Then you should see the city at once," said Clay, "and I will have the volante brought to the door, and we can all go in this afternoon.
When travelling any distance upon the road, a second horse is added on the left, abreast, and attached to the volante by an added whiffletree and traces.
And glad am I that we are past it, and come once unto the day, to those other words of the prophet, "A sagitta volante in die.
After a certain fixed hour of the night, no person is allowed to drive about in a Volante with the head up, unless it rains or the sitter be an invalid; the penalty is fifteen shillings.
I step noiselessly to the ground; the volante is low, permitting this without danger.
When we reached the convent gate, the second volantewas empty.
The three large screws and nuts are for securing it to the breastplate, and also for engaging with the lower edge of the volante piece, which in this example is separate, and has oblong indentations for that purpose as seen at A.
The details may readily be seen in the illustration, and the volante piece, fixed to the helmet by a strap round the gorget, and so moving with it, is of special interest.
This is the Teatro de Tacon; and, in front of this line of tall houses, in contrast with the almost uniform one-story buildings of the city, the volante stops.
After breakfast, I take a volante and ride into the town, to deliver my letters.
There is novolante waiting, and I have to take my seat in an omnibus, and wait for the end of the scene.
He remained with us for some time, sitting under the veranda, the silvered volante and its black horses and black postilion standing under the trees.
When traveling any distance, a second horse is added on the left, abreast of the first, and attached to the volante by an added whiffletree and traces.
The public vehicle called a victoria is a sort of four-wheeled calash, and it has entirely superseded the volante for city use.
Even the wonderful volante can only make its way in the environs of cities.
We set off, passing through fields guarded by stiff-leaved hedges of the ratoon-pine, over ways so bad that if the motion of the volante were not the easiest in the world, we should have taken an unpleasant jolting.
The volante is the vehicle which the Cubans specially affect; it is like a Hansom cab, but the wheels are much taller, six and a half feet high, and the black driver sits postillion-wise upon the horse.
Very soon all the passengers are gone but ourselves; we, the only foreigners, are left alone to wait the hour when a volante can be obtained.
So soon as our volante reached the landing, the custom-house officer appeared, received my keys, proceeded with official composure to examine the trunks.
Arrived at Guiness, the volante does not come as we expected from the plantation where we are invited to spend a week or more.
Behind us in the west rises a rough, high bluff, flanked by endless lines of barracks; on the outer wall, a solitary sentinel paces and watches us; under its shadow stands our waiting volante and the sunburnt callisero.
There were ten of those rascals, and but three of you," said the old gentleman, stepping out of the volante and arranging his ruffled dress.
Isabella, the moment they were safely in the boat, fainted, while Count Anguera ran for a volante for conveyance home.
In the volante was the person of a lady, but so closely enshrouded by a voluminous rebosa, or Spanish shawl, as hardly to leave any of her figure exposed, her face being hid from fright at the scene being enacted about her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volante" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
