The new moon hung athwart the western sky, and a few fleecy clouds were chasing each other like snow-drifts across the blue vault of the night.

He wriggled slowly along the trail until he came to a big log, over which the rabbit had vaulted in a long leap, and from this log he turned back.

"Naughty little gad-about, how could you go and terrify me so, wandering in vaults with mysterious strangers, like the Countess of Rudolstadt.

How I wish you could talk, old lady!" He vaulted over the gate, and whistling to a fine collie who came bounding to meet him, walked slowly on towards the stables.

" Suiting the action to the word Frank ran with his machine, then gave a vault into the saddle, started the engine, and with a loud popping the motor-cycle began to hustle along the road at a moderately swift pace.

"What sort of a man would you make Arthur out to be, when you accuse him of robbing the wine-vault on top of a murderous assault on his sister?" "I know.

"One of my pupils always threw her triangles on the celestial vault above her head....

I know there are here and there those who will reach out and attempt to pluck from his name the glory which surrounds it, and strike with malignant fury at the honors awarded to him; yet history will declare that the remains which repose in the vault beneath the little chapel in the lovely Virginia Valley are not only those of a valorous soldier, but those of a great and good American.

She was buried in the family vault at Ashby de la Zouch.

In a vault under the edifice, there is an iron axis resting on a plate of iron, and reaching from the bottom to the top of the tower: and the whole was so ingeniously contrived, that it could easily be turned round on this axis, in so surprizing a manner, that all the smiths, carpenters, and painters of the world ought to go there, to learn the secrets of their respective trades.

As to this one key having been slipped from the rest and used to open the wine-vault for wine which nobody wanted and nobody drankthis must be classed with the other incongruities which might yet lead to my enlargement.

Then, having looked to girth and bridle, he vaulted to the saddle, and drawing sword, shouted his battle-cry fierce and loud: "Arise!

Johnson defines manage in this sense to train a horse to graceful action, and quotes Young: 'They vault from hunters to the managed steed.' Of Sir William Forbes of a later generation, Lockhart (Life of Scott, ix.

And now they pause, and the soft voices of the choir break out into sweet gushes of melody; they soar aloft, and warble along the roof, and seem to play about these lofty vaults like the pure airs of heaven.

[O'Malley descends into the vaults by an iron door.

III.The vaults below O'Malley's castle.

It is a trade, a life of robbery, that vaults through all the gradations of the climax at a leapthe dread, terrific, giant robbery, that towers among other robberies, a solitary horror, monarch of the realm.

I had as lief be in the Mohune vault as in this fearsome place, and liefer too, if half the tales men tell are true of faces that may meet one here.

But at last this was accomplished, and they entered the vault beyond the charnel, where they found Chowles and Judith Malmayns.

"Injuns!" ejaculated Dick, reining up, and vaulting out of the saddle.

He put his maimed hand on the sill and vaulted after the shattered glass.

The rehanging of the bells in 1674 led to the destruction of the beautiful groined vault within the tower, and the year 1764 saw the completion of a series of galleries all round the church.

She stretched out her clenched fists as if to defy the pillared austerities of the vaults around her.

Nightgall, seeing him stretched on the ground, apparently lifeless, chuckled with delight, and, releasing the chain that bound his leg, bent over him with the intention of carrying his body into the burial vault near the moat.

The sentry, who is Tom Hart, from our parish, saw a shape at the opening of the old vault before the keep and challenged him, when he vanished out of sight ere there was time to present a musket.