moving floor

Example Sentences

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There is a moving floor beneath them, and it is only the shifting of the scenery that makes them seem to go.

From Christianity and Progress by Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Johnny was muttering and moaning and Hopalong slowly climbed out of the narrow bunk, unsteadily crossed the moving floor, and shook him.

From Bar-20 Days by Mulford, Clarence Edward

The moving floor of ice stretched high across a valley sweeps along as lateral moraines much of the waste which a mountain stream would let accumulate in talus and alluvial cones.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

Presently we were hungry, and we went from our apartment, going by a strange passage with a moving floor, until we came to the great breakfast-room—there was a fountain and music.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Blythe and her partner, however, took little account of the moving floor beneath their feet, or the hesitating demeanour of their companions.

From A Bookful of Girls by Fuller, Anna