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
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
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 vault was turquoise, and the moving floor was cobalt.
From London River by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
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
