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Synonyms for alit
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : uh-lit |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈlɪt |
Définition of alit
Origin :- poetic past tense and past participle of alight (v.).
- verb land
- As ill-luck would have it, I alit upon my feet within the vehicle.
- Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
- A faint scent of chypre from Petticoat's cigarette as he alit.
- Extract from : « Ptomaine Street » by Carolyn Wells
- Then she there alit, and came before the king and saluted him; and he said: Damosel, God thee bless.
- Extract from : « A Knyght Ther Was » by Robert F. Young
- They were still high up, but all of a sudden they darted down together and alit on a tall tree that stood nearly alone.
- Extract from : « The Forest Exiles » by Mayne Reid
- And then he alit off his horse, and said: Fair sweet brother, when came ye hither?
- Extract from : « Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) » by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
- Then Sir Launcelot alit and entered into the chapel and there he saw an old man dead, in a white shirt of passing fine cloth.
- Extract from : « Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) » by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
- Right so alit a cloud betwixt them in likeness of a fire and a marvellous flame, that both their two shields burnt.
- Extract from : « Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) » by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
- And on the strand he found a ship covered all with white samite, and he alit, and betook him to Jesu Christ.
- Extract from : « Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) » by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
- Nutritur vento, vento restinguitur ignis: / Lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat!
- Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
- It flew circling among the crags, and once I thought it had passed seaward; but it came again, and alit on a boulder.
- Extract from : « The Divine Adventure etc. (Works vol. 4) » by Fiona Macleod
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