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At any rate, to bring this back to the main topic: Kite-flying, and similar activities, are potentially useful because they build social networks.
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Kite-flying amongst Indians is an exciting sport, quite different to the tame amusement of merely seeing how high a kite will go.
India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin
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Kite-flying is also a favourite amusement; and old age and childhood may frequently be seen side-by-side, tugging at soaring monsters, in the construction of which great ingenuity is displayed.
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver
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Kite-flying is a pleasure which no American boy appreciates as does the Chinese, a pleasure which clings to him till he is three-score years and ten, for it is not uncommon to find a child and his grandfather in the balmy days of spring flying their kites together.
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Kite-flying, which in Europe and America is the amusement of children exclusively, is here, as in China and Birmah, the pastime of both sexes, and all ages and conditions of people.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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Kite-flying and floating on one's back in the water do go together.
True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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Kite-flying, which in Europe and America is the amusement of children exclusively, is here, as in China and Birmah, the pastime of both sexes, and all ages and conditions of people.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870
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Kite-flying is a sport for women, but every woman will run away from a swift ball.
Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745
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Kite-flying has been a popular pastime in Thailand since the Sukhothai and Ayutthaya periods, with many members of the nation's royal family indulging in the hobby.
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Kite-flying competition followed by entertainment.
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