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Flying visit   /flˈaɪɪŋ vˈɪzət/   Listen
Flying visit

noun
1.
A visit that last for only a very short time.





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"Flying visit" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the summer Mr. Seeley and his wife paid us a flying visit on their way back from Switzerland. It was a great pleasure to ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... Leigh's perturbation of mind at the thought of Emmet made his impression of the personnel of the party so vague that he might have passed most of them the following day without recognition. They had evidently dined well, and were finishing a gay evening with a flying visit to the college observatory. Only the personality of Cobbens was salient in the group, and would have been so even if Leigh's curiosity concerning the man had not ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... present quarters from coming to the knowledge of the angry Nicholas, and all were feeling it better for the young man to take his departure. Now the moment of parting had really come, and already the hope of a flying visit to the Chase in the summer next to follow was the brightest thought to lighten the regrets of ...
— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green
... on to inform me further that old Nelson, at least, remembered me, since some time after his flying visit to Makassar he had written to the Mesmans asking for my ...
— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad
... people here call a flying visit to Washington, which means, I suppose, that the railroad cars go about as swift as a bird flies, which they do, if one is allowed to choose the bird—a white bantam, for instance, with clipped wings. Well, I really don't know much about the speed, only I was awful tired when ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens


Words linked to "Flying visit" :   visit


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