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Перевод: alighting

[прилагательное]
посадочный;
[существительное]
высадка из лодки; приземление; спуск ; посадка

Тезаурус:

1. Bird Alighting (Peopeo Tholekt) rode out to parley, but returned in consternation after one of the civilians repeatedly jabbed a rifle into his ribs.
2. Assured of success by the dream of a warrior called Black Hair, twenty-eight warriors, including Ollokot, Looking Glass, Toohoolhoolzote, Two Moons and Bird Alighting, stealthily entered Howard's camp at 3.30 a.m. to steal his horses.
3. Although this might discourage rabbits and deer - even the occasional burrowing lizard or jumping kangaroo - it would not prevent a bird from alighting on the road.
4. Alighting upon the bonnet (hood, if you are American), in full view through the windscreen, it opened its wings to their fullest extent, remaining there before the grateful gaze of this gentle man who walked with God and loved the creatures of His natural world.
5. U.S. army mountain howitzer and carriage, like that seized from General Gibbon by Peopeo Tholekt (Bird Alighting) at the Battle of the Big Hole.
6. Alighting on another optimistic subject for British wildlife - butterflies to be exact - Edwin Mullins explains why he is so bewitched by them and James Driver advises on how to increase their numbers by breeding caterpillars (see page 80).
7. Alighting from the battle bus in Cornwall last week, he said: "It's great to be back in Devon."
8. "A lady of light weight may ride to the top of Skiddaw without alighting, and descend it to the town in safety, if in the steepest parts someone manages her horses head.
9. Whipple insisted upon seeing Looking Glass, and as Bird Alighting returned to his chief's lodge, a civilian suddenly shot a watching Nez Perce to the ground.
10. The Nez Perce raised a white flag, and Bird Alighting, accompanied by an old man named Kalowet, rode out again to tell the soldiers: "Leave us alone.
11. And yet, alighting in the sunshine from the trembling train I found myself in a space transfigured by the three stages of the passage through the underworld that is matinee cinema: the transition from day to night; the day for night of the viewing; the transition back to daylight.
12. To the west, a group led by Bird Alighting seized Gibbon's pack-train, destroying a mountain howitzer and capturing 20,000 rounds of Springfield ammunition.
13. As I rode out of town, past the railway station and its "Welcome to Prestatyn" message, to alighting holidaymakers, I could not help thinking that they certainly were.