...It dropped like a plummet, as was its manner... 
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
..." "I must own, sir," said the duchess, "that inall your discourse, you, as we say, proceed with the plummet ofreason, and fathom all the depths of controversy...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...From the midst of the birds which were soaringaway, one was seen to rise suddenly a few feet abovehis comrades, and then fall straight as a plummet,and head first, to earth...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Each man was prepared with along strong cord line, with a couple of hooks fastenedto the ends of about a foot of whalebone, with a smallleaden plummet in the centre...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
...One day I kept my eye upon one untilit had repeated its song one hundred and threetimes; then it closed its wings, and dropped towardthe earth like a plummet, as does its European congener...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...One moment he was droppinglike a plummet, the next he was shooting up like a rocket as a verticalblast of air caught the plane and tossed her like a cork into theinvisible heavens...
Victor Rousseau 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930」
...He saw the adjoining airport,and dropped like a plummet, hovering down until his wheels touched theground...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930」
...This time it fell like a plummet fortwelve thousand feet...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
...For fifteen minutes more he kept theplane on a straight course and then,bringing it to a quick stop, he let itdrop like a plummet toward the earth...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
...A ship with one wing aflame was tottering in mid-air, and another was dropping like a plummet...
William Fitzgerald Jenkins 「The Fifth-Dimension Tube」
...igh up, a dark blob against the feeble starlight, something wasdropping; dropping with the speed of a plummet, straight for themassed Mercutian fliers...
Nat Schachner 「Slaves of Mercury」
...The training-plane dropped like a plummet...
Murray Leinster 「Morale」
...The plane wavered, and then, like a plummet, fell...
Raymond King Cummings 「The White Invaders」
...Lieon the ground; hang a plummet above your head, sight on the line withone eye, and the direction of the sight will be the zenith of yourplace...
Simon Newcomb 「Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science」
...Afew years ago we hung a plummet from the top of this monument tothe bottom...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
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