aloft
/əˈlɔft/ adverb C2- At, to, or in the air or sky. · high winds aloft
- Above, overhead, in a high place; up.
- In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.
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This made Marilla more nervous than ever; she had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child’s body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.
An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air.
A Hawk observed it, and, pouncing upon it with his talons, carried it aloft.
The rustic, ignorant of his danger, was about to drink, when the Eagle struck his hand with his wing, and, seizing the drinking horn in his talons, carried it aloft.
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