flight

Most birds are capable of flight.

The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.

a flight of swallows

The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.

She crept up the stairs … On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.

How many flights is it up?

Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft / I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight / The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch / To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both, / I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […]

a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination