volant

Historical Examples of volant

• The appeal was comprehensible, and the charioteer, assiduously obliging, fell to posture of checking none too volant steeds.

  The So-called Human Race

  Bert Leston Taylor

• The over-breastplate was also called the volant—a defence much used in tilts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

  Spanish Arms and Armour

  Albert F. Calvert

• Again his cheek wore the brightness of health; and his volant step, too often reminded him how narrow were his boundaries.

  The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 2 (of 4)

  Jane Porter

• Indeed, many kinds of volant animals are endemic to the Solomons.

  Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands

  Carleton J. Phillips

• Verba volant, scripta manent—What is spoken flies, what is written remains.

  Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

  James Wood