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"Parachute" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unbroken from gable to gable; the windows were glazed with sheets of plate glass, a temporary iron stovepipe passing out near one of these, and running up to the height of the ridge, where it was finished by a covering like a parachute. Walking round to the end, he perceived an oblong white stone let into the wall just above the plinth, on which was inscribed ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... bodies rather wide and with the skin on their flanks rather full, to the so-called flying squirrels; and flying squirrels have their limbs and even the base of the tail united by a broad expanse of skin, which serves as a parachute and allows them to glide through the air to an astonishing distance from tree to tree. We cannot doubt that each structure is of use to each kind of squirrel in its own country, by enabling it to ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin |
Words linked to "Parachute" : skydive, parasail, rescue equipment, come down, golden parachute, canopy, glide, dive, parachute jumper, ripcord, parachuting, sky dive, fall, drogue chute, shroud, plunk, parachutist, drogue, static line, harness, drogue parachute, chute, plunge, descend, go down |
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