... Pontoons: light framework or floats on which a platformor roadway is laid for a temporary bridge... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Near the floats marched boys with pitchers of water...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...Another black bird, with a long tail ('Centropus Senegalensis'), floats awkwardly, with its tail in a perpendicular position, over the long grass...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Amongst them are prodigious numbers of the ubiquitousviolet-coloured Ianthina,which rises when the ocean is calm, and by means of its inflatedvesicles floats lightly on the surface...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The Anthophora provisions its cells with honey and pollen, and its egg in consequence floats on the top—the number of cells varies from five or six up to ten or eleven...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...Use a flat bottom boat or a good safe one and place him gently in the water, hold his head above the water till he floats, then row to the shore...
Oliver Hartley 「Hunting Dogs」
...The oil floats on the water, and as the animals pass through the vat theirbodies become coated with oil...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Its oriental architecture, and its numerous canals,on whose surface floats in Italian ease, real Venetiangondolas, give it an atmosphere suggestive of the Mediterranean...
Harry Thom Payne 「Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast」
...Seenfrom above as it floats on the honey, it is elliptical in form,tapering gradually towards the front and more suddenly towards therear...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Whether formed wholly of fibrous remnants or of mixed materials, not one of them floats...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Historically, this whale was nearly exterminated byhunters, who took advantage of its slow speed and who knewthat its carcass floats, to harvest these animals for their greatyield of whalebone and oil...
Stephen Leatherwood 「Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic」
...I thought of the floating alligator, of its intestines—what if I inflated them? Yes, yes! buoys and bladders, floats and life-preservers! that was the thought...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
..."Now she takes it!" Charley cried, as we dashed across the middle of aline of floats which marked a net...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
...All the trout food comesrushing down both streams from behind these big rocks into the silentwater and floats right up to the very noses of these gentlemen ofleisure...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...The one whose history we have just traced attaches itself to an insect whose egg floats above a store of honey; the second chooses a victim who attaches its egg to the walls of a chamber...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...It came back, sliding along the top of the water withits wing-tip floats leaving alternate streaks of white foam behindthem...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930」
...Bell swung out on the floats and tugged at the prop...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930」
...When this happens she simply floats on the water until thedamage is repaired, or help reaches her...
Simon Newcomb 「Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science」
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