| 单词 | volant |
| 例句 | A preliminary report on an omnivorous volant bird from northeast China. The war on parasites: the pigeon's eye view, the oviraptorosaur's eye view 2012-08-23T14:45:02.890Z All my early interests revived; worldly propositions I had thought settled showed themselves unstable and volant; everything was shaken by the moving spirit of youth. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z “His volant touch, Instinct through all proportions, low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z How far they could be carried was mere theme of conjecture, until it was his fate to listen to the magical performances of Helena, whose volant finger seemed to be self-impelled. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z To fly has always been an object of ambition with man; nor will this occasion surprise when we remember the marvellous freedom enjoyed by volant as compared with non-volant animals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z I have considered the structure of all volant animals, and find the folding continuity of the bat’s wings most easily accommodated to the human form. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The above list is composed mainly of volant or relatively large and mobile mammals, several of which occur also in Eurasia or range well into the Neotropics. Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota It consists of a kind of pelisse, fulled into the narrow band around the throat, which is concealed by a small collar, having for ornament a volant or frill of Chantilly lace. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 The appeal was comprehensible, and the charioteer, assiduously obliging, fell to posture of checking none too volant steeds. The So-called Human Race Mean as the dust, through the volant vast Flung like chaff, as ashes cast To the nether storms, I sank, pride past, On the waiting wings of the First and Last ... Ioläus The man that was a ghost Last steps Abbreviation, bold and strong, 391 And leads the volant trains of words along; With sweet loquacity to Hermes springs, And decks his forehead and his feet with wings. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes I trust that Mr. Collier will not, in the teeth of such evidence, substitute volant for violent in correcting the text of his forthcoming edition. Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Banners floated in air, colossal embroidery tissues Of Tyrian looms, scarlet, black, violet and amber, Or the perfectest cunning of trained Babylonian artist, Or massy embossed, from the volant shuttle of Phrygian. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Fled what force she had To buckle the jaw-gape, wide agog For the Preconcerted One, The Anticipated, ripe to clinch the whole; Queen-bee to hive the hither and thither volant swarm. The Book of Humorous Verse Birds about to take wing are “rising”; when in flight, they are “volant”; when at rest, they are “close.” The Handbook to English Heraldry ‘Un dragon volant, flying over the empty sea!’ said Logan. The Disentanglers They were terrible looking fellows, clad in broad-skirted gaberdines, of that curious colored cloth called thunder and lightning,—and bore as a standard three devil's darning-needles, volant, in a flame-colored field. Washington Irving Earth has her gorgeous towns; the earth-circling sea Has spires and mansions more amusive still— Men's volant homes that measure liquid space On wheel or wing. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 Indeed, no book, however witty, lively, saltatory, can have the volant effects we covet, if it want substance and seriousness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 The difficulty of keeping so great a mass of weighty metal in so volant an attitude, has been admirably overcome by the artist. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831 Out with your feathers! and I’ll produce my dragon volant, tail and all.’ The Disentanglers You are innately volant if left to yourself. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America His sonorous music, with its absolute sureness of purpose, and its contrapuntal art, recalls the vision in Paradise Lost of him who— with volant touch Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue. Landmarks in French Literature They played battledore and shuttlecock in the picture-gallery, and my lady laughed when her volant struck some reverend judge or venerable bishop a rap on the nose. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger You might as well talk of Christian Mathematics as of Christian Art, or bind the sweet influences of Pleiades as the volant sallies of a poet's wit. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett A dragon volant, did you ever hear such nonsense? The Disentanglers Look out of the window at the volant clouds. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America "Let me see: volant means—what does volant mean?" Malcolm I have considered the structure of all volant animals, and find the folding continuity of the bat's wings most easily accommodated to the human form. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes Sganarelle appears in this piece for the first time, if we except the farce, or rather sketch, of the Médecin volant, where in reality nothing is developed, but everything is in mere outline. Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband Quarterly 1st and 4th Gules, on a fesse wavy argent, between three pitchers double eared or, as many bees volant proper. 2nd and 3rd Gules, a lion rampant argent between six acorns or. John Keble's Parishes They looked through the glass cages at these volant pterosaurs with American Airlines branded on their skins. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Here's a bit I cam upo' last nicht: His volant touch, Instinct through all proportions, low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue. Malcolm The effect of the ornate overskirt falling on the plain underskirt with its small double volant was, she thought, and Gerald too, adorable. The Old Wives' Tale They were terrible looking fellows, clad in broad-skirted gaberdines, of that curious colored cloth called thunder and lightning, and bore as a standard three devil's darning-needles, volant, in a flame-colored field. Washington Irving |
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