of the worries of the day rise from him, and left behind is the hope for those babies in flight. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Oliver Wood took off for a warm-up flight around the goalposts; Madam Hooch released the balls. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

So once again she turned her back upon the distant hill and closed her ears to the song of flight and freedom that the wind sang as it played amongst the hill’s stony ridges. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mother said they had already booked their flights and would be staying in my dorm room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Abruptly the room took off on a rocket flight into the clouds, it plunged into a lime-green sea where blue fish ate red and yellow fish. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow him to a flight of stairs that lead to the roof. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Alex could barely keep up with her, but adrenalin pumped him up and he walked down the single flight of stairs almost as fast as his little sister. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

On flights back to Da Nang, they brought out the injured. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

First, if I had stayed, it would have taken a couple of years to get another flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let you think of beetles or honey, sweet baron, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest” “Nonsense,” exclaimed the Wart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On another day, Phil’s crew spent part of a rainy morning sitting in a briefing room with another crew as they awaited flights. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hear occasional crashes from the tree line, but each time it’s a lizard plopping into the water or a bird taking flight. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But under the stress of fear and flight, Bigger Thomas did not think of Bessie. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

More importantly, breaching that physical barrier opened researchers’ minds to the wider spectrum of powered flight’s possibilities, and its challenges. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And a toothbrush and her last flight’s two-ounce bar of chocolate. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The trail of seashells arcs past the toilet and down a flight to the closed fifth-floor door she knows by now is his. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She remembered that as a child she dreamt of being a flight attendant. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Powers had to eject while in flight, his instructions were first to flip a switch marked ARM and a second switch marked DESTRUCT. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My room was directly opposite it, up three flights of stairs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren left his name off the flight schedule for the next mission and reported the matter to Group Headquarters. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The deer was some way ahead, poised for flight. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

After 19 years of promised and canceled flights, the Soviet Union had just launched the second woman into space from the Soviet space center in Baikonur. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

In December, two months after John’s medevac flight to Boston, I am back with Farmer in Haiti, as our truck’s headlights bounce over the endless, back-jarring potholes of Highway 3. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Well away from the flight plan the pilot had filed. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

So as Bull pulled up to the parking lot of the Officers’ Club, he saw groups of pilots arriving wearing their flight jackets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This led him on to mechanics, where he did important work on momentum and studied the nature of centrifugal force, demonstrating its similarity to gravity, and improved on Galileo’s treatment of the flight of projectiles. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ben wore a bathing suit, his father’s flight jacket, frogman flippers, and an Indian headdress. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audit detailed instances of flight crews smoking cigarettes on the tarmac during refueling and in the freight area; and when the plane was in the air. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“My mom told me. She mentioned you might be leaving, too, but I had no idea we’d be on the same flight.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was one Lysander flight that was memorable because her passenger traveled with two guards. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When the flight ended, and the spacecraft plopped into the Pacific Ocean, I felt both great happiness and sadness. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after the war, posters from the 1950s showed only boys dreaming of flight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Two hours into Thai Air flight 311 from Bangkok to Kathmandu, I left my seat and walked to the rear of the airplane. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at her a long time, but couldn’t think of anything to say, and ran back down the three flights to the garden where Sally needed to be saved. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she worked with the engineers to build a course from the warmth and safety of their home to the cold void beyond, Katherine Gobles talents would truly take flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This was the unit that Marina Raskova would be commanding herself—she, too, had had to learn to fly the complex Pe-2 before she could lead her flight crews into battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re asking for volunteers with flexible travel plans who are willing to take a later flight.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a flight tonight at five-thirty....Oh wait, no, that one is full, too...Let’s see.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Outside his bedchamber a flight of steps descended to a larger room furnished with a scarred pinewood table and a dozen oak-and-leather chairs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But when my adrenaline spikes, like it is now, when my body feels fight and flight in the same instant, everything falls into sharp focus. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A photograph of the two young women in flight helmets, grinning with pleasure, was splashed on the cover. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Try this: You’re not going to draw a picture of the bird. You’re going to draw a picture of the bird’s flight line.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was still on the airplane, a Delta flight, from Salt Lake to Winnepeg. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Winging the heavy air in a straight flight a crow, maybe, would have flown but a furlong from their hiding-place to the black summit of the nearer tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t be panicking—flight attendants were trained not to panic. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My mother was kind enough to meet my flight at O’Hare. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When she came to the top of the last flight, she looked down and saw the man coming at Francie and saw that Francie was frozen to the banister spokes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a stupid time to be thinking such things, rushing as she was down the endless flights of stairs toward a potentially ghost-wielding sorceress. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then she came to the flight to Connecticut and all the bitterness and confusion of the past weeks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The crawlway was a narrow, square, cold tunnel hollowed out beneath the flight controls, and a large man like Yossarian could squeeze through only with difficulty. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Back in America, a seventeen-year-old boy told his friends that the flight had inspired him to put all his efforts into accomplishing something similar. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

New bomber planes roared overhead in flight tests. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was a dangerous job with long flights and hazardous conditions. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the stars in the uppermost sky, drawing the shape of the condor in flight with his fingers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Behind the velvet rope rises a flight of stairs edged with blinking lights. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Lunch wraps took flight and wheeled in the air like gulls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I’m strapped in my seat next to Mustafa for our second flight, from Paris to Chicago. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Yes, three flights down. Or the lift is faster, miss. Oh, wait, aren't you..." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sergio and another boy from New York were at the gate, early for their flight home. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As Harold Nicolson put it, he had a combination of “great flights of oratory with sudden swoops into the intimate and the conversational.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She leads him up five flights of uncarpeted stairs that creak noisily beneath their combined weight. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A swallow in flight is graceful, agile, and precise. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Some slept on the floor with their luggage, awaiting delayed flights. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was counting the numbers off as if I was running down a huge flight of stairs, and staring at the color photos of a car crash on the front of the newspaper. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have climbed the two flights of stairs, but she had no memory of it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Then, as Alex walked down the short flight of outdoor steps to his family’s basement apartment, the electricity went out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I run down four flights as fast as I can, exiting somewhere on the opposite side of where we parked. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The two hobbits trussed their small packs, put them on ready for flight, and then crawled deeper into the fern. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In addition to their flight preparations, all three young women had to learn to fire pistols and hunting weapons in case they were forced to land in the Siberian wilderness. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And it was because my gaze followed the path of Nyame’s flight that I noticed a group of familiar faces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They were both wearing tan flight suits and helmets with tinted visors. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The night before my flight, there was a feast in my college. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He paid a ransom to catch the next direct flight to Denver. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I step out of my room, out the front door, down the eight flights of steps. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You fill out a flight plane for one place and then you go to another. Don’t the people in the control towers ever raise hell?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

General Dreedle wanted his men to spend as much time out on the skeet-shooting range as the facilities and their flight schedule would allow. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Take flight like a bird, you deserve a birdcage.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A mask, flight, numbers in the millions producing numbers in the millions? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fyrian was already in flight, screaming and streaking flames across the night sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The key aim is to diminish an animal’s flight distance, which is the minimum distance at which an animal wants to keep a perceived enemy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mitch Henderson, the flight director for Ares 3, swiveled back and forth in his chair, a wireless earpiece in his ear. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that—this is hard to believe, but it was a dull flight for some time after that. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I went into a state of flight, running to get away from the unearthly landscape. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way down a short flight of stairs to the main deck, where David and the Committee agents were already hog-tying their new captives. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Because it was a long flight, there were two other pilots. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She made her first solo flight in the first week of the new year, between snow flurries. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Getting dressed for a space flight takes a long time. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a panic in Kino now, a panic of flight. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the two flights of stairs, out back to the parking lot. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He walked down the twelve flights slowly, not wanting to waste more strength than he had. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A bomber flight had been moving east all the time they talked, and only now did the two men stop and listen, feeling the great jet sound tremble inside themselves. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d done such a calculated job of using her aircraft as a battering ram that she was still able to use her flight controls afterward. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Beneath it is a sketch of a bird in flight. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I will meet you there!—and as I got on the connecting flight from New York to Detroit. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Writing to his friend Atticus, he said, “The Queen’s flight does not distress me at all.” Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Camp Hardy happens to be where Lumumba was held, and beaten to within an inch of his life, before his death flight to Katanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The point of a wind tunnel, of course, was to simulate as closely as possible the conditions that prevailed in free flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"Let me see if I can get you on a flight today," she said. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Down on the street, ten flights below, the little toy trees are beginning to turn reddish, like someone is lighting a match to them. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We already have slow interstellar flight, and think fast interstellar flight a possible goal for the human species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This entire flight has been selected for gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But my laughter stopped abruptly when Sumac took off suddenly in flight. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We all agreed on a meeting time and place in the terminal after our return flights Sunday evening, then we headed off to our gates. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I ceased my flight; and he turned this way and that, darting to elude them until he was surrounded. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

So we sat, silently, next to each other on the black vinyl seats in the arrivals lounge, waiting for Joey’s flight from San Francisco. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A little girl traveling to New York from Chicago had gotten on the wrong flight and had ended up in Miami. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They are ugly gray insects, with such quick flight that they are hard to kill. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t jump on the next flight though, like someone with nothing better to do, like someone who’d been waiting for that phone call her entire life. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Harry scribbled the dates down on the back of Sirius’s letter, tied it onto the brown owl’s leg, and watched it take flight again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

So like an unstoppable mob, like a tidal wave, like an avalanche, we rushed into Camillo Junior High, up two flights of stairs, and to the doorway of our classroom. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lily Lee Adams flew in on a flight from Hawaii. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“So you are going to show up!” his voice took off in one of its flights, “and you brought me something to eat from down South, didn’t you? Honeysuckle and molasses or something like that?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two additional runs were made, hoping that the target might be picked up after closer observation,” weaponeer Frederick Ashworth wrote in his flight log. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 1:41:48, the captain says, “Wiper on,” and the flight engineer turns the wipers on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She was covered in mud and scratches from their flight through the woods, but neither the pastor nor his wife seemed to mind much. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A short flight of warped steps led up to an empty doorway, where double doors had once granted access. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Since flight and hiding were no longer possible, Frodo and Sam sprang to their feet, putting back to back and whipping out their small swords. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Rule l: Nunu has to stay on her side of the flight line.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The searchers would get government planes and cover both sides of the flight plan filed by the pilot and search until they found him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now,” he says, “we get to walk up a million flights of stairs.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I turn my gaze skyward and watch the flight of a hawk across the sky. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Even now, she acknowledged, “affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes, among other things. But you are tired now, and it will be a long flight We’ll talk when you wake up.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We walked behind the scriv’s desk and down a flight of stairs to a small featureless room with a table and two chairs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The flight engineer latched the door and handed out wads of cotton to stuff in our ears, and the behemoth chopper lumbered into the air with a head-splitting roar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He removed the flight jacket and held it up for a moment, the odor of leather mingling with the coffee smells. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the stairs up the two flights to the fourth floor and ring Elena’s doorbell. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The day of the flight, Stephen writes, “Mom’s off to meet her ninety-one-year-old birth mother. Go figure. A whole new life at the age of sixty-eight!” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Although she applied to local flight schools, she was turned down due to her age—so she took up parachute training. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I reach the station where we’ll catch the train, and lead Caleb up a flight of metal steps to the platform. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t leap up a flight of stairs with it; neither could he leave it behind. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The dolphin were cutting through the water below the flight of the fish and would be in the water, driving at speed, when the fish dropped. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed at the window for the rest of the flight, spellbound, hunkered over a trash bag full of empty soda cans and half-eaten meals, my face pressed against the cold Plexiglas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Crawling back in the driver’s seat, he put the wheel into climb position, buzzed up into the air once more, and resumed his flight back to the repair shop. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Maddie hugged her knees, reeling with the magic and menace of that stolen flight. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

After they became the 46th Guards, they were allowed to form a third flight squadron and a training squadron. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As we were watching a flaming tin roof in flight, we heard screams and loud banging a few houses away. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She drafted drawings of new flight instruments and prepared them for testing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was an amazingly successful flight, and cheered us all up, even though I suppose we all still thought a lot about the dreadful fire. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cringing with fear, the monsters of Ignorance turned in flight and, with anguished cries too horrible ever to forget, returned to the damp, dark places from which they came. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

All over he was scratched and bruised from his flight through the forest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was in the attic—in the dark she must have missed the landing and gone up two flights instead of one. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Soon Sam came to a long flight of broad shallow steps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The long, frail wings trembled as she squeezed through, and then the joy of flight took over the creature, and it plunged into the wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If it’s not an operational flight,” said the squadron leader, “there’s no need to ring Intelligence. I’ll take responsibility.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Butterflies took flight in a dazzling display of colors, and I tried to focus. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Go. I must do this without you,” I said, and with a quick bob of his head, the Handsome One took off in flight. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

That is what they call it when you go along in an aircraft just for the ride and don’t meaningfully contribute to a successful flight. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The suborbital flight in the capsule Shepard christened Freedom 7 lasted only fifteen minutes and twenty-two seconds and covered 303 miles, just about the distance between Hampton, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The merry flight of the bats around the steeple of First Congregational stilled, the blurred stars began to come out, and the first owl call sounded, low and sonorous. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When I got my wings, after a most enjoyable year of flight training, I also got some great news. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cara leads us to a hack staircase, and we join a group of terrified Erudite as we run up one, two, three flights of stairs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A flight with no turbulence and an empty seat next to her. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the top, two flight attendants dressed in impeccable uniforms give me dazzling smiles and a bow of their heads. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The greatest test of the airplane’s new prowess—a nonstop flight through the turbulent skies over the Atlantic Ocean—remained to be achieved, though. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Probably this way...hotel expenses will be saved for cabin crews, and maximize the flight hours. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I would imagine Malcolm, his body bound in a cell, studying the books, trading his human eyes for the power of flight. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes pilot and navigator both fell asleep in flight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I followed the boys through the twisting streets until I saw them turn a corner and scurry down a flight of stairs into the basement of a burned-out building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I felt gratitude for all the people on my team who’d given everything to the work, sorting through handwritten letters, fact-checking my speeches, hopping cross-country flights to prepare for our events. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Charlie moves ahead past the little park-like area and stops to show us where the bags from our flight will be. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The force of his flight buffeted her back, and she watched him climb into the sky, over the trees, and then he was gone into the cooling day. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

All plaques hold important facts, like the wild turkey sign, not only about the animal in flight, but about conservation efforts to help them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Rabbits in flight tend to keep away from each other, and the does had opened out as they left the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was poised for flight, but I was waiting for some event, some word, some act, some circumstance to furnish the impetus. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know, now, that last night’s dream was the last flight I’ll take. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“While I have flight, I will be here always for you.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They came out of the south and stayed for two suns, hunting food in the ravines, and then flew off in one great flight toward the north. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most they saw that day was a school of silver pannies swimming south, but never a dolphin leapt nor did the flight of gull or murre or tern break the grey air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was up three flights of stone steps to Lord Ramsay’s bedchamber, one of the rooms the fires had touched but lightly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I took my bicycle out and down the three flights of stairs to the street, I decided it would just be for a spin around the block. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In 1927, when Charles Lindbergh made his groundbreaking first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, less than 1 percent of American pilots were women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The television was on; Laurel and Hardy, obscured by a blizzard of electronic snow, were trying to move a grand piano up a great many flights of stairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were all truly equal in the eyes of God and man, and his apartment at least had the advantage of not requiring anyone to walk up ten flights of stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hooper went away, down the next flight of stairs and then along the corridor leading back into the main part of the house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But Lyddie’s head pounded too much for her to insist that they take her up still another flight of stairs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I type the flight number, the date we arrive, and the airline we’re flying on. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She closed the slots between her flight feathers and maneuvered the bumps like a mogul skier. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When they moved on it was no longer panic flight. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a neat flight plan, especially the space-walk part. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the plane Elizebeth would have been on if she had taken the 10:00 p.m. flight out of Washington. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The following evening they board a Pan Am flight to London, where after a five-hour layover they will board a second flight to Calcutta, via Tehran and Bombay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Currently all flights to the ISS are conducted through the Russian Federal Space Agency. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the noble lineage of his aerial maps, the flight had been a failure. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On some flights, they flew in replacement troops, both Vietnamese and American, to the camps. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Olive was tugging at the thick padded flight glove on her left hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were thresholds of flight that Brannon could not or would not pass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dauntless was a larger ship and much faster and the captain laughed at the Ray's attempt at flight. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing my arm to stop me from leaving, she shined her flashlight up a dark flight of steps leading to the third floor. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We had about an hour before our flight, so Daddy went over to him and came back carrying a bag of treats. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flight of steps led down into profound darkness. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some of them had been wounded by plantation owners who had attempted to halt their flight. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fifty-eight minutes early for their connecting flight home. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Clutching my musket, I ran back toward him; and was stopped in my progress by Pro Bono, who, sensible of the pause in my flight, had returned to see what delayed me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It stayed fair with moderate winds for the duration of their flight. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

An enraged President Reagan called the downing of Korean Airlines flight 007 "an act of barbarism." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He is unaccustomed to the banality of domestic flights, the narrow cabin, the single bag he’s packed, small enough to stow overhead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped to set a new women’s long-distance record for nonstop flight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Amazons confiscated the trio’s weapons and marched them down so many flights of stairs, Hazel lost count. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was as good as he with both slingshots and painstakingly constructed bows and arrows, with which I could drop birds in flight. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Give her six months' severance and put her on the next flight back home. I'll send over someone less...distracting. Svetlana is older, a grandmother type, and utterly brilliant. Her goulash is to die for." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Marina Raskova led the way for the three women’s flight regiments of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Soon, foam flecked upper lips of all eight men and thin lines of beer and saliva ran like threads of light from mouths to flight jackets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Prosper didn't answer immediately, he turned abruptly and ran up the next flight of stairs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oberth figured out the mathematical equations which proved that space flight was practical. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He almost stumbled up to the flight of steps, held himself steady, and began to climb, silent, careful, slow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the flight attendants offer to help him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the fathers huddled together, discussing their flight plans, while the mothers took a head count. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was about noon, and the next flight to Syracuse wasn’t until four in the afternoon. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read “Indian Camp” and held Annie’s hand for the whole flight, but I didn’t say anything to her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the end of an hour they had gone a mile, or maybe a little more, and had descended many flights of stairs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was on the morning of our return flight that she finally revealed her joke, and our father wept with relief. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He walked a fine line filling out the form: making the launch date and flight path clear, while doing everything possible to "conceal state secrets." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the disastrous flight had a happy ending. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I asked him, and he said, ‘They’re the rare worst of bad luck. You take a flight of white pigeons and they’ll bring sadness and death. Get gray ones.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nina hurtled past the guards’ bodies, down one flight, two flights. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Some, unable to book space on scheduled flights, had chartered planes. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in its appearance to suggest that it could move, much less take flight across the snowy peaks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cameramen, pursuing the prisoners and the police into the courthouse and up three flights of stairs, photographed the door of the county jail slamming shut. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The astronauts, former test pilots and combat veterans accustomed to riding with the shadow of death on every flight, put themselves in NASA’s hands. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The rain continued sporadically, so that by Wednesday the creek had swollen to the trunk of the crab apple and they were running through ankle-deep water to make their flight into Terabithia. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our flight to Dubai was fourteen hours, and we crossed another eight time zones. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

John Henry pounded his fist on the ground, sending tremors through the whole forest, and I flinched as hundreds of butterflies took flight in a flurry of silent wings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They would take the next flight and arrive at her door, she knew, ready to spirit Pearl away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Until the day their lord father’s heart had burst in his chest as he was ascending a steep flight of steps to her bed, that is. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now she had finally taken the ultimate flight into space only to have her fellow cosmonauts joking about her cooking for them? Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

My legs know I should just go, board my flight, keep moving. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But this would mean exile, a flight from danger into danger, drawing it after me. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time I found my way to the right gate, I’d missed my flight. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t realize how hard I’m gripping my seat until the flight attendant taps me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"On my flight out of Atlanta, there were seven unaccompanied minors," I said. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turning to Ben she said, “Dad’s flight jacket will be good to wrap fish in or cover a body if we ever witness a murder.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could outrun startled rabbits, outrun a bird in flight. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As the flight continues north, look west, at the hills of what are now the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guerrero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The black notebook was used to jot down each and every problem I found with the spacecraft or the flight plan. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loeffler said my new flight jacket reminded him of something, and he went up into his attic so he could find it while I brought the groceries in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he reached Miami for his connecting flight to Port-au-Prince, however, the sign above the check-in desk read canceled. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She memorized the flight patterns of the birds as they soared above, studying them every single day. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The strange man was walking briskly down the platform and up a flight of steps. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They watched the peacock walk out of the shadow of a tree, then its lugubrious flight up to its favorite perch on the roof, where it stood and surveyed the decayed kingdom below. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mostly they seemed pleased that anyone cared enough to climb all those flights of stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The set consists of the future, which will be sparsely furnished, but will contain a good many cylindrical black columns and several austere flights of stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 1947, the laboratory bought an “electronic calculator” from Bell Telephone Laboratories, an investment in the ongoing need for transonic flight research. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Inigo followed, not bothering to try to check the other man’s flight; there would always be time for that later. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning in January 1942, some of the young women who’d never flown before but who were training as navigators took their first flights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his father’s nylon flight jacket and he was carrying the last two sleeping bags to the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mr. Dubonnet, Tom, and Jake left, we boys gathered with Basil beside the blockhouse to discuss the results of the flight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rémy walks Elisabeth and me down the six flights of stairs and through the Grand Entry Hall to the south wing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The boys had handrails on their left, and they traveled the long way around the platform halfway up the flight. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The next morning I didn't go down to breakfast, which meant going down two flights of stairs to the cafeteria. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The male prisoners were led clanking up a dark flight of stairs to a metal walkway. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Here is the flight recorder transcript of the final thirty minutes of KAL flight 801: It begins with the captain complaining of exhaustion. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“What about the rest of our group? We’re traveling together—a group of schoolchildren—a quiz team, actually. They were also booked on this flight. We’ve got a competition this evening.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The resulting volume of garbage overwhelmed its disposal system, which consisted of janitors bumping large barrels of fetid garbage down the same three flights of stairs used by customers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My eyes jumped from the digital clock—my return flight was in a few hours—to the mailbox numbers on the tree-lined suburban street. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passed through a loudly clanking doorway and went down two flights of concrete stairs that reeked of clove cigarettes and perfume. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A scythe had entered the plane and was talking to a flight attendant. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A voice, speaking English with an elegant Hausa accent, announced that the passengers from the London flight should proceed to board the flight for Lagos. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To faze is to disconcert or embarrass; it comes from a Middle English word, fesen, which meant “drive away” or “put to flight.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This works rather well, for example, when planning the flight of a rocket to the Moon. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I imagined our reunion for almost the entire flight. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her blue dress makes her look like a bird, caught before she could take flight. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The students flew every day as long as the weather let them, working on flight skills and cross-country navigation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He made us leave four hours early and drove us the hour and a half to Chicago way before Thaya Jaan’s flight was due to arrive. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We boarded the plane for the final leg of our journey, a short flight to northern New York. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He also described the flight of birds and the swimming motion of fish in mathematical terms. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Six people in an ascent vehicle originally designed for a twenty-three-minute flight. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The United States responded by banning all commercial Soviet flights from US airspace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Still on and up the stairway bent and crawled, until at last with a final flight, short and straight, it climbed out again on to another level. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The administrator had given a speech as well, reminding everyone that space flight is incredibly dangerous, and that we will not back down in the face of adversity. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandresh leaps up to the stage, taking the small flight of stairs in only two steps. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s that sound, the low moan that in an instant takes flight and turns into something sweet. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you and your family have a pleasant flight on TWA, Mr. Winter,” said the operator cheerily, and hung up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

