"Before me natant birds hunker against the teeth of a northerly breeze.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference

Eurique Zephyrique tonat domus, omnia plenis Rura natant foflis, atque omnis navita ponto Humida vela legit.    From Wordnik.com.  [P. Virgilii Maronis Opera] Reference

Gemmas terminales tantuiji ramoj exferunt, adeoque minime omnium topiaria efti RadiceSy velut in ipfa fuperficie terra? natant, pri maria tantum radice excepta, quaD. perpendicuIari ter alte fefe in terram demergit, quare etiam btt arbor vix transplantatur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ...] Reference

And upon the top of that one of the stone pillars supporting the gate which I could see, stood a creature of stone, whether natant, volant, passant, couchant, or rampant, I could not tell, only it looked like something terrible enough for a quite antediluvian heraldry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

After these an apparatus of limbs for future uses, or for the purpose of moving the body in its present natant state, and of lungs for future respiration, and of testes for future reproduction, are formed by the irritations and sensations, and consequent exertions of the parts previously existing, and to which the new parts are to be attached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

After islands or continents were raised above the primeval ocean, great numbers of the most simple animals would attempt to seek food at the edges or shores of the new land, and might thence gradually become amphibious; as is now seen in the frog, who changes from an aquatic animal to an amphibious one; and in the gnat, which changes from a natant to a volant state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference

Utque rosae puro lacte natant folia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

Its natant form in the circumfluent waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canto I] Reference

Quot non illa natant eadem tua flumina cygni.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference

Its natant form in the circumfluent waves; 390.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference

Stellæ natant in flúmine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hymns of St. John Nepomucene] Reference

Vtque rofae puro iafte natant folra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex. Avrel. Propertivs varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstratvs] Reference

Membra natant.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Dr Owen] Reference

Potomogetons three or four, one only natant; Chara, Naias, Ceratophyllum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference