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But how are we to explain the reaction of this fluxional body on the animal?

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

His theoretic notions were fluent; and when minds less plastic than his own attempted to render those fluxional images rigid, he rebelled.

From Faraday as a Discoverer by Tyndall, John

Occasionally they show a fluxional banding; they may also be spherulitic or vesicular.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various