To date, the Shuttle has flown about sixty times, all but one of the flights successful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So we checked our stuff real fast, then rushed—I mean, ran like track stars, even Mr. Dimming—down to the gate to get that early flight.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Fight, flight, or neurosis” was how William described the general symptoms to himself later on, struggling to make sense of them on paper. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the eventual outcome of the flight is the same: after a few seconds, the raven arrives at the tree. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They climbed the six flights of stairs easily—laughing and planning for the dance recital. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the days passed and the mice stayed healthy, our spirits rose, and finally, on August 10, 1969, the flight of Apollo 11 ended and we were released to the world. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind swirls back over the day, over Ms. Dale’s ideas about instincts and flight, and the way that Ms. Dale tells Daniel and him about their world. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then he let readers relive the mass flight from the city, see the closed shops and empty streets, and meet suffering fever victims and those who bravely stayed to help them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“The coffin flipped over, and she slid down the whole flight. They were all horrified, but she looked entirely unaffected!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had eighty-nine hundred hours of flight time, including thirty-two hundred hours of experience in jumbo jets. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It would be the most harrowing flight imaginable for the two airmen. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But those flights I’ve just listed are the flights that count. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But that was something we didn’t have to worry about on Gemini 7; there would be no EVA on this flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thrown off balance, Frightful fanned her flight feathers, regained her equilibrium, and went after the owl. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As they waited, hearts pounding from their flight from the monastery and the strange, terrifying encounter they had had there, Jeanne looked at Michelangelo. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He evaluated the English language skills of all of the airline’s flight crews. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He had a limitless capacity for being everywhere, for appearing on the flight line when he was supposed to be signing weekend passes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was waiting for a klm flight from Amsterdam, which carried a passenger who had come from Kenya. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would not try the flight, and he threw his rider. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was molting his flight feathers and chose to be alone. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I draw them without thinking—flight, flight, feather, wing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a little flight of steps down the side of the shed, down to the pit. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At first I was terrified, shaking with the cold and the panicky flight of my heart, which seemed to be drowning as the poison rose up in my chest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you might try this flight of stairs,” he suggested, opening another door and pointing up. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to control the tumbling motion of my flight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were rockets like a flight of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At this point Hunt concluded that he needed to be evacuated, but by now the sky had turned cloudy, ruling out the possibility of a helicopter flight. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But the flight of the Rodina had to be delayed because Marina was hospitalized with appendicitis. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The dark sky was clear when they started out, but as the flight went on, the wind picked up—and then it began to snow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the mitochondria in their flight muscles go out of business. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also clear that Tom had dealings with the Elves, and it seemed that in some fashion, news had reached him from Gildor concerning the flight of Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could see them leaning far out into the open air, hours from flight. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She forced the hand around the flight controls. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Is the flight on time? Remember we are taking Nigel out for his birthday,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We flew homework airplanes for two hours, daydreaming about who would find them and where they’d land and wondering if anyone would see them in flight, like we were seeing them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond was a flight of wooden steps, steep and twisting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Also the strange habit of shaking their bills sideways, which was usual before flight, began to grow upon them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his flight jacket and his inspection shoes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their alarms go off three hours later for their flights home. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He liked to stretch his arms in condor flight and then wrap them around his body to become the poor woman huddled in a cold, shivering ball. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Our flight is at six in the morning, and we have to get to the train by three. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Taking flight, she sped around the barn and into a pine tree at the edge of a woodlot. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When Zhenya wrote a letter home five days after her squadron’s first flight, her tone was full of enthusiasm. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Katie stood alone on the top of the last flight of steps with her hands clasped before her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, Miao-Yao speakers did not acquire their current fragmented distribution as a result of ancient helicopter flights that dropped them here and there over the Asian landscape. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is no more awesome sight than a dragon first taking flight. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The BFG’s head was level with the upper windows one flight up, and Sophie, sitting in his ear, had the same view. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a kitchen, and a door beside it that opened on to a narrow flight of stairs, carpeted in a bright floral pattern. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before he could find his legs, the hairy beast took flight. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother needed to hurry to catch her flight. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I guessed it was from dragging these two huge plastic bags up the seven flights to our place. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Using an iron shovel from the Dalton basement, Buckley showed how the bones had been raked out; explained how Bigger had “craftily crept up the stairs during the excitement and taken flight.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Buddy, you up for another flight to nowhere in particular?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We run up a dozen flights of stairs until we reach the wide, empty roof. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He found his way through the stale, dark, dank corridors to the flight of stairs. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Usually, the experts on the ground would tell a Gemini crew which way to steer to find their Agena, but on this flight—as an experiment—we were supposed to figure it out ourselves. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each aircrew risked two or three of these bombing flights in a day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He may have thought that being put in charge of a women’s flight regiment was his punishment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Due to the perilous nature of our trip, we weren't allowed to inform family members we were leaving until the eve of our flight. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were on the second floor, not the third, so there were only two flights of stairs to be negotiated. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

North Korea’s news agency denounced the flight as “premeditated allurement, abduction, and terrorism.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As people walked out of the tunnel, I imagined he was somewhere in the back of the plane, telling the flight attendants stories, making everyone laugh, and us wait. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In her lap sat a fashion magazine she’d picked up at London’s Heathrow Airport, where they had caught their flight for the final leg of their journey. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He closed the book and lugged the second box down the hall and down the three flights of stairs to the main floor. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We can reach it by a thiny-minute charter flight from Miami, yet never reach it all. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was thirty-one, he piloted a flight to northern Iran to pick up a high-ranking official. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Outside, on his landing, there was no moonlight, and he felt his way in the dark, first on the carpeted upper staircase, and then, for the last two flights, on the bare, polished oak. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Above us, the screens said which flights were landing and which were taking off. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Amarante Cordova was young he used to throw stones at birds in flight. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get your shoulders back. You’re slouching again. That’s it. Now you’re standing like a soldier. All right, children, let’s say another Hail Mary that Dad’s plane will have a safe flight.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words of the dead, drifting down from the heavens like feathers from birds in flight. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Early flight. And catching up from this week.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It’s a four-hour flight from Phoenix to Seattle, another hour in a small plane up to Port Angeles, and then an hour drive back down to Forks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Have a long trip down,” she said, then leapt onto the banister, sliding from one flight to the next, slick as butter in a pan. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Darius leaves and walks up a flight of stairs at the other end of the basement, and I kneel down in front of Layla to rub her forehead. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s got the two new pilots with him on a training flight Doc Daneeka’s up there, too.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

An hour or two into the flight, they served a meal. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. It turned out to be your wife dressed in your flight suit. We recognized her by her mustache,” Major Reynolds, Bull’s executive officer, shot back. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No notice was taken of Amy’s flight, except by her mates, but the sharp-eyed demoiselles discovered that Mr. Davis was quite benignant in the afternoon, also unusually nervous. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they returned to the airport at sundown for their night flight overseas, a storm was swirling somewhere over the dark Atlantic. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Apollo 9 was the first test flight of the lunar module, in earth orbit, and Apollo 10 was to be a dress rehearsal in lunar orbit, involving a rendezvous but not a landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bagdikian headed to the airport for an early flight to Washington. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

So before the vision could fade, I carried the box of erasers down the hall, down two flights of steps, and outside. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I pull on my powder-blue sweatsuit, my disguise as a non-artist, and go down the four flights of stairs, trying to look brisk and purposeful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were forced down a steep flight of stairs, still tied back-to-back and in danger of slipping and breaking their necks at any moment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Although their flight appeared to have no pattern, it made a certain kind of sense to the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the flight to Los Angeles, she could not stop thinking about Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Still, the broadcasters knew—everyone in the audience knew—that even with twenty-six manned flights under NASA’s belt, this was different, and they struggled to come up with superlatives to capture the moment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We have to climb twenty flights of stairs to get to the Choosing Ceremony. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Many Langley folks joined the Space Task Group down at Cape Canaveral to see the flight in person. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He’s good at it A shrill voice had announced the departing flight to Oakland. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll catch the first flight to Lagos tomorrow, Ari, so you can rest before we start shopping. I don’t want to do anything that will be difficult for you,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They walked up a grand flight of stairs. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She looked inside their doorway at the endlessly long flight of stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The records show that you went up in Me Watt’s plane to collect some flight time. You didn’t come down in a parachute, so you must have been killed in the crash.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The next day the wind dropped and Kehaar made one or two short flights. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine, and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was the tillerman’s daemon, and clumsy and heavy as she looked, her flight was powerful and swift. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. Everyone, lock and load. V flight pattern. Establish a perimeter inside the Manor grounds.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When she reached 18, it was a commercial license; two years later, she also had a flight instructor rating and an instrument rating. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

And when I carried and tugged the trees up three or four or five flights of stairs, I laughed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There were dull yellow lanterns lighting up a dark flight of stone steps. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For a brief second, every horror came back to her, and she truly was a wraith, a ghost taking flight from a body that had given her only pain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The flight of Apollo 11 ended a remarkable part of my life. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Visitors walked up three flights of stairs, growls echoing around them, and into a long, windowless passageway. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In a test flight, a pilot staked his reputation and his life on his ability to exercise total, direct, and constant control over the plane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I really wanted to prove her wrong on that point, but my flight instinct was stronger. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Pol saw the growing frustration on her face, and he took the bow from her and showed her, again, the smooth rhythm of the draw, the arrow in flight, his hand in the air. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I vaguely realized that we were headed up the next flight of stairs, but I wasn’t paying much attention to my surroundings. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She liked the airiness of the living room, with its large windows, and the narrow flight of stairs that led to a tiny verandah charmed her, but, most of all, it was in Ikoyi. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The six familiar, friendly faces of the flight instrument panel smiled at her behind the control column. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Her flight is officially booked for next month. She’s going to stay with us for a whole week.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t any kind of media announcement about how to join the women’s flight regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Me neither,” he said, his eyes tracing the bird’s circular flight. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a woman with a shawl sitting on the fourth flight smoking a cigarette. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was even better than wearing this flight jacket, which—unless Joe Pepitone’s jacket turns up—is the only thing I own that hasn’t belonged to some other Swieteck before me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In May, she made a triumphant flight on purpose into enemy territory and back. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“As smooth as the third transatlantic flight in a week can be.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I did not want to climb another flight of stairs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Built into a circular room, and controlled by a computer, the arm could be made to turn at whatever speed was necessary to imitate the loads we would experience under various flight conditions. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Migrating birds rested and gathered strength for the long flight north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

His family would later tell investigators that he went to the gym for an hour, then came home and studied the flight plan for that evening’s journey to Guam. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“A test flight is all the inspection it needs,” Dad replied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I followed Mom down the two flights of stairs, keeping my head lowered so that I wouldn’t have to look at anybody. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doorway of Matthew Wood’s house led into a shallow hallway from which a narrow flight of stairs climbed steeply. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The terrified chicken took to ungainly flight in a flurry of golden feathers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Stockdale handed back the paper, walked to his stateroom, and hung his flight gear in his locker. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get us a flight. You understand. I need to get out of here, have some girl time.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As Rabiya and I climb back down the three flights of stairs, I try not to notice the stains on the steps or the musty odor that smells faintly of overripe fruit. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Celaena didn’t have time to shout as it launched into flight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But a little corner of her mind was sorrowing that her friend’s first flight was not being made through a still summer evening of golden light over the green Pennines. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I look out the window, at the planes perched on the runway, gleaming and poised for flight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My flight spacesuit has a hole in it, and of course the crew was wearing the other five when they returned to Hermes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wears white condor flight gloves with elaborate gold fining, which means he’s already completed fighter pilot training. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We go up a flight of rickety wooden stairs to the second floor; when I stumble, Nino Carlitos puts his hand at my back to make sure I don’t fall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after her arrival at Stalingrad, Lilya Litvyak had become the first woman in the world to shoot down enemy combat aircraft on her own—not one, but two in the same flight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In comparison, Ash felt clumsy and shy, and sometimes she caught herself staring at Gwen as if she were some kind of exotic bird about to take flight. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We do always advise passengers to call ahead and check their flight status.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Just before one-thirty in the morning, the plane broke out of the clouds, and the flight crew glimpsed lights off in the distance. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand francs reward for captured Allied flight crew or parachutists, “more under certain circumstances.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Their reinforcements settled in, some of the more senior pilots and navigators were promoted, and the three-person flight crews got changed around. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But with only one operational success under its belt and with six Mercury missions to go—with the orbital flight still on the drawing board—NASA’s road to the Moon seemed unimaginably complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Rojakke?” he asked as he passed her and started up the second flight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the flight of stairs into the hall, however, he heard a tap on the front door, then metallic clicks and the grinding of the chain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, we are. And neither the flight nor the stay will cost us any Cookie Monster Cash!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Three days prior to the most significant date of his life, Glenn went through a final simulation, carrying out a full checkout of his flight plan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

During the ensuing week, additional flights were booked and then canceled by Fischer as headlines began to question whether he’d appear at all. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But whatever the reason for flight, the means remained hidden. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now Brian sat, looking out the window with the roar thundering through his ears, and tried to catalog what had led up to his taking this flight. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a doubt, the most intense wartime relationships formed by any of Marina Raskova’s aviators were the bonds formed by a flight crew in combat. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I delight in our motion, though it be flight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Every morning my father trudged up a flight of stairs to the communal shower in nothing but a small white towel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Already a flight of four had been seen over the southwest shores of Hosk, not alighting but spying out the sheepfolds, barns, and villages. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Long flights of stairs led to front doors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A butterfly expanding and drying its wings before flight. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had made her use the airplane toilet while we were halfway through the flight. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Known as Wally, she was a flight instructor at Fort Sill, an army base in southwestern Oklahoma, when she picked up the Life magazine featuring Jerrie Cobb. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was just one way for the owners to silence their workers: by making the price of flight or rebellion too high. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The officers of the other five planes in each flight arrived in trucks for the general briefing that took place thirty minutes later. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

This was only the latest of many U-2 flights over the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

No known bird can match the speed of a peregrine falcon in flight. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In his mind he could see them flying to India, then hopping on a flight to Peshawar. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Bull unzipped his flight jacket but did not take it off. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They followed him quickly up a flight of steps which couldn’t be seen and through a door which didn’t exist. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two days ago they fled their master, having heard news of Lord Dunmore’s proclamation, and have spent the last two nights in flight across plantations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Gray sprang and came halfway through the window, catching Ben’s arm and tearing at the flight jacket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, our friends on the earlier flights had tried out as many of them as possible. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two other planes had arrived at the same time as their Virgin Atlantic flight, and the sea of pearly gray carpet swarmed with people, all waiting to have their papers processed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

From what he could gather about the flight times, he thought Elizebeth was probably safe, but he wasn’t sure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In 1938, she and two other Soviet women had splintered a world record in a long-distance flight they made across Siberia. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In 2000, Korean Air finally acted, bringing in an outsider from Delta Air Lines, David Greenberg, to run their flight operations. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So I made reservations for the next flight back upstate, then we went outside and sat and talked in his car in a parking lot. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hunter's Moon waxed round in the night sky, and put to flight all the lesser stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Put it on. It’s yours. That was my first flight jacket. The one I wore when I flew in WW Two with the Cobras,” Bull said as Ben slipped the jacket on. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the triumphant flight crews returned, another pair headed out to try the new strategy that very same night, and were just as successful. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Colonel Tadesse rapidly arranged for me to take an Ethiopian flight to Khartoum. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each crew member had two space suits: a flight spacesuit to wear during descent and ascent, and the much bulkier and more robust EVA suit to wear when doing surface operations. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday was panting as they went up the final flight of stairs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In the final five feet of a tennis ball’s flight toward a player, the ball is far too close and moving much too fast to be seen. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Parachuting was counted as aviation experience because it required flight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Further flight was useless, for his father had decided to bombard him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to think of them down at the church, going through that door and down the flight of stairs to the crypt. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I glanced at him, I felt that old instinct at work in me, tensing my muscles, preparing me to take flight. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And they would probably search most heavily at first along the flight plan course. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re here to check in for the noon flight to Washington, D.C.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He was off, running silently into the front of the house, from which the stairway led up two flights to the attic. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in six months, I felt that the Apollo 11 flight was definitely going to be a success. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the New York flight I was in the same seat, with the same guy next to me! Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flight of stairs only descended three levels, though there was no exit until they reached the final one. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A ghat, a long, wide flight of steps, led down to the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

One flight up, Joseph pushed open the blue door and explored the lady’s sitting room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Twig yelled wildly as we pounded down the three flights of stairs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The captain says something about “cruising altitude” and tells us how long the flight will be. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Dakari’s arms are extended like he’s about to take flight, his expression absolutely jubilant. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then comes one of the most critical moments in the flight. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There were arches of spun sugar, towers of pastry, basted birds posed for flight. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“We have two options for your meal today,” said the flight attendant with a white-toothed smile. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Fresh flowers and tender shoots of vegetation were used to supplement the worm diet, also berries and whatever fruit a Sparra could carry in flight. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She looked like a flight attendant—blue business suit, perfect makeup, hair pulled back in a ponytail. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Riddle was pointing Harry’s wand at Fawkes; there was a bang like a gun, and Fawkes took flight again in a whirl of gold and scarlet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The GIs were spread on other planes and me and Peewee talked a lieutenant into putting us both on a flight to Fort Ord, in California. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow read the list of in-flight music channels available on transatlantic flights, and then he was looking at the map of the world with red lines on it that showed where the airline flew. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Her wings spread in glorious flight, she looked down on the vast landscape. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The flight from Seattle crept closer to the top of the board. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When a clear voice announced the arrival of a Nigeria Airways flight, the father sprang up and then sat down again. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The planned suborbital flights presented a controlled set of challenges. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Loki had lost his appetite, which his friends attributed to his flight in the air. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Later in the day as I came around a corner, she tripped me so that I fell down a flight of stairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people at once dug up their last gold pieces to take advantage of a quick flight over the houses of the village. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s almost nine o’clock, and I gotta run down eight flights of stairs. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Gwydion strode to the riverbank and stood watching the gwythaints’ flight. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Even if you had gotten on the plane, you would’ve been caught when exchanging flights in London. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I felt the fight-or-flight reflex swell up in me over and over again, but I knew that neither fight nor flight had ever worked for me before. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She chose flight so she could travel the world. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They walked through the entrance, down the corridor, and finally down the flights of stairs that led to the playing field. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They climbed up four flights of stairs, twisting past closed doors. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull on my crumpled shirt, then grab my backpack holding my few belongings and follow the flight attendant down the ramp. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon after turning 18, Svetlana began flight training at Moscow Aviation Institute. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I figured the chances were about fifty-fifty for Apollo 11 to be the first flight to try a landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They groped their way down a long flight of steps, and then looked back; but they could see nothing, except high above them the faint glimmer of the wizard’s staff. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The pair made their way quickly down the flight of stairs and to the door of the room where Jo slept. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before I could go to flight school, I had to do basic training down at Camp Leonard Wood. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So when we got to the airport, they told us that the noon flight had just been cancelled but that we could make the early flight if we hurried.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

His laughter startled a flight of crows from the tall brown grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I run up the next flight of stairs to the terrace, where I keep the bucket and mop. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, he had been given a flight safety award by his airline for successfully handling a jumbo-jet engine failure at low altitude. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The pace of progress has continued to be brisk: manned orbital flight; humans orbiting, then landing on the moon; and unmanned spacecraft outward bound throughout the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed past Ucho, trying to stay beneath Sumac’s flight path so I wouldn’t lose him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

By then a second flight was in the air, and the archers were fitting a third arrow to their bowstrings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They opened that door and saw a flight of stairs leading very steeply down. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Contrary to common belief, however, the bus doesn’t lie beneath any established flight path, and very few planes fly over it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Torn between his incompatible loyalties to Lawrence and to Strauss, Alvarez finally opted to serve the latter, and booked a seat on the red-eye flight to Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Three hours after my flight landed in Peshawar, I was sitting on shredded upholstery in the backseat of a smoke-filled taxicab. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He could see them in their leather flight jackets, their dark mantles, having just come down from doing things that smaller, punier men could never do, doing things that only gods could do. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the whole flight down, Bull allowed his fantasies to roam the country of his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowds of travelers, airport staff, and flight crews rush by us in both directions. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She had to keep working as a flight instructor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One day a visiting official saw one of her performances and ordered Aleksandr Gridnev, “She will be arrested for forty-five days for a violation of flight regulations.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In silver inlay on the breastplate of his burnished scarlet armor was a white tree bare and dead, surrounded by a flock of onyx ravens taking flight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All nine flight crews survived the June 2 battle, and while they’d been in the air they shot down four of the enemy fighters themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There was the rushing sound of seventy-five thousand voices and the tumbling motion of horses and the flight of wind and dirt and the airy unreal feeling of mass and gravity slipping away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands at the top of a short flight, only seven steps long, and I stand at the bottom. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Gemini 10 flight was going to be a lot different from Gemini 7. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flight of Auk XXII-D was to be the final flight in the series that used countersunk nozzles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a final step, Katherine plotted the data in order to give engineers a visual snapshot of the planes disrupted flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of the flight seemed to go by in a blink. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She began to descend in the oblong flight pattern she’d used earlier. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Birds,” she murmured as the Witch took flight. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They strode down corridors, up flights of stairs, and around and around until she hadn’t the slightest chance of finding her way out again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The man's rapier took flight and came to earth in the water of the ditch. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And maybe brave my first flight ever so I can go to that Harry Potter park in Florida.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I walk up the two flights of steps to our apartment. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What do you want us to do? Fly back and forth? And who’s going to pay for it? The flights alone would cost...” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Next moment the country dropped away beneath them, and whirled round as Fledge, like a huge pigeon, circled once or twice before setting off on his long westward flight. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She took him by the hand and drew him up two flights of stairs, then down a long hall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When the Wright brothers made their famous first powered flight on December 17, 1903, aviation fever seized the world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At an early practice, as the boys were scrimmaging, a gaggle of geese took flight from a pond on the other side of the woods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Just think, it was only sixty-six years from the Wright brothers’ first flight to Neil Armstrong’s landing on the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even today, a pilot is trained to learn emergency flight procedures as a memorized sequence, so that if your engine fails, you have an automatic routine to help you ward off panic and land safely. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I moved slowly, as if a wild bird had landed there and I was desperately trying to avoid startling it into flight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was going to stay and wait and ask the transport angel all my questions, but it did not seem right to interrupt the flight of Signora Mondopoco. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Hello, sir? We’re looking for a passenger who might be on the next flight from New York.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They rowed endlessly up and down, staying to the deep water in the middle of the river and exchanging flights of arrows with Stannis's archers on the south shore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were three flights to climb to Miss Pat’s house. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way to a connecting flight and landed in Syracuse. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flight of herring clouds had moved over the sky from the south. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hated the thought of climbing the twelve flights of stairs, but he hadn’t taken the bottle of aspirin with him and he had to get it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She pulled into the airport parking and rushed inside, scanning the monitors for the next departing flight to Logan. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And, besides, they assumed that Powers died in the crash—taking with him the only evidence of the U-2 flight's real mission. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had offered to help her with her carry-on bag and, later, had asked the flight attendant if he could take the seat next to hers since it was vacant. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Down a flight of stairs, through a concealed side door and a second hidden corridor, there is a small room full of chairs and tablecloths and one old, abandoned tennis racquet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to limp up and down all those flights of stairs, dodging patrols?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Slowly, she manipulated herself down the long flights of stairs, two crutches under her left arm, the right hand grasping the banister. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They began to think about a helicopter to ferry them from Cange to Port-au-Prince, and then a special medevac flight straight to Boston. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We had come down the short flight of stairs, and she opened another door, standing aside for me to pass through, her dark eyes questing my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

More than once, I’ve come home from school to find her searching for cheap flights on her phone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

May 8: A US Navy seaplane begins the first transatlantic flight, making stops in Newfoundland and the Azores before touching ground in continental Europe in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 27. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“It might be cheaper to hire someone, when you figure in the cost of the flight.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ve even checked airports in nearby cities. There are no flights out of the area until this evening. I have plenty of seats on our seven o’clock flight if you’d like me to book you.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Pilots and navigators, many of them already experienced flight instructors, were all sure that the famous Marina Raskova might be able to influence the highest levels of government in a way that they could not. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane hasn't even taken off before I flag down the flight attendant, ask for something to drink. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He found himself booking a flight to Dulles International Airport. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In response it caws again and spreads its large wings, taking flight and swooping toward the stage, gaining speed as it approaches. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After she detailed her flight experience, he agreed and sent an invitation. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It takes her a long time to carry meals the five flights to Etienne’s room, wheezing the whole way. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Goddard computers also sent the flight controllers their projection of the remainder of the voyage. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We walk toward the emergency stairwell, and I crawl beneath the first flight so that we are hidden by the staircase. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They burned a lot of fuel, and they used castor oil, which leaked and splattered all over the cockpit after a few flights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The flight engineer says, “Eh?” in an astonished tone of voice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They have only ever traveled business class to Europe but have jobs that can’t even afford them a regular flight ticket. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every night the sky became for them a strange world of moonlit cloud, the ominous red light of aircraft flares, and too many aircraft for safe flight, all heading for the same target. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Arrivals Lounge was a press of love and eagerness, because the Bombay-Cochin flight was the flight that all the Foreign Returnees came home on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted it to be after, so he could have had that brief moment of escape, of sunlight, of pretended flight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bast nearly wept as he sensed the silence scatter like a dark bird startled into flight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But always, from the start to the finish, it was Bigger’s story, Bigger’s fear, Bigger’s flight, and Bigger’s fate that I tried to depict. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The moment the lock had clicked open, the key took flight again, looking very battered now that it had been caught twice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He transformed back into the great black dog and walked with Harry and Dumbledore out of the office, accompanying them down a flight of stairs to the hospital wing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We could also keep our brains and bodies accustomed to the rolls and turns of flight, although weightless space flight might feel different from flight in the atmosphere. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His short flight across the junkyard ended with a bone-shattering crash as the crane deposited the car on the iron shelves of the crusher. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“She was here,” Curie said, “but not anymore. She’s on her way to an Antarctic resort for some skiing. You might catch her flight if you hurry, though.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Alvarez was stunned to see his own flight helmet and uniform on display, clearly labeled with his name. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I remember him now, from that ferry flight in England. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In a press conference after the flight, Svetlana couldn’t hide her irritation at remarks made about women bringing a pleasant atmosphere to a space station. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the Mercury 7 project, men had to be military test pilots, each with at least 1,500 hours flight experience and a bachelor's degree in engineering. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“While sitting there on a bench, I noticed a large flight of aircraft approaching from the north- west.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night on the television news, Americans watched film from the Vietnam War: falling bombs, firefights, burning villages, the wounded on stretchers, and body bags loaded onto planes for the long flight home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She come down a flight of stairs to me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ill • He walked down the three flights of stairs, and rang the doorbell to 1 IF twice before using the keys to get in. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Our backyard was an ode to nesting and flight—part bird zoo and part art exhibit. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The flight engineer points to the empty fuel gauge, and makes a throat-cutting gesture with his finger. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Maneuver Loads Branch conducted research on the forces on an airplane as it moved out of stable, steady flight or tried to return to stable, steady flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Now the planned flight would have to cross parts of Siberia where it might already be snowing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had disembarked from his flight and was home in Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If I stepped in it, I could take flight, but I can’t stop running and that door slams closed too. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They put him in a taxi to the airport, and he boarded a Kenya Airways flight. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, too, that he was ashamed for stealing rice and clothing from poor North Koreans during his flight out of the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Today, our jet planes have made even the longest intercontinental flights briefer than the duration of any human infectious disease. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ornithologist David Sibley says that in Cape May, New Jersey, he once spotted a bird in flight from two hundred yards away and knew, instantly, that it was a ruff, a rare sandpiper. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She leads him along a spare white hallway and down a small flight of open stairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The banner streamed from an iron mast, shivering and twisting as the wind gusted, like a bird struggling to take flight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bobby started climbing the spiral staircase, up and up, four flights. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it was only a little off course, with that speed and time Brian might now be sitting several hundred miles off to the side of the recorded flight plan. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bissell and his engineers had taken care to leave no trace of the CIA's involvement in the flight. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I take a taxi back to the studio, climb the four flights of stairs, dimly lit as they are at night, resting on the landings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was nearly trampled by her children, whose flight out of the living room was a headlong sprint that left no time for explanations to anyone. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The educational room, where birds hang in staged flight. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I figured out how to save some money, and Annette fell down a flight of stairs. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A phaëton still stood, the traces at the ready, as if prepared for flight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I could check flight schedules and make a reservation by using Mr. Bow's office phone when I mopped his floors on the weekend. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A flight attendant rolls a cart down the aisle with what I guess is supposed to be lunch. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Who better suited for such work than an idle Special Operations flight officer? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Neither spoke of what had happened, neither mentioned the boy’s name, neither spoke of his flight, nor of the wound. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Creation of Éa, which is the oldest song, it is said, “Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

