They have one aim: to escape from the fatality that fixes them to the soil, to invent wings, as it were, so that they may soar above the region that gave them birth, and there expand in the light which is their blossoming.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
They had been too weak to soar aloft, and had not borne the test of freedom.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
He would neither dive nor soar; he would strive neither to teach nor to reform.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr