How To Use Volant In A Sentence
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What aspect of the ratite genome accounts for the larger size relative to volant birds?
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All birds-even the largest volant species, have relatively low wing loadings relative to, for example, airplanes.
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Today the company offers 300 different notebooks, cahiers, folios and diaries, while last year they caused a splash by launching a range of candy-coloured 'volant'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Education in the schools for cadets, regularity in service, obligation to keep the companies full instead of pocketing a portion of the pay in the name of imaginary soldiers who appeared only on the registers, and who were called dummies (_passe-volants_), the necessity of wearing uniform, introduced into the army customs to which the French nobility, as undisciplined as they were brave, had hitherto been utter strangers.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
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In patentibus Asiae campis certo die congregant se, eam quae novissime advenit lacerant, inde avolant.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He introduced ambulances volantes, light, two-wheeled, sprung vehicles, drawn by two horses, for the rapid evacuation of the wounded.
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In birds, bats and other volant tetrapods, the skin membranes that function in flight are termed patagia.
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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After islands or continents were raised above the primeval ocean, great numbers of the most simple animals would attempt to seek food at the edges or shores of the new land, and might thence gradually become amphibious; as is now seen in the frog, who changes from an aquatic animal to an amphibious one; and in the gnat, which changes from a natant to a volant state.
Canto I
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And upon the top of that one of the stone pillars supporting the gate which I could see, stood a creature of stone, whether natant, volant, passant, couchant, or rampant, I could not tell, only it looked like something terrible enough for a quite antediluvian heraldry.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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Anne sauveuse de mon cuir chevelu maltraité par un Pinku qui oublie que parfois l'apprence ca compte quand meme un minimum, arrive sur sa plaquette de cacheton volante, me conseillant de prendre de la lobamine truc pidel chouette nom barbare de medicament.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Fossils of volant paleoganthous carinate birds from the Paleocene and Eocene appear phenetically most similar to tinamiform birds.
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The positive allometry of flight speeds ensures that translational speeds of volant vertebrate predators substantially exceed those of their insectan prey.
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The air shuddered with volant snow like bead curtains in an earthquake.
Bird Cloud
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Based on the fact that young M. lucifugus are volant at three weeks of age, parturition on Brier Island must have occurred by 25 June.
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Anne sauveuse de mon cuir chevelu maltraité par un Pinku qui oublie que parfois l'apprence ca compte quand meme un minimum, arrive sur sa plaquette de cacheton volante, me conseillant de prendre de la lobamine truc pidel chouette nom barbare de medicament.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Plaza, see more masks, hear more guitars and "catch-this-rat!" and finally return, in a hired _volante_, to the Ensor House, where rest and the bedless cots await us.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
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Hac neque confilii, neque degener ingent, fecutus i£quis adurges mfibus volantem.
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina
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I have sent our folks out to gather fruit at a venture: and now this misery will soon be ended with his illness; driven away by deluges of lemonade, I think, made in defiance of wasps, flies, and a kind of volant beetle, wonderfully beautiful and very pertinacious in his attacks; and who makes dreadful depredations on my sugar and currant-jelly, so necessary on this occasion of illness, and so attractive to all these detestable inhabitants of a place so lovely.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
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On se rappellera que Benjamin Franklin mit en évidence l'existence de l'électricité grâce à un cerf-volant et que "go fly a kite" signifie certes "lance un cerf-volant", mais aussi "Casse-toi !
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volant" round his neck (the "volant" is a huge pruning-hook fastened to a pole, with which they trim trees) crying out, "No more clerks, or there's an end to compromise!
The Celibates
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The positive allometry of flight speeds ensures that translational speeds of volant vertebrate predators substantially exceed those of their insectan prey.
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Un admirador escribió, mientras el Padre Vincent estaba todavía vivo: Es maravilloso ver a aquella feliz persona con su intrigante y excéntrica mirada risueña que viene de entre un remolino de caras deseosas de autoabsorción de Londres, el hábito ondoleando, alerta la vieja figura como las caídas de victorias volantes.
El Rev. Vincent McNabb, O.P.
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In patentibus Asiae campis certo die congregant se, eam quae novissime advenit lacerant, inde avolant.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Vnde nos ipsi nescientes intrauimus termmos coemeterij eorum qui in Hungaria occisi fuerunt, et venerunt super nos sagitt� volantes: sed quia eramus nuncij consuetudinem terr� nescientes, nos liberos dimiserunt abire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He introduced ambulances volantes, light, two-wheeled, sprung vehicles, drawn by two horses, for the rapid evacuation of the wounded.
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Among volant insects, behavior and time spent in flight varies greatly, both influencing probability of being swept off by the air stream.
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I've called this vehicle, generically, a helicop -- a volantor, after the Latin word "volant," meaning, to fly in a light, nimble manner.
Paul Moller on the Skycar
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Fossils of volant paleoganthous carinate birds from the Paleocene and Eocene appear phenetically most similar to tinamiform birds.
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One specific type of floater is either called Muscae volitantes (from the Latin, meaning ‘flying flies’), or mouches volantes (from the French), and consist of small spots.
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These were, in the Portuguese version, per pale argent and vert, two roses dimidiating as many fleurs-de-lis, in dexter canton a dove volant argent.
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And then there came the plots of Jules Verne's stories and marvellous narrations about _l 'uomo cavallo, l' uomo volante, l 'uomo pesce_.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