If she hurried, she could get to him before he boarded his flight to MIT. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He assented to flight, and we turned and fled in a disorderly rout. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

By that I mean that Apollos 9 and 10 must make near-perfect flights before us. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have him walking away in half-profile, from the back, from the side, his suit jacket unfurled, suggesting flight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summers morning, the sensations of a child standing at a window, the curve and dip of a swallows flight over a pool of water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He told me that everyone talked about John and the medevac flight. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

While she pulled the burrs from his coat, she scolded him for the recklessness of his flight. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Only, his mind takes flight along with the bird, thinking maybe, just this once, A. P. Brown’s Collection of North American Birds is wrong. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We still have 2 flights to go, but we are close enough to read the warning sign. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I already told you, Axel, when it comes to flight, the most important word that we can have, the one that bird moms know by heart.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On September 1, the pilot of a Soviet interceptor jet launched air-to-air missiles at Korean Air Lines flight 007, which Soviet ground crews had mistaken for a hostile military aircraft. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“How could this happen? Shouldn’t we have been notified that the flight was cancelled?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I didn’t doubt there was a flight to New York City leaving shortly. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

On her fourth flight of the day, Lilya and another pilot were returning from an escort mission when two German aircraft appeared from behind the clouds. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The butterflies and bees that had landed on the mirror took flight when it was overturned, but only a few of the winged creatures flew away. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As Ulape and I ran along the cliff a whirring sound like a great bird in flight passed above our heads. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I rode the elevator up three flights to the maternity ward and reported to the head nurse. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The First World War had ended before he completed his flight training, but he often wrote about combat pilots and aerial performers in his fiction. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To reach the Council chambers, she had to climb a lengthy, circular flight of stairs. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We say good night to Tío Ermenio and walk up the many flights of stairs to our rooftop shack in the middle of Old San Juan. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The flight engineer said, “Eh?” in an astonished tone of voice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As yet in the experimental stage, but nonetheless interesting, is the initial success in attracting male mosquitoes to playback recordings of the flight sound of the female. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Their flight was not until morning, but Dad said it was better to sleep on a bench than with the devil. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We were only a matter of hours now from our flight home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then Chas said, “Do you guys want to pull over and play Spin the Bottle, or should we just get to the airport in time to catch our flights?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At 01:41 and 48 seconds, the captain said, “Wiper on,” and the flight engineer turned them on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe he just tripped and sprawled down the short flight of steps, biting into his tongue so his mouth filled with blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The answer’s simple, thought Tendai, feeling a pleasant ache in his legs as he rested from the long climb up the well and the flight across Dead Man’s Vlei. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once he got to the edge of the yard, he lowered the shovel back behind him, counted to three, and flung as hard as he could, watching the swallow take its last flight. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But beyond the grubby clay-and-straw houses and the concrete official buildings that surrounded them in Engels, beyond the daily flights and mechanical drills, what was going on in the world? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Men, women and children...,” he later wrote, "were in flight from objects that had no existence except in their imaginations.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a framed print of the woods in winter and another of ducks in flight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His comment echoed the whole flight to Chicago. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In Highlands North the white never took flight. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When at last he came to the bottom of the last flight of steps, he found himself all but alone amongst the torchlit corridors inside the pyramid’s massive brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It took three or four flights before you could pick out the subtle shapes of the land when you were high in the sky in the middle of the night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Fischer canceled his flight to Iceland at the last minute, on the evening of June 25. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The flight was over, and I was ready to get out of that pressure suit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually they also made hazardous supply flights to the partisans, the guerrilla groups who were fighting against the Germans in the Bryansk Forest near the Russian border with Ukraine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In 1939 a Civilian Pilot Training Program began to offer sponsored flight instruction to young Americans. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I know about two hours into the flight home that I have to leave John. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

We descend, flight after flight, speechless, because no word could be heard above this sound. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Cora dozed again, the rigors of their flight still exacting their toll. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“After lunch, clean the five flights of stone stairs. I timed a boy who scrubbed one step and multiplied that time by the number of steps. You ought to be through at six.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to enjoy the flight, I want to enjoy the view and the soaring and the wind, I want to feel how easy it is breathing through a beak. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Next, a troop of jugglers with polished spheres of gold, which they hurl up high jn flashing flights, and catch, and hurl again, making' fountain-jets of bright jugglery. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And who are these people whose idea of decorating is matched pictures of mallard ducks in flight and whose house is perfectly characterless and pristine even before the model maid sets to work? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It moved with the speed of an arrow and grew as it came, converging swiftly with the flight of the four men towards the Gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

If Cora worried about one of the white people who worked on the twelfth floor questioning her when she got off the elevator, Martin told her, she could take the stairs for the final flights. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When they got back to their base, on the same day, they were assigned a training flight over the airfield. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I could now give media interviews during flights, get my hair and makeup done en route to an event, or bring Sasha and Malia along with me at no extra cost. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For all he knew, those darts had broken during the flight of the Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Lawrence drove to the airport for a flight home to Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He removed the flight jacket and covered Toomer’s wound with it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Must it be so? This flight was great folly, but will you not be merciful? These are your foster brothers we seek." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A wall, a flight of stairs, an open road. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The KGB pressed Powers about every detail of his mission, from the technical capabilities of the U-2 to the altitude of his flight and the identities of his fellow pilots. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They walked under sculptures of open books dangling from wires like birds in flight and soon found themselves in front of City Lights. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Those who have taken flight are disappearing into the trees or into the void opposite me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was plunging down the next flight before his body struck the ground. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sally went behind that old blue pickup to kiss the boys and get her keys back, and I ran up three flights of stairs to where Tito lived. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

So desperate was his flight that he had dropped his sword and not bothered to retrieve it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Far above Mossflower ground in the upmost terraces of foliage, the champion squirrel turned her flight in the direction of Redwall Abbey. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Back into an enclosure: It’s in such a different circumstance this time, but memories return of my flight from the UN peacekeepers so many years ago. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She always chooses the most bizarre reading material for flights. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As he went up the second flight of stairs, he saw Hooper, standing in his own doorway, watching. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

From Orlando, there’s a flight to everywhere leaving shortly. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had been thinking of those guardsmen during his flight, trying to recall how many there had been. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Can you take your seat, please?” asked the flight attendant. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The poor creatures perched on the bottom barely moving, obviously pining away for flight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they walked along she told them stories of her own first flight, she kept painting vivid word pictures of what it would be like to be free. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not right,” said Petunia, but her eyes had followed the flower’s flight to the ground and lingered upon it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On the flight home, twenty thousand feet above clouds that were ten thousand feet above the ground, Gus said, “I used to think it would be fun to live on a cloud.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He fled the airline terminal and missed the flight. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She puffs all the way up the four flights. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

By the time Fischer was notified of the new arrangement, he’d already made reservations on all three flights going back to New York on the day of the third game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So engrossed he was with the flight of the geese that he did not hear Bill’s footsteps until his brother was quite near. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just use me and then put me on the next flight out. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was here the ravens came, after long flight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was tired from our flight, and my memories of that morning are hazy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Over several cross-country flights, Ellsberg carried portions of the Pentagon Papers from Washington to Los Angeles in his briefcase. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Modeling flight at transonic speeds was a particularly knotty problem, because of the subsonic and supersonic winds that passed over the plane or model simultaneously. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

So in 1954, in the month of June, the planes visited the forests of the Northwest Miramichi and white clouds of settling mist marked the crisscross pattern of their flight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She knew the pigeons and their flight patterns especially well. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sierra went up another flight and knocked lightly on the wooden door. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Their flight last night had been wild and at random. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t a pegasus have to make it down two flights of stairs?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She would take the photo herself, in the haunted light of early evening, and hope to catch the male peacock in flight. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A short guy wearing what I thought was a flight suit came over to us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am no spirit,” I assured him, and Sumac took off in flight, as if to show he was separate from me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When Angel and Gerald helped the weakened Monique walk up the six flights of steps, they found Jordan half asleep on the living room couch. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she held on, taking huge gulps of air, tensing her muscles, priming them for flight. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For the first two years of the program, one in ten of these flight students was a woman. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He reached out his arm, slowly, slowly...a foot away...but his will must’ve gotten crossed up in the tall grass, because instead of the bird coming his way, it took flight. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Continue the flight to what is now the U.S. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could feel it calculating a flight pattern. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a night flight and Bull Meecham had flown from Ravenel to Key West, an out and in flight that would satisfy the requirement of four hours night flying a month. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes led his visitor down the stairs to the first floor and from there down another, darker flight to the basement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get those papers made for you and let you off the leash a bit while you wait for the next flight out.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The scythe could displace a passenger, forcing them to take a different seat, or even a different flight if there were no other available seats. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

While weather couldn’t entirely be controlled, it was easily diverted away from airports and out of flight paths. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours she was picked up and was on board a flight to San Francisco, courtesy of the American Consulate General. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They walked up a flight of stone steps and crowded around the huge, oak front door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later, pilots always resorted to their hands when discussing the mysteries and secrets of flight. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves early the next morning, boarding the first flight he can get. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked to the car, Walter raised his arms and gently moved them up and down as if he meant to take flight. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I boarded the flight, and in the next seat there was an American man. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a three-day flight, but it was jam-packed with fascinating things to do. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to be with her that weekend in Arizona, but I was struggling so hard to breathe the night before our flight that I had to stay behind. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

On the highest rampart of the fortress was a tower of adamant: just one flight of steps up to a set of rooms whose windows looked out north, south, east, and west. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I am still unbelievably sore—not from the crash but from holding the dratted plane in level flight all during that final hour. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A bird in flight reflected in an old dog’s balls. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s coming the day after tomorrow, in the afternoon. Do you have the flight number? Good. I’ll send someone to pick him up.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

At the top of the first flight was a closed door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t sleep at all on the flight to Tehran. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Good night, sweet Prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest . The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maiden test flights into nearby space a few months earlier had been successful, but because we’re now leaving so suddenly, this will be the first interstellar journey. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, when they’d flown back through the storm of antiaircraft fire and enemy fighter planes and were safely over Soviet territory again, Valentin let Klava take over to lead the flight home. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As Gerald ran down the six flights of steps, his fear expanded like a balloon in his chest. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the man from Ohio, who was squeezed next to her on a flight. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I remembered the remedy Ultima had given me after my frightful flight from the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down a long flight of steps the Lady went into the deep green hollow, through which ran murmuring the silver stream that issued from the fountain on the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We hear also of the punishment accorded them: The enemy has chained each white Loyalist to a black man taken in flight to Lord Dunmore and our Regiment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No one could say she wasn’t qualified for flight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Adding insult to injury, they also now had to have their flight skills checked by male pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He was on the same flight with us all the way to Puerto Rico. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A medevac flight was very rare, but expectations among patients would surely be raised. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They wondered why he never rang their doorbells, or climbed four flights of double-flight stairs to deliver anything to them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so we were defeated, and awaited our last, long flight and the end of our campaign. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There were horses rearing up and angels in flight in a summer-blue sky. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He is taken to the airport, boards a flight to Boston. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She showed up when your flight came in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Valentina quietly insisted that was not the case; she said something had been wrong with the flight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn, the sea-dawn and the mastery of ordered flight, were of such intense beauty that the boy was moved to sing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Bobby bounded up the three flights of stairs to the safety of his home, only to find it empty. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred seventy flights transported 19,000 troops from the United States to Western Europe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The street took a sharp turn and then ended in a flight of steps which led down into a sunken alley where a few stallkeepers were selling tired-looking vegetables. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He’d checked the Virgin Atlantic flight schedule and knew a plane was leaving for London at midnight. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We walk down the long flight of stairs that leads to the underground GD space, our knees bouncing in unison with each step, and down the multicolored hallway. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” says the gate agent, not sounding sorry at all, “but as the last to purchase, I’m obliged to reschedule you to a later flight.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All the way down the three flights of stairs I wouldn’t believe it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A wind tunnel offered many of the research benefits of flight tests but without the danger. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Another flight arrival was announced and the father said, “Chere! It’s him? It’s him!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At peace with me and herself, she bobs her head as she follows the flight of a bird. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only direct flight from Greece, moreover, left in the middle of the night, and arrived at three a.m. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Then I took an old butter knife and my cane and hobbled down all three flights of stairs. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered the panic flight down the mountainside. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She looked inside their doorway at the endlessly long flight of stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once I was on my flight to Los Angeles to tape The Ellen DeGeneres Show, though, I forgot about my noble cause and started to feel more nervous excitement about meeting Ellen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But apart from my flight bag, all my British pilot’s gear had to be destroyed, helmet and parachute and all. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He does a whistling imitation of a ball in flight. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baty had tried to force the fusion experience into existence for itself—and then, when that fell through, it had engineered the killing of a variety of human beings...followed by the flight to Earth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My success as an unofficial agent for the SOE will cancel out my flight to France as an unofficial pilot for the RAF. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The animal noises in the dark forest, the branches snapping and singing, reminded her of their flight, and then of Lovey disappearing into the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Fifty yards along the crowded pavement there were spiked black railings flanking two flights of steps, one labeled GENTLEMEN, the other LADIES. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

