So shall my lines soft-rolling eyes engage, And snow-white fingers turn the volant page; 30 The smiles of Beauty all my toils repay, And youths and virgins chant the living lay.
Cerf Volant entered readily into friendship, upon an under-standing of an additional half-fish at supper every evening.
No alderman ever loved his turtle better than did Cerf Volant love his white fish; but I rather think that the white fish was better earned than the turtle--however we will let that be matter of opinion.
Evidently De Groof, like his inventive predecessor in Rasselas, had considered the structure of allvolant animals, and found ‘the folding continuity of the bat’s wing most easily accommodated to the human form.
Among these descendants of the Volant family is the Rt.
Indeed, as Coeur-Volant pointed out, the Venetian customs almost appeared to have been devised for the convenience of strangers.
Coeur-Volant spoke eloquently of the pleasures to be enjoyed in this delightful season of the villeggiatura.
Odo soon contrived to reassure the Marquess as to his designs upon Miranda, and when Coeur-Volant was not at cards the two young men spent much of their time together.
These, as Coeur-Volant hinted, included the liberty of leaving the convent after night-fall to visit her friends; and he professed to be one of those whom she had thus honoured.
Indeed, many kinds of volant animals are endemic to the Solomons.
III Infuriate she kicked against Imperial fact; Vulnant she felt What pin-stab should have stained Another's pelt Puncture her own Colonial lung-balloon, Volant to nigh meridian.
Will you both do a very good-natured thing, and come and dine with me at the Dragon Volant to-morrow?
I scaled the park-wall again, and reached the Dragon Volant before its doors were closed.
A general could not have chosen a more effectually-covered approach from the Dragon Volant to the trysting-place where hitherto I had conferred with the idol of my lawless adoration.
The host of the Dragon Volant was an elderly man, thin, bronzed, intelligent, and with an air of decision, perfectly military.
It is at first Worm, next Crab, then a perfect, volant animal with limbs, a Fly.
Here range the Worms, Crustacea, and the proper or volant Insects.
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.
Lucy that there is a general law, to the effect that the larger the volant animal, the smaller, by comparison, are its flying surfaces.
The arms of Knox, Earl of Ranfurly, are: Gules, a falcon volant or, within an orle wavy on the outer and engrailed on the inner edge argent.
The ordinary heraldic dove will be found most frequently represented with its wings close and holding a branch of laurel in its beak, but it also occurs volant and with outstretched wings.
It is usually represented as if displayed upon the shield, and it is then termed volant, though of course the real term which will sometimes be found used is "volant en arriere" (Fig.
Crest: on a wreath "purple and gold," a bee volant or.
In the centre of the line the king paused, and raised the volant piece of his helmet, when his face might be seen by every one, calm, proud, and dignified.
I scaled the park wall again, and reached the Dragon Volant before its doors were closed.
There were quartered there many servants of great people, whose masters would not leave the ball till the last moment, and who could not return to their corners in the Dragon Volant till their last services had been rendered.
Will you both do a very good-natured thing, and come and dine with me at the Dragon Volant tomorrow?
Illustration: His volant touch Fied and pursued transverse the resonant fugue.
An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed.
Recovered from their semi-stupid condition, they do not at once go to feeding again, but pass a long time in the healthful exercise of their volant appendages.
Nothing can give the enthusiastic lover of Nature more true and unalloyed happiness than the study of our aquatic friend in his own loved haunts, and while in the delightful exercise of his volant powers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agile; brisk; catty; flitting; fluttering; flying; sprightly; spry
