"when the general, nursing his bruised shoulder, had gone, rainsford took up his flight again. it was flight now, a desperate, hopeless flight, that carried him on for some hours."

in this passage, the word flight means
a) an act of running away.
b) a continuous series of stairs.
c) an act of passing through the air.
d) a brilliant, imaginative exercise or display.

In older literature flight is often used when meaning to flee or escape which is synonymous to the word run. By looking at the text, we can infer that ths is true. Rainsford took up his flight again. Your answer would be A) An act of running away.

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