One flight landed her in jail when she touched down in Ecuador with a military bomber meant for Peru. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

While the Wart sat still and admired the view, his friend proceeded to give him a lecture about flight in birds. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam Claire's guard tails me up each flight of palace steps. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On it, Elizebeth had noted the time her flight was leaving Chicago—hours earlier than the plane that had crashed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I went scampering down the corridor to the stairs and up one flight. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"Routine lessens risk," her father chimed in, scarfing his food because he had a flight to catch. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

After I ate, I took the back stairs down one flight to Mrs. Hauser’s apartment, which is right under ours. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The commuter flights that drone across Africa are often jammed with people, and this flight was probably full. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine out of ten households traded to survive.1 More and more North Koreans sneaked across the border into China for food, work, trade, and flight to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The engine of Polina’s Po-2 overheated on the longer flight, and she and her pilot were now going to have to make a crash landing, only a week before the end of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She was a flight commander in the all-male 135th Bomber Aviation Regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He wore a military pilot’s flight suit, with tiny bird’s wings fluttering on his helmet and his black leather boots. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Mitch," Teddy said to the flight controller, "what about the launch?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilots who gathered together wearing the old style flight jacket looked like a well-bred motorcycle gang. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the 588th’s airfield—about fifteen minutes’ flight away—there were only three small lights to guide the returning Po-2 down to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Ifemsco, see you, beautiful babe, even after a long flight,” she said, laughing, dismissing the compliment, playing at her old role of the girl who was not the pretty one. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All six of them now wore their flight space suits, in case they had to scramble for an emergency takeoff in the MAV. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the long flight back to Washington, D.C., he stood in the back of his windowless military airplane, arguing about the situation with Bob Komer, one of President Johnson’s aides on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As she balanced herself with wings, feet, and tail, she felt the new and wonderful sensation of flight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t eat again until after Mass on Sunday, and he used the twelve flights of stairs he climbed by Bri’s side to meditate on the twelve stations of the cross. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And the messy apartment I was sure to walk into; the flight numbers and so forth left deliberately, so it now seemed, by the phone; both were oversights unworthy of Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Permission for flight obtained from C.O. and I had made 4 successful night landings, 3 on simulated flare path, immed. previous to departure. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Why did you read the flight of the birds?” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we settled into our seats for a late-night flight to Paris, my stomach began to act up. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They saw, as they imagined, their enemies in flight, and they rushed after them in disorder. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

"Our next guest is Dr. Irene Shields, flight psychologist for the Ares missions. Dr. Shields, welcome to the program." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staying close to the floor, he snaked himself down the first flight of stairs, gently dragging the limp, unconscious body of Angel with him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even need my flight jacket anymore, which didn’t mean that I stopped wearing it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Swaddled in leaded clothing, they crossed to Gilman Hall and crab-walked up two flights of stairs to a vacated laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Rotund and slower in flight than the Vipertooth or the Longhorn, the Ironbelly is nevertheless extremely dangerous, capable of crushing dwellings on which it lands. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flight instinct conflicts with their mother’s training—they must stay by the den, where she can find them. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

We needed to find our connecting flight to Rochester, which was challenging because none of us spoke English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Liyana had only flown short flights to Kansas City and Chicago before. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

You reached it simply by jumping off the ground, like Superman taking flight, and then swimming through the air, into the spherical zero-g “groove zone.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t remember the salesman’s having mentioned anything about a flight feature. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We reached a flight of stairs and Fela turned to look at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The graduates then headed off to stateside service at bases like Maryland’s Naval Air Station Patuxent River, ground zero for the navy’s flight test activity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The midnight flight to Dragonstone, moonlight shimmering on the ship's black sails. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, unwilling to give up the elegance he had felt on the flight, he taxied from the airport to the bus station and settled himself for two idle hours before the Greyhound left. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The banister wobbled in place as we climbed one flight, then another. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those in the water were struggling to get out, forgetting in their haste to swim, wailing, walking, held back in their flight by the viscous, clinging sea as though by a biting wind. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Chronicler staggered back, crying out in alarm before he realized it was nothing more than a crow beating its wings into flight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bag is bulging and softening, threatening to leak, and he hands it to a flight attendant. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only after he had reached it did Taran see long flights of steps carved into the living rock. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Have a good flight. What time are you due in?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At any rate, this time Mr. Popper found himself suddenly sliding, on his own white-clad stomach, down the three flights of steps. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One flight going to Dubai had some kind of leak, so they landed in Iran first for repairs. Totally unscheduled.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Four walks up a flight of metal stairs leading through a hole in the ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Never had he had the chance to live out the consequences of his actions; never had his will been so free as in this night and day of fear and murder and flight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmin crawls down a steep flight of stairs to a tiny bodega below. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Taking flight, they flipped the mirror over, nearly sliding it off the chair in the process. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He was in his flight jacket and uniform. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bryan," he said at some point during our short flight, “capital punishment means 'them without the capital get the punishment.' We can't help people on death row without help from people like you." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I could see the girl's face still, below the short flight of stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken to flight as soon as the gun went off. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

On the early Gemini flights, we were worried about the machinery breaking, and so we decided it would be a good idea for one of the two men to be awake at all times. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were paid less than men doing the same job and received no benefits or pension; if one of their pilots was killed in flight, her companions chipped in to pay for the funeral themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Up to the threshold of the door there mounted a flight of twenty-seven broad stairs, hewn by some unknown art of the same black stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A bus took him and others fresh from Vietnam to the San Francisco airport, and they were told to find their own flights home. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She even convinced herself that it contained flight, but did not fly, because it did not want to show anyone what it really was. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the difference between knowing it and seeing them in person is the difference between dreaming of flying and flight. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The final flight of the Apollo series took place in 1975, when a command module made a rendezvous with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the first flight he looked back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The misery could not have been worse had they lost an engine in flight, as planes did back in the mortal days, when technology occasionally failed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She carried the gun to protect herself and had to use it once when, having climbed nine flights of stairs, she found some strangers playing cards at her kitchen table. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The lighthouse was only a quarter of an hour’s flight from the Charing-T Tower; but the hills of Malpais were hardly more deserted than this Surrey heath. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s on a flight, he adds, so she’ll be here when you get out of surgery. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But then the remaining flight attendant closed the door, and the look on her face was anything but reassuring. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A flight of sparrows dropped into the dust and scrabbled for bits of food and then flew off like a gray scarf twisting in the light. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After Apollo 17, the last flight to the moon, some of the Apollo hardware was used in earth orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dragged the body to the front of the plane, where the fire raged, and hoisted the flight attendant into it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The tidings were mostly sad and ominous: of gathering darkness, the wars of Men, and the flight of the Elves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That’s really all I think of when Dad crosses my mind these days—the junky stuff he brings home for us and the work he’s always preoccupied with between flights. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 01:42 and 22 seconds, the flight engineer said again, “Go around.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Threatened by all kinds of dangers during their foraging flights, many workers die before they have reached even that age. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lorren led me into another stone building, through a hallway, and down a flight of stairs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just before dark, they began skimming across the water, their short, winglike fins taking them on flights of twenty or thirty feet, sometimes more. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led the way down a flight of stairs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And then he was looking up, turning, following the flight of the ball, which finally came down to earth in deep left center field and bounced once to the fence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

An overhead projector beamed a movie onto dummy number two, turning it into a perky woman who looked like a flight attendant. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

If I had, she would have booked herself on the next flight to Pakistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A little over a year after his flight above the Gulf of Tonkin on the night it all began, Commander James Stockdale was shot down. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He described the conditions there as “so severe that I could not even think of the possibility” of flight. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Aimee’s mother hadn’t been able to get a flight home to Los Angeles until that Friday, and when she did, she said it was like entering a military zone. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

At last, I stood at the bottom of the once grand flight of stairs that led to the upper floors. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her flight stopped first in Lagos, and as she sat waiting in the lounge a tall, thin woman hurried past. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A bird suddenly erupted in front of him, a ball of brown feathers that spun around on itself before taking flight. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Marina, following in Aleksandr’s footsteps, now began pushing the limits of long-distance flight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The chill in my veins didn’t return, but halfway up the first flight, I stopped and looked back the way we’d come. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The engineers estimated that the upcoming orbital flight, including the fully manned global tracking network, required a team of eighteen thousand people. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I always draw her with arms up like she’s about to take flight or with her hands together like she’s praying. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I got a flight plan out of Norvelt tonight for Florida.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Like a Bollywood flight attendant, she used two fingers on each hand to indicate the location of the exits — forward, back, over the wings. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I had booked a flight on my dad’s credit card. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This meant that I would be going to Iowa almost weekly, catching early-morning United Airlines flights out of O'Hare, making three or four campaign stops in a day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I rushed to his side and tried to describe my unexpected flight in the sky world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Since today is all about flights of fancy and fancy flights, our next contest is to see which of you would make the paleontologically perfect prehistoric pterodactyl.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

To Western ears, it seems strange that the flight engineer would bring up this subject just once. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Of course, being the first lunar-landing flight made Apollo 11 different in a number of ways. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember a British Airways flight was going into New York. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“If we follow this way,” he added, pointing in the direction of the bird’s flight, “I’m sure we’ll come directly to Morva.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I received a telegram with her flight information; my brother’s house in Calcutta had no telephone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Valentin would make Valya look around for the rest of his squadron while he flew, often thinking harder about his flight crews than about the enemy targets. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Wait, Leo. Can a satellite show me the flight path from New York to California?” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“A car? But—wait—when’s the flight? What airline? How much time do I have to...” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We took Katz to National Airport in Washington, where he was booked on a late afternoon flight to Des Moines. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We ll soon be there,” he announced happily, after one of his short flights. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ground crews worked just as hard as the flight crews. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The tips of her flight feathers had grown in, and she could stand and walk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I considered the offer seriously—I went so far as to book a flight and get the required immunizations—and then bowed out at the last minute. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s a ferry flight,” she said, “I can authorize it myself. Let me use the telephone.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They parked on Bagley, took deep breaths, and climbed a flight of concrete steps to the front porch, holding hands. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He went back and pulled Sammy up, holding his elbow, and they resumed their headlong flight away from the parked car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. Just a brief flight of fancy, my mind sailing off past the phantom tollbooth. So, which lifeline would you like to use?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, that metaphor is prohibited on today’s flight,” she said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There’s radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries out, “Flameout on engine number four!” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There was a third plane taking off with them, taking advantage of the moon, but not technically operational—a new squadron member doing his first cross-country training flight to France. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

On our second flight, I feel much calmer. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m finished. There’s nothing else to do. I’m taking the first flight back tomorrow.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On our flight to Moscow, Farmer told me that the World Bank was planning to make a loan to Russia to help prevent a full-blown TB epidemic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But as they neared the Great Hall and the sounds of a waltz could be heard, a swarm of bees took flight in her stomach. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It was a long flight. Could I have a glass of water?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how long I had been concerned with the hawks free flight. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing would go wrong in flight, we hoped, but if it did, the simulator should have prepared them well to do the right thing in any emergency. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never was any dog more heartened when its enemy turned tail than Sam at this unexpected flight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In one thematic string we have terms like criminals, criminal warfare, crime, fun, profit, gangs, mafias, thugs, mercenaries, troublemakers, preys on the weak, executioners, violence, desertion, flight, whim, opportunity, and run. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Between flight cancellations and Farmer suddenly changing his mind about where he was going and for how long, his travel constant monitoring—a task that fell on the shoulders of his brand-new assistant at PIH. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But the women who’d made the record-breaking flight in the Rodina weren’t just dazzling celebrities: they were also safe role models. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One second later, the flight engineer said, “Not in sight.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She walked down the hall and down the four flights of steps. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Newton’s God did not direct individual arrows to their targets; he established the laws that determined the flight of each and every arrow. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His standard showed a crow in flight, its black wings spread wide against a storm-green sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was one of three women recruited and trained for an all-female flight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after John Mayer put on the Space Task Group jersey, Carl Huss and Ted Skopinski followed suit, making Katherine the natural inheritor of the research report that would describe Project Mercury’s orbital flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Among Korean Air flight crews, the expectation on layovers used to be that the junior officers would attend to the captain to the point of making him dinner or purchasing him gifts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Aurora and Ares fluttered along next, making short, silent flights. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In later years, she told the story of the flight many times—always with a shiver in the telling and a sense of wonder at her own survival. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Only once, when their connecting flight in London was delayed, did they leave Heathrow and take a double-decker bus tour of the city. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The spectators were ringed around the rotunda, eagerly anticipating the paper aircraft taking flight. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The children were dressed in their Sunday best, and I, in a flight of patriotism, had tied a red, white, and blue ribbon to my best hat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I remember one time there was a competition between three different types of pressure suit, to see which one would be selected for the Apollo flights. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dad was a big man, and he swooped Ivy into his arms, balancing her on his hip down the next flight of stairs. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Skirting a small lake, they had stared to see a great gray fisher bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge, until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months after the flight that earned her the Order of Lenin, the fateful wind behind her would make her an international celebrity. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He went down five flights of stairs to G deck and practically skipped along the long hallway toward the front of the ship. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was, as it happened, a very windy day when Auk XXII-D made its flight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had a few hours before their flight home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

However, in American tournaments, where hotel ballrooms are rented and contracted for a specified period and players have made arrangements for flights home, it’s necessary to apply a tie-breaking system to determine the winner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The agony of those wheels on the drive, of that pealing bell, of my own first wild rush for flight to my own room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The picture was a nightmare, condensed, easily passed from hand to hand, in the forest, all whirring colour and flight. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later all five of them were in full flight down the cart-track that led to the main road, with the animals pursuing them in triumph. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I run; Carlos follows, tripping up flights of stairs. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I clasp the steering wheel, afraid it will take flight. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

After that there were special flights that came regularly, but not frequently. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I would take a packed flight back to Chicago, drive along a busy highway, ride an elevator up to my office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And only seconds later, it seemed, they could hear the rush of flight, the whiz of arrows, and the grunt and scream of voices raised in pain or anger or command. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Again. The flight of the blade was unsteady last time. Be centered in your body when you throw it.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They look up, and see a blur of color and affrighted movement as a flock of birds takes flight, disturbing the leaves. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She took Raymie s hand and led her up a flight of stairs and into a room where the floor was polished and shining so brightly that it didn’t look like a floor at all. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

That research, and other investigations like it, led to changes in air traffic regulations, mandating minimum distances between flight paths so as to prevent that kind of wake turbulence accident. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

By then a second flight was on its way, and arrows were falling as well, hissing down from the archers' nests that studded the towers above. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The coin dropped from his hand to the stairwell with a clatter and bounced down half a flight of stairs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We thanked the woman and hightailed it out of there, eager to make our flight back to the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

With a sinking heart, I watched as Barack jumped into action, rebooking our flights to leave the following day, pulling the plug on our vacation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Shadow and Jacquel wheeled the loaded gurney to the narrow flight of stairs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Katya died like a true Soviet fighter pilot, first filling an enemy fighter with bullets before using expert flight techniques to put out the flames that were engulfing her own plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Fighting had not before occurred to any of them as one of the adventures in which their flight would land them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As their flight feathers appeared, their white down disappeared. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I said while trying not to run down the last flight of stairs. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Nan bought us new pajamas and laid them out on our beds for when we arrived, tired from the long flight and the drive up from London. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Richard was not sure how long they had waited before boarding their flight at Lisbon, but the wait at São Tomé for a relief flight to Biafra had stretched to seventeen hours. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eastern Standard Time, is the best time to find affordable airfare for international flights. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I mean, they do say our every action and inaction is related to some primordial fight or flight hardwiring.... Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The apartment is barely heated, minuscule, at the top of six steep flights of stairs, with a bathroom the size of a phone booth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Galya stopped talking—which was easy to do when she was busy juggling maps and pencils and the flight log—Masha would scold her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My first flight by myself was a little bit scary, but I found I really enjoyed being up there all alone with no one yelling at me. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two diagonals of the words “tres important” and “faire suivre” meet on the envelope at a point, an arrowhead—giving an impression of flight, purpose, urgency—or an impending wound. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Kaz heaved a sigh as he braced himself for three painful flights of stairs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then we pretended to walk up a flight of stairs, to indicate that we had entered the factory. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d just landed a jumbo jet at Kennedy Airport after a long flight from Dubai. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As I peeled back the film from the bowl, I felt a little like a flight attendant serving meals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was the first of our group of fourteen to be assigned to a flight crew. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom is already halfway up the second flight as Ermenio walks along the second floor. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I run to the nearest open door and close it, my heart hammering like it’s fled down hundreds of flights of stairs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“My shoes. Black Chuck Taylor All Stars. They bestow their wearer with both speed and flight.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear gave a loud snort, and the raven took flight, flapping in a circle about the room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He dressed quickly, wrote a note for his sisters saying he was going out to see how conditions were, then walked down the twelve flights of stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

For the second time in our relationship, as a kind of closing frame to our first meeting which had ended in my flight out of the classroom, I fled up the stairs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Even Warbeak was beginning to feel the effects of prolonged low nighttime fluttering, through the woodlands, around trees, over bushes; it was not the same as a clear, clean flight through the upper atmosphere. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Not having it, she dried her eyes on her petticoat and walked up the last flight slowly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sloop’s crew assayed flight in their longboat, but they were overtaken. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She remembered how, after their flight from the sheds where Capricorn had held them captive, she had stumbled toward Elinor's car, and the man had shot at them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I saw that what had been taken for our emotional strength was our negative confusions, our flights, our fears, our frenzy under pressure. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assuming we didn’t crash en route, the flight would trim some three weeks from the span of Hombein’s trek. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The staircase led so far down that by the time it reached a level floor, the sky behind them at the head of the flight was quite invisible. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

What if the computer lost power or seized up and stopped working during the flight? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I booked our flight to Los Angeles for first thing Saturday morning,” he said in his most somber voice. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was funny, I thought, as I shot up the last flight of stairs, but I’d had a premonition they’d be on the top floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The three of them trooped to the back of the restaurant where the maître d' had directed, and down a narrow flight of stairs, lit gloomily by little lamps hung in archways. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The excitement of my flight had blown away any thoughts of ending my studies with the shaman. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

For an instant, with her power of flight still working, we tumble in place as she tries to shake me off. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Long flights of stairs led to front doors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ghostly, curving tracks swept over the rink like the flights of birds. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The big story was about America’s new hero, an aviator named Charles Lindbergh who had just made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After one of my meetings, I went back to Reagan National Airport to meet Barack, who was due in on a chartered flight from Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There’s no fight or even flight left in him now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In 2002, she fell down a flight of stairs and was paralyzed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A new long-distance flight record in a Soviet plane would make a fine political statement to the Germans: our long-range bombers won’t have any trouble reaching Greater Germany if war breaks out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Now I just had to get assigned to a space flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the fourth place, it wasn’t a long flight at all. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The effects of smoking on the body are becoming well known, but the effects of space flight were largely unknown in 1965. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I honor his courage, his career, his achievement, his sense of duty, his love of flight, and his love of the Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laboratory also possessed the best flight research engineers, who worked closely with test pilots, sometimes as passengers in the vehicle itself, to capture data from planes in free flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks are flushed from the walk up three flights of stairs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He laughed with real enjoyment, as a child laughs at a good lie, encouraging further flights. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I whip back around, arrow poised for flight, but what can be done? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I think such flights are a good idea. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man who worked as a tailor at Marx & Haas tried to use the elevator instead of walking up six flights of stairs to the workroom floor. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

We all got in our flight space suits and huddled in the middle of the Hab, just in case it lost pressure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the flight from us that sent them sprawling into the subdivided woods. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“We must get to Washington. Isn’t there another flight— perhaps on another airline?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was Ron Evans, an astronaut who would later fly to the moon on the final Apollo flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grappling hooks were flung out, iron rams crashed through wooden hulls, boarders swarmed, flights of arrows whispered through each other in the drifting smoke, and men died . . . but so far, none of his. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The strange-looking man flew with an aggressive impatience, dropping like a rock to cut between flight lanes, banking as steeply as a hoverboard with every turn. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On their way up the fourth flight, voices and boot steps suddenly burst into the stairwell. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He sensed the rapid flight of her hidden thoughts: the transitions showed on her frowning, tense face. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was ready to throw her plane into a sideslip if a searchlight caught her, a flight maneuver that allows you to dive very fast and steeply without spinning. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Pilots all filed flight plans—a detailed plan for where and when they were going to fly, with all the courses explained. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were not peanuts handed out on his recent flight but something acquired years earlier, back when all planes had propellers and pilots wore leather helmets and long, flowing scarves. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, there were plenty of other astronauts waiting to get their first flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know the game and I lost three balls in as many minutes; it seemed that my eyes could not trace the flight of the balls. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment I purchased my flight, it would be on my dad’s credit card balance. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“There are no other flights to D.C. on any other carrier, sir, nonstop or otherwise. That weather system has grounded everything. There will be nothing until later this evening. I’m so sorry,” she whispers. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I made the flight at a very low altitude, following the railroad tracks,” said pilot Zoya Parfyonova, who managed to find the right place. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

With the flight of the Loyalists onto ships, royal power in this execrable Colony is restricted into still more minute compass. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But it was still hard to force myself on board the flight. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bit of a shock, then, when Fang jeopardized our fragile flight pattern by leaning forward and slapping a picture against my left cheek. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

To the flight attendant and to the crying baby whose ears hurt. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The noon flight?” the woman replies with a frown. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Flying in an open cockpit with the wind continually pounding against them, they immediately encountered dense fog that stayed with them for almost their entire flight. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

That news, which broke in January 1939, launched physicists upon flights of learned speculation about the enormous energy released when the uranium nucleus split following its absorption of a stray neutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In a far corner behind the weight area, at the bottom of a small flight of stairs, a regular group of inmates practiced some kind of martial art. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig, to everyone’s surprise, showed considerable reluctance, and only crossed in the end after Kehaar, returning from another flight over Efrafa, had asked whether he would like him to go and fetch a fox. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

How on earth could she make that 3:40 p.m. flight? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Alice and Jasper spent a long time looking at the departing flights board. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Frightful followed his flight with her keen eyes until he disappeared in a cloud. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The house is dark, but there are tiny dim lights all over that are enough for us to tiptoe our way up two flights of stairs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But something was missing in my imaginative efforts; my flights of imagination were too subjective, too lacking in reference to social action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had decided to go to the airport and board the next flight to Boston when Tyler called. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She climbed five flights of red stairs for Baby Kochamma’s one. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Guys," Bruce said, "I need to catch a flight back to LA in three hours. Is Teddy coming or what?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made her first solo flight, in the sky on her own, when she was fifteen years old. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

An unaccountable serenity had stolen upon me; I felt the operations of my wits as clean and mechanical, aiming only at that which needed to transpire: the flight at the appointed time across the mud. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our flight didn’t leave until noon, but Mom woke me up at five thirty, turning on the light and shouting, “AMSTERDAM!” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The black-and-white picture was of a man who looked almost exactly like Miles, one eyebrow quirked up, wearing a black flight jacket and standing next to a WWII-era fighter plane. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he flaps his wings as if he nearly remembers flight, as he did in the first jubilant terror of his release. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within every circle, carved and then inlaid with great skill, there is a crane in graceful flight. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was not until a few years later, when they flew their flying machine in another demon land—France, I think—that demons accepted flight as a fact. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no doubt in her mind what that steady flight meant—the migration was on. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing incriminating or interesting in any of his data either, other than a few texts about flight arrival and departure times. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Powers had been up since two AM, undergoing medical tests, scarfing down a huge breakfast, and cramming himself into his uncomfortable, pressurized flight suit. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Bernabe figured it was in possession of all its faculties, including that of flight, he threw it up in the air, expecting that it would take off. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead of you is a steep flight of stairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Because our flight to Cuba wasn’t until the next morning, we stayed overnight at the airport hotel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then the flights got longer, until finally Cooper stayed up nearly a day and a half, with no apparent ill effects. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a few flights up. No elevator. Sorry.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The former Marine was the first pilot to average supersonic speeds in a transcontinental flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Tío Ermenio pauses and appears to get lost in his thoughts before he takes off again up another flight of stairs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth's good company and the sizzle of Mr. Darcy make the eight-hour flight across the Atlantic go by in a flash. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We continued across the foyer to a dreamlike bank of windows, turned left up a pale flight of marble steps, left again, through two doorways, and into the Assembly Room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with a guard holding him on each side, he was marched out of the room and up a flight of stairs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

One evening, hurrying around before catching his flight to Haiti, Farmer stepped off a curb and was struck by a car. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Get Captain Brannon to my office pronto. He’s out on the flight line. And pass the word that there’ll be a meeting of all officers in the ready room at 1500 hours.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the pride Americans had felt in the Big Science that had won World War II was draining away at the spectacle of multimillion-dollar rockets exploding in flight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Inside Ben stared at an old leather flight jacket with a warm fur collar and the patch of the Red Cobra Squadron on the sleeve. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains also create wind shear, which is when the wind suddenly changes direction, another deadly hazard to flight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Three young peregrines had survived their first flights. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Months before our flight, scientists had picked a landing spot that looked nice and smooth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went up three flights of ancient stairway to Miss Harris’s room slowly, so that Trotter would not collapse. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wish I could take Jason to Elliot’s Antiques and show him all the bottles and old things, but there is a long flight of stairs, and the aisles are too narrow for a wheelchair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such an image, even without the addition of flight, will not do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bull excused himself from Cecil’s embrace long enough to send the captain directly over an indistinguishable pile of flight jackets with a backhand across the mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him up a flight of steps and he unlocked the door of the office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about this time, however, the whole series of planned Apollo flights was rearranged. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven p.m., the captain, his first officer, and the flight engineer met and collected the trip’s paperwork. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I were stupidly sticking my head out the window of an airplane in flight. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They made him look as if his head were about to take flight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If the potato was symbolic of the Meecham family’s flight from Ireland, then the freight train was the lucky talisman of their redemption in the new world. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like every time he went for wood, which was every morning, he spent the whole time jumping and jerking in flight as he walked. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went down the stairs one flight to the fourth floor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Frank and Jim had a very nice flight, and stayed up the entire two weeks, just as planned. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been replaced by a nylon, light-weight flight jacket that was bled of glamour or romance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry said, so loudly that several owls in a nearby tree took flight in alarm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stand to see the hatrack in the front hall and the long flight of stairs he had climbed so many times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Margaret prayed to God for deliverance, promised an end to the wickedness and moral shortcomings she had expressed in her flight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Over the next few weeks, Air Force planes made flight after flight, carrying Americans and “at risk” South Vietnamese out of the country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She must have taken an early flight from DC and gone from the airport straight to city hall! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Several of the more heroic forcibly checked their flight, hid behind trees, and hurled their spears at the tiger, but they were so unnerved by his furious assault that they missed their aim. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Within days, she and her dentist husband have booked a flight to Maine for early June. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The flight was too bumpy and she hadn’t forgotten it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They walked under sculptures of open books dangling from wires like birds in flight and soon found themselves in front of City Lights. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She felt like a whole colony of bats had taken flight in her belly. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Though each comer in the corridor, each flight of steps, brought with it the possibility of new dangers, the children carried on. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Our flight’s not until 7 A.M. and I have a detour I want to make. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven a.m., she shuttled to the airport and checked her bags for the night flight to London, business class. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were huge boxes attached to the windows, which contained make-believe stars and spacecraft, so that when we looked out the windows we would see what we would see in flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years we all had known that space flight was dangerous, and could actually kill someone, but now it had happened—and on the ground, at that. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, "'I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.'" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The old man couldn’t get through a day, the bird through a flight, Howie through a shift at work. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Davis darted up a flight of floating marble stairs, leaving me alone with Noah—or so I thought—until a woman I hadn’t seen called out, “That’s a real Picasso.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Papa pulled in front and Francie and Neeley pushed in back and they began forcing the big tree up the three narrow flights of stairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

An albatross, with its effortless flight, also seemed like a good idea, except a lack of water might impede her ability to take off and land. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, this flight was okay, and the food was good, even though we didn’t really know what went with what. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the arrival board, watching as flight after flight arrived on time. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Record-setting flights were a good way to rally national support for aviation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then there was the stewardess in her smart blue uniform and jaunty hat, with the microphone in her hand, announcing Lily’s flight and that the passengers could board the plane. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

One by one they flapped their wings and took flight, soaring above us, cursing our names and threatening to take their revenge. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Buzz was checking with our computer, which indicated we were on the right flight path. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know full well that the thing I can’t stop thinking about is literally down the hall, through two doors, and up a flight of stairs. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She tipped, spread her flight feathers like fingers, and braced herself against two wires. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He followed her out of the room, along a corridor and down a flight of stairs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The flight attendant tells me to put my glasses on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I moved, feeling something slip and was halfway down the next flight before realizing that my brief case was gone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear you think I’m a flight risk,” Mom says. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Or, “Before the day I boarded the flight to America, I had never been on a plane. Never been so far from home. Never been so close to the sun.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When clouds and snow squalls made a flight impossible, Ngawang was loaded into a basket and, under Hunt’s care, carried down the glacier to Pheriche on the backs of Sherpas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not my flight officer and you don’t have any gunnery authority.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

However, if the cops show up they are given to flight. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She thought back on their flight from him on the road. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Surprised, Peanut hesitated, then broke for his basket, not noticing that Ben trailed him and not noticing that a flight jacketed figure trailed Ben on the sidelines. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t forget our flight is at noon, Michael.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She hurried back and climbed the four flights to the weaving room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor had to help his dad up a long flight of stairs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mynah was perfectly capable of flight now. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not thinking of any extraordinary flights. I only half comprehend her.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Harry, Hermi- one, and Ginny followed Ron up three more flights of stairs, shouts from the kitchen below echoed up to them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They started up a flight of wide, marble steps that shone softly in the darkening air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cabarets plywood-paneled walls are hung with deer antlers, Old Milwaukee beer promos, and mawkish paintings of game birds taking flight. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went along a broad, carpeted passage, and then turned left, through an oak door, and down a narrow flight of stairs and up a corresponding flight, and so to another door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A single woodpecker can transfer a billion spores on one flight between trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I went down two flights of stairs, and the scent of pancakes drifted from a door on the right. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The thing was, I had gotten plenty of rest on the flight over from the States and had a good night’s sleep the night before. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Over Gilboa, she braked by pulling down on her secondary flight feathers and tail. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“In Bono’s catalogue, I saw devices ... the ones which hobble the legs ... so flight is impossible ” “I wish you had not seen that.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another short flight of steps led to a door just like the one hidden behind Ariana’s portrait. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I imagine getting on a flight back to New York, returning to my old life while some other hunter catches Zero. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He then climbed the broad, shallow, carpeted steps up to Main Deck, one flight up. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Still, her own cigarettes were two flights up, in one of several possible pockets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, ma’am, but that flight has been cancelled. We’ve had loads of cancellations today—a late-winter snowstorm in the Northeast has caused backups all over.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The 46th Guards made supply flights in daylight as well as at night, in aircraft fitted with skis instead of wheels. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A bunch of mallards, feeding in the shallows across the river, took flight with frightened quacks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no need to hunt the thing down, to track it, nor would its flight avail it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was smaller than Matthias and did not have the advantage of flight like the sparrow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Forty seconds on a six and a half hour flight. Not so bad,” Lenina conceded. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins pulled the perambulator up with a jerk, in case Andrew, in his wild flight, should upset it and the Twins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Some of the women were crying loudly, and the men were standing in angry groups, with all their daemons agitated and rising in nervous flight or snarling at shadows. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Alex was startled at how much energy it took simply to walk down a flight of stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I caught an early flight. Couldn’t wait to see my family,” Dad explains, taking the pizza from me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I caught a flight to New York, and once I landed I caught a taxi to the Chelsea Hotel. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ben grew aware of the flight jacket again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flight attendant greeted the elegy of scythes, and then the second they were past her, she turned, left the plane, and ran down the jetway. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Though worn out from my flight, my close escape, not to mention my churning emotions, I could not rest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The maid led Nok into the house and up a short flight of steps to the second level. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Plainly skeptical but unwilling to engage in a colloquy with a wheedling Teller, Fermi pleaded that he was too tired from the flight to give him a hearing, much less a commitment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My thoughts linger on the flight attendant’s words—until I turn to look at the inside of the jet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The voice just asked me what time my flight was and then told me what time I should be picked up. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s flight out had been cancelled, and they’d spent the whole day inside, snuggled together on the couch. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Today,” announced Mr. Lemoncello, “in our third and fourth games, you will use the library to help your imagination take flight, much as I am about to do.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I remember the flight attendant, walking the aisle, pointing at emergency exit doors. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her feathers are flattened to her body, her eyes wide, neck stretched, and her wings are lowered for flight. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks prior to his scheduled flight to London, he was notified that he would not get a passport. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

A top smuggler will bring a child by commercial flight for $10,000. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Their nonstop flight would last more than twenty-four hours. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Before he goes to bed, Volkheimer descends three flights of stairs to the atrium to check his mail. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It flew abnormally high, at great cost of fuel, to ensure a smoother flight. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leads me down the stairwell, two flights down, until we enter the basement where execution rooms, electric grids, and storage chambers line the halls. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A fellow pilot draped his flight jacket over the U-2's cockpit window, trying to give Powers some relief as the unmarked black aircraft baked in the sun on an airstrip near Peshawar, Pakistan. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pilots and navigators of the 587th kept a long-running volleyball competition going whenever they got a free moment, with the two flight squadrons making up their opposing teams. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I shall have to get ready. But you can stay a little longer. The men have to bring the thing down two flights of stairs. Marie-Claude will see they don’t damage it.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaira led them up a flight of stairs, then through a door and into the backstage area. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She took a flight back to Connecticut, went to the hotel, and personally searched the laundry room until she found it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

We finally get to a door at the top of the final flight of stairs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The flight attendant brought wet paper towels and tried to wipe me clean, but even when the dress was clean, it still smelled awful. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was serendipity that called her in the countdown to John Glenn’s flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mom was worried I might have difficulties getting to the bathrooms, which were up a long flight of stairs from the grade-one classrooms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

If any of the flight crew were going to survive, Valentina would have to land there. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t they magnificent? Thirteen has been studying their aerodynamics here for years. Forward and backward flight, and speeds up to sixty miles per hour. If only I could build you wings like these, Katniss!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I wonder if my mother is waiting for her flight to Detroit and praying that I don’t worry about her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We get off, find a stairwell, and walk up one flight and straight into a locked gray door with a no roof access sign. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fifteen-hour flight would be just the beginning of a much larger journey. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Einstein stated that if a number of people watch the same phenomenon—say, the flight of a raven toward a tree, the laws of physics are the same for each observer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I am learning the Language of the World, and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me . . . even the flight of the hawks,” he said to himself. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he was under the ground because he had been carried, in his cage, down a long flight of steps into dimness and coldness. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even so, all the agent does is apologize, and look for later flights. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The word was out that either we were going to have a great flight or we were going to blow the hell out of Cape Coalwood, just as we had Elsie’s hot-water heater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he leads me down a short flight of stairs, and I realize we’re in what must be his and Willem’s apartment. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 2004, while carrying one up a flight of stairs on his back, it slipped from his grasp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He wore his flight jacket and gazed down the hill at the station wagon where his children jockeyed for position in the back seat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Should Russia use the relatively simple and completely proven process of refueling in flight," he observed, "she would now have the capacity to deliver the bomb" into the American homeland. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some species are nervous, fast, and programmed for instant flight when they perceive a threat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She gave him an impression of restlessness, as though she might take flight at any moment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without warning, they take flight, and I realize that the man is Will. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had arrived on a Pan- American Airlines flight at 4:30. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie looked up and saw her mother running down that last flight of stairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In through swinging doors I reached a marble foyer, and stopped at the foot of a long white marble flight of stairs. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My flight path carried me in a great sweeping arc around and behind the Gemini. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a half-remembrance of this episode, along with myriad other humiliations, defeats, and emasculations, could stir him into flights of depravity that surprised himself—but only himself. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was but one event in the sky, about noontime: a flight of geese. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There is no purpose in recalling what then transpired, our long flight, our final defeats. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The rest of the short flight was accomplished in silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through the showers and, instead of continuing to the holding area, turned down a tight flight of stairs and the long dark hall that led to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He set off, his destination not the black door, but the doorway he remembered on the left-hand side, which opened onto the flight of stairs down to the court chambers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The elevator was busted, so we walked up several flights. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were telling Papi, who was hidden in this secret closet, about how we would all be leaving in Tío Vic's limo for the airport for a flight he was going to get us. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The flight attendants move quickly down the aisle to make sure people are buckled in and their seats are pushed up. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

If s hard to say, but she may have smiled ever so slightly at the foam flight. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A flight of arrows descended on them; where they came from he could not say, but they fell on Stark and Lannister alike, rattling off armor or finding flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z