Verb (used without object), : The bird alighted on the tree.    From Dictionary.com. 

What is likened to an eagle that is "alit" on a crag?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

And when they were alit they made great joy of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

And then they alit both, and put him into a tomb of marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

He alit in a rice paddy where he was found by friendly Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whirlwind] Reference

Something had come over him the moment he had alit from the car.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

A Vosk gull had alit on the wreckage to which I had earlier clung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guardsman Of Gor]

Wherever the fiery brands alit, they spread the flames uncontrollably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whirlwind] Reference

The train stopped "Get Hannibal alit of his harness!" he told Paul Tilak.    From Wordnik.com.  [A different flesh]

So when Lionel saw this, he alit off his horse to have smitten off his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

Three ornithopters alit on the low hillock where the palace would have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

Within this chamber the ceiling - plates were alit with their own ambient glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

And then he alit off his horse, and said: Fair sweet brother, when came ye hither?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

The anxiety in her face increased for a moment until her eyes alit on her sisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartless]

    Three ornithopters alit on the low hillock where the palace would have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

Rama cupida aequandi bovem, se distendebat, &c. 1717. alit ingenia: Paterculus poster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

I alighted alit? two stops later, and walked the rest of the way; man, that dude stank.    From Wordnik.com.  [the age of steampunk] Reference

Then Sir Launcelot alit and entered into the chapel and there he saw an old man dead, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

Lifting her navy blue skirts high above practical brogans, Dr. Fiona MacEwan alit from her buggy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

The general alit on the bedpost and drew his dark wings close about him, as if to console himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian] Reference

And on the strand he found a ship covered all with white samite, and he alit, and betook him to Jesu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

I hadn't tried to hide it or fob off an excuse in time, and now he had alit in the seat in front of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bite-Sized Piece] Reference

And then her eyes, moving on to another group, alit on a man whom she did not know: — and paused on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christmas Bride]

Cheer up, I say, be not dismayed; Spes alit agricolas: he that sows in tears, shall reap in joy, Psal. cxxvi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Right so alit a cloud betwixt them in likeness of a fire and a marvellous flame, that both their two shields burnt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

His eyes alit on her and then went beyond her to note that there was no carriage and no companion, not even a maid.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

On the side of a four lane road, a house with three towers and silver roof, fully alit, shining like an ufo that fell from the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crossing] Reference

Sir Melias, and there he alit and dressed him softly on his horse tofore him, for the truncheon of his spear was in his body; and Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

A few bright orange and red ginger lilies startle alongside a funny tree whose leafless limbs hold white flowers like butterflies alit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A glass garden] Reference

Long sabers, alit with flames, lined the entryway.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Sah-luma looked up, his bright face alit with laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardath] Reference

From the blackness Bobby heard the low conversational sounds of ducks newly alit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Bobby Orde] Reference

We alit before a stately hermitage, set amidst the evergreen trees of well-kept grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference