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aloft Adverb 1. in the air 2. Naut in the rigging of a ship [Old Norse ā lopt]
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I had passed the forest, and had come, as it were, to the legs of the old stone Witch who sits up aloft there forever waiting for the world to die. The tall masts holding aloft the white canvas, spread out like a snare for catching the invisible power of the air, emerge gradually from the water, sail after sail, yard after yard, growing big, till, under the towering structure of her machinery, you perceive the insignificant, tiny speck of her hull.
AN EAGLE, flying down from his perch on a lofty rock, seized upon a lamb and carried him aloft in his talons. |
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