alight

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set alight

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to come to rest on the ground

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alight on: to find or meet by chance

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to come to rest, settle

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come down

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lighted up by or as by fire or flame

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However, Volumnia, in the course of her bird-like hopping about and pecking at papers, has alighted on a memorandum concerning herself in the event of "anything happening" to her kinsman, which is handsome compensation for an extensive course of reading and holds even the dragon Boredom at bay.
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