1.   And his grip tightened as he rose, bearing her aloft, and then, with infinite gentleness, lowering her, lowering, lowering, upon him.

2.   And though he is today borne aloft by the ecstasy of a popular revolution, he may find that hard realities soon set in.

3.   A second Icarus, borne aloft by two broad bands of hanging silk, soars in a spiral and plummets like a stone.

4.   All along, Vollmann bears us aloft on the swelling currents of his prose, which is psychedelic, hallucinatory, slyly self-referential and confiding.

5.   Having been borne aloft on the boom years, airlines will be hurt when times get bad.

6.   Mainly, European sports are being borne aloft by an explosion of cable and digital television as state broadcasting monopolies crumble.

7.   Pesticides borne aloft by summer winds may be contributing to the decline of frogs and other beleaguered amphibians in the Sierra Nevada, researchers reported Thursday.

8.   Skeptics also argue that the lower temperatures measured by the satellites are confirmed by instruments borne aloft by weather balloons.