volant

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L'eau va viste en s'escoulant, Plus viste le traict volant, Et plus viste encore passe Le vent qui les nues chasse.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2022

Patrolling males can be seen braving strong surge, motoring stiffly above the reef like a majestic, volant pickup truck.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2015

A volant khaodracian and marine seawasp, podarciforms, lugagub iguaniform and marine skink are shown at top; assorted varanidans, teiioids and iguanians are shown at middle; an acanthodactylid and anopsidian amphisbaenian are at bottom.

From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013

Thick squamofiber coats are present in the endothermic uromastyxians and agamiforms of the cool Asian continental interior and also in many of the volant khaodracians of Eurasia.

From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013

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.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton