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- for centuries people had been fascinated by the flight of birds
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- a work of 19th-century Romanticism depicting the ancient Israelites' flight from Egypt
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“Flight.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flight. Accessed 22 January 2020.
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