1889 examples of vaulted in sentences

There was a small organ, suited in size to the vaulted hollow, which it weekly filled with religious sound.

Steinmetz placed one hand on the table and, despite his weight, vaulted it cleanly.

Steinmetz vaulted right on to him, and De Chauxville staggered back.

The vaulted roof, with the curious wooden groins, and the ancient bénitier near the door, are worthy of inspection.

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.

Mr. Van Torp did not take the trouble to put his foot into the stirrup, but vaulted from the ground with no apparent effort.

and all the thousand dies, That deck thy progress through the vaulted skies!

The floor was laid with tiles of dark blue veined with white; pilasters of twisted silver stood out against the blue walls; the clearstory of round-arched windows above them was hung with azure silk; the vaulted ceiling was a pavement of sapphires, like the body of heaven in its clearness, sown with silver stars.

There one day I sat reading over the latest list of horrors, when I heard a loud cry from the vaulted chamber.

For this purpose he had pushed aside his scaffold, and here we saw a perspective done on the ceiling in charcoal, representing a vaulted roof with an opening to the sky in the middle, surrounded by a little balcony with trailing plants running over it, and flowers peeping out betwixt the balusters.

He made it to appear that the lower part of his vaulted roof was wainscoted in the style of the walls, and to such perfection that 'twould have puzzled a conjurer to decide where the oaken panels ended and the painted ones began.

Shades of fair ones, in the aisle Vaulted the castle cliffs below, To nothing mouldered, one and all, Ages long ago!

It was dug vaulted fashion, and the body deposited there upon the evening of the day of death.

They again strike the vaulted roof.

Within, its vaulted roof is so noble, its proportions so satisfying.

On rode the train through the lovely country, over the smooth greensward, and under the vaulted screen of branches.

The Jews, having quite exhausted their barbarity, shut Jesus up in a little vaulted prison, the remains of which subsist to this day.

He vaulted from his bicycle suddenly, as they were bowling past a little gray house set in weeds, and the others, looking back, saw him carrying a dripping pail of water along the path to the kitchen doorsteps.

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.

It has its shadows, I do not doubt, this Silent Isle; but to-day at least it is all still and translucent as its clear-moving quiet waters, free as its vaulted sky, rich as its endless plain.

The next moment a dark form vaulted the railings that fenced the avenue on that side, sprang on the affrighted tutor, and, seizing him violently by the collar, shook him to and fro as a terrier shakes a rat.

Vast libraries are the vaulted catacombs of modern times, in which the dead past is laid away, and the living present takes refuge.

Never were the vaulted spaces in this grand old temple of a world swept so clean of cobwebs before.

They were always accompanied by several pairs of these sanctified attendants; and when it became necessary to change their bearers, the king and queen vaulted on to the shoulders of their new bearers without letting their feet touch the ground.

Dammy, Peter, hold your tongue, sir!" Dorothy, wearing the lilac spray, vaulted lightly into her saddle, and I mounted my mare.

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