The next morning, we alighted at Tynda, the unofficial BAM capital, nearly 7, 000km east of Moscow.

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Last weekend the tour alighted at the Long Beach Convention Center in Southern California.

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He stopped the brougham at Hyde Park Corner, alighted and never saw her again.

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As soon as the ministers alighted, they moved toward the aggrieved and, with folded hands, asked them about their problems.

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The two men discussed topics and eventually alighted on one they both found interesting: the short life and early death of Smith.

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Halfway up the hill, he alighted and began dragging the cart.

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Among the subjects Mr. Hanson alighted upon were the Club-winged Manakin, a bird of the cloud forests of the Andes that strums its feathers like a violin.

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They--we-- alighted like locusts, parking on the grass and at the margins of the vine rows for the massive group tastings organized by the Union des Grands Crus.

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Once we alighted from our cart, we were greeted by women dressed in their colorful native Bai outfits singing a local song, and I was worried we had fallen into a tourist trap.

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We seem to be a long way from the Exaltation of the Cross, the subject of the last scene in Gaddi's fresco cycle, in which the Emperor Heraclius, having alighted from his horse by order of an angel and walking barefoot like a mendicant friar, bears the relic into the holy city.

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