" Jake rested a lean hand on a post and vaulted the fence.

But to take the earner, is a compound, life-long theftsupreme robbery, that vaults up the climax at a leapthe dread, terrific, giant robbery, that towers among other robberies a solitary horror, monarch of the realm.

The great portal of the venerable church was thrown open, and the solemn chant was heard issuing, in responses, from among the quaint columns and vaulted roofs within.

Without hesitation, and as though it were the most natural thing in the world, I vaulted the rail to cast myself into the ocean.

Almost he vaulted the stile between the field and the canal bank.

It was McFluke trying to retreat through the doorway into the back room, and being prevented from accomplishing his purpose by Racey Dawson who, at the innkeeper's first panic-stricken movement, had vaulted the bar and grabbed him by the neck.

" "Wait till I take a look at them," he said, and, vaulting the low railing, he walked quickly along the front of the house and around the corner.

The general effect is a certain monotonous severity, and the absence of vaulting shafts gives the building a tunnel-like appearance.

Not more than three gigantic leaps brought Ken to the spot; he vaulted the wall with a clean and magnificent spring that would have won him fame at school.

" Whereupon, heedless of Mistress Charity's ever-growing agitation, he ran towards the boundary wall of the park, and vaulted the low gate with an agile jump even as she uttered a pathetic appeal to him not to leave her alone in the dark.

Try and vault it, first to the right, then to the left, as you did with the horse; try first with one hand, then see how high you can vault with both.

So we rode, bending low in the saddle, keen eyes alert for branches, vaulting the whiteblanketed logs, and swerving as we split to pass the pines.

And now it was all here; beasts, birds, vaulting men, flying women, racing horses and all.

Abbot Sodbury (1322-35) vaulted the nave, and it was left for one of his successors, Walter Monington (1341-74), to fill in the vaulting of the choir.

hornacina, f., vaulted niche, niche. horrible, horrible, fearful. horror, m., horror, dread; santo , awe, reverential fear.

Inside was a narrow floor and walls and vault o' brick; we could not see what was in it, for 'twas dark as pick.

She took her bottom-lip between her teeth, shut her left eye, vaulted out the revolver like an old shot to the level of her intense right eye, and sent a ball through the geometrical centre of the boss.

Before leaving the fortress, I was led to a deep underground vault the former scene of numerous secret executions.

" I remember, too, the last verse of it: "And at the last no solemn stole Shall on thy breast be laid; No mumbling priest shall speed thy soul, No charnel vault thee shade.

It was partly for the sake of avenging himself on his mother, whose decisive practicality jarred the delicate music of a nature extravagantly ideal, that he so severely criticised all that she held sacred; and his strictures fell heaviest on the bow window, looking somewhat like a temple with its small pilasters supporting the rich cornice from which the dwarf vaulting springs.

Once, on the 15th July, I had seen a whale, or thought I did, spouting very remotely afar on the S.E. horizon; and on the 19th I distinctly saw a shoal of porpoises vaulting the sea-surface, in their swift-successive manner, northward: and seeing them, I had said pitifully to myself: 'Well, I am not quite alone in the world, then, my good Godnot quite alone.'

and he again began his capering,jumping over the chairs, trying to vault the tables, singing and dancing with an exuberance of delight, till, catching a sudden sight of his little spaniel Flo, he sprang through the open window into the garden, and disappeared behind the trees of the shrubbery; but Fanny still heard his clear, ringing, silvery laughter, as he continued his games in the summer air.

Now spring up on the bar, resting on your palms, and vault over from that position with a swing of your body, without touching the ground; when you have once managed this, you can vault as high as you can reach: double-vaulting this is called.

Hereupon the crowd clapped their hands with delight, the singers shouted, the drummers thumped, and the dancers vaulted their admiration of the piety and generosity of Omaree.

Soar not on high, Nor ask who thence shall bring it down to earth; That vaulted sky Hath no such star, didst thou but know its worth.