sorvolare
= verbo transitivo e intr . volare sopra , <
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Che matta voglia avrebbe il ragazzetto di nove anni di far passare di corsa, sorvolare sul Belgio quelle bandierine tedesche tra gli inchini ossequiosi delle bandierine belghe; in quattro salti farle arrivare a Parigi; piantarne lì un pajo, vittoriose, e in altri quattro salti farle tornare indietro e avventarle contro la Russia insieme con quelle austriache!
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Egli diceva le parole d'agonia e di minaccia, debole e tremante, in preda al gorgo elementare che aggirava la sua vita come un rottame o un'alga. Erano essi in fondo al lecceto, su lo sprone della collina proteso come un promontorio verso le maligne piagge grige, verso le crete gibbose e scagliose, verso le immense biancane senz'ombra. L'impeto e l'ebrezza del volo risorsero dal loro desiderio constretto. Essi riudirono il sibilo dell'elica, riebbero sul viso il vento della rapidità, sentirono nell'azzurro la bianchezza della grande Àrdea come il colore stesso della loro gioia aerea. Imaginarono di varcare lo spazio in un solo veleggio fino al Tirreno che luceva laggiù, di là dalla Valdera, di là dai Monti Pisani, tra Migliarino e Boccadarno. Sorvolarono la pineta del Tombolo, scesero su la prateria salmastra; ritrovarono la villa solitaria, la terrazza lastricata di maiolica, il tappeto della danza, i cuscini delle carezze. (D'Annunzio - Forse che sì forse che no)
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* Capisco purtroppo che i motivi del silenzio son più offensivi del silenzio stesso : ma come vuol eh' io rimedi ? S' io sapessi fingere e simulare e dir bugie come tante delle sue sorelle — non come lei , s' intende ! — avrei potuto sorvolare su questo punto oppure avrei potuto contentarla , inframezzando qua e là di amorosi ricordi questa nuda narrazione di avvenimenti interiori . (G .Papini - Un uomo finito)<>
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sorvolamento
= il sorvolare , l'essere sorvolato . <>
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But I cansay that Tom had no sooner finished speaking, than she pricked up herears, and started forward at a speed which made the clay-coloured gigrattle until you would have supposed every one of the red spokes weregoing to fly out on the turf of Marlborough Downs; and even Tom, whipas he was, couldn't stop or check her pace, until she drew up of her ownaccord, before a roadside inn on the right-hand side of the way, abouthalf a quarter of a mile from the end of the Downs.<>
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Having satisfiedhimself, by mathematical calculation, that the apartment was about equalin annual value to the freehold of a small street in the suburbs ofLondon, he took to wondering what possible temptation could have induceda dingy-looking fly that was crawling over his pantaloons, to come intoa close prison, when he had the choice of so many airy situations--acourse of meditation which led him to the irresistible conclusionthat the insect was insane.<>
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All I ask is, vere?'Here the contest was renewed with increased violence; and the horsebeing troubled with a fly on his nose, the cabman humanely employedhis leisure in lashing him about on the head, on the counter-irritationprinciple.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Martin!' said the old lady, when the fly stopped at the door of Mr.Robert Sawyer, late Nockemorf.<>
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Now depitty sawbones, bring out thewollatilly!'The latter observation was addressed to the boy in gray, who, havinghanded over the fly to the care of the street-keeper, had come back tosee what all the noise was about.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'We are all friends here, I presume?' said Mr. Pickwick, clearinghis voice, and looking towards the man of few words with the surlycountenance, who drove the fly with the chubby horse.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Con-found it, no,' rejoined Mr. Simmery, stopping for an instant tosmash a fly with the ruler.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) There was a short pause, and then Devine shrugged his shoulders andsaid: "It all comes back to bees and wasps looking very much alike inthis world, doesn't it?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) III THE SONG OF THE FLYING FISHTHE soul of Mr. Peregrine Smart hovered like a fly round one possessionand one joke.<>
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There was a man who had a fly in his eye whenhe looked through the telescope, and he discovered that there was a mostincredible dragon in the moon.<>
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He liked us to think that he hadmarvellous mental powers that could make a material object fly throughspace; and even when he hadn't done it, he allowed us to think he had.<>
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