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He bounds from the earth as if his entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus qui a les narines de feu!
ROOKWOODWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTHAt a small distance was an iron passe-volant of 16 pounds, which discharged cartridge shot.
A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, VOLUME VIROBERT KERRQuebec now also trembled for itself, and it was at this time that de Lauson reestablished the "camp volant."
MONTREAL 1535-1914 UNDER THE FRENCH RGIMEWILLIAM HENRY ATHERTONThe over-breastplate was also called the volant—a defence much used in tilts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
SPANISH ARMS AND ARMOURALBERT F. CALVERTSorte d'insecte volant qui porte des cornes dentelées, comme celles du cerf.
NOTES AND QUERIES, ISSUE NO. 61, DECEMBER 28, 1850VARIOUSThe toy called a kite is in French cerf volant, flying stag, a name also applied to the stag-beetle, and in Ger.
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS (4TH ED.)ERNEST WEEKLEYThe annexed cut represents a dragon volant, as borne in the arms of Raynon of Kent, and the draco volans of the zoologists.
THE CURIOSITIES OF HERALDRYMARK ANTONY LOWERThe family of Enys, who bear: "Argent, three wyverns volant in pale vert," probably derive their arms from some such source.
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HERALDRYARTHUR CHARLES FOX-DAVIESA swallow "volant" appears upon the arms usually ascribed to the town of Arundel.
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HERALDRYARTHUR CHARLES FOX-DAVIESCrest: on a wreath "silver and gules," a dove volant argent, with an olive-branch vert in his beak.
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