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Example sentences for "vaulted"

Lexicographically close words:
vatthu; vatu; vaudeville; vaudevilles; vault; vaulting; vaultings; vaults; vaulty; vaunt
  1. Walking to his horse, he vaulted into the saddle.

  2. He vaulted easily into the seat, saying: "I hid that mare pretty well.

  3. A low vaulted chamber, dimly lighted by a flickering old lamp.

  4. And then, to the surprise and dismay of all the rest, the two darkeys vaulted over the balustrade and dropped into the room beneath.

  5. The impatience of Inez had risen to the point of agony long before, to her intense relief, she heard in the vaulted passage the heavy step of Teresa, wearily returning from her visit to the shrine of her patron saint.

  6. Through a vaulted passage, dimly lighted, Alcala was conducted to a door in which was a grating formed of thick iron bars.

  7. I cried, awakening by my shouts the echoes of the vaulted hollows of the earth.

  8. The immense mammoth cave in Kentucky is of gigantic proportions, since its vaulted roof rises five hundred feet [1] above the level of an unfathomable lake and travellers have explored its ramifications to the extent of forty miles.

  9. Otto Liedenbrock, yielding to his nature, forgot all the circumstances of our eventful journey, forgot where we were standing, forgot the vaulted cavern which contained us.

  10. He then stuck some wooden posts in the middle of the Thames, as an impediment to Caesar, who, in the plenitude of his vaulting ambition, laid his hands on the posts and vaulted over them.

  11. Upon this he vaulted nimbly on to the steps of the throne, and, pausing before he took his seat, he cried out in a loud voice, "Do you mean what you say?

  12. Further to the east, as we shall find in due course, may be seen the low vaulted retro-choir or ambulatory of one bay.

  13. The inner roof of the three western bays of the nave aisles which had not been, like those of the other bays, vaulted in stone, were restored in wood and plaster about 1850, when the Hon.

  14. It is vaulted in stone, and the plain horseshoe arches at the end without any ribs (see illustration), are worthy of notice.

  15. Incontinently that right noble knight leaped from his steed, and again, armed as he was, vaulted on his back, and amazed the beholders by his perfect horsemanship.

  16. The ladies that led the knights joined them; the squires of honour alighted from their coursers, and the knights in good order vaulted upon them.

  17. The new knight, on leaving the hall, vaulted on his steed, and showed his skill in the management of the lance, that the admiring people might know that a cavalier had been elected for their protection.

  18. As we hear it, we think God speaks; the vaulted arches of no church are mere material; they have a voice, they tremble, they scatter fear by the might of their echoes.

  19. In those long vaulted aisles the melodies inspired by the sense of things divine are blended with a grandeur unknown before, are decked with new glory and might.

  20. Montriveau recognised the long, vaulted gallery through which he went to the parlour, and remembered the windows of the room.

  21. From the jetty we passed through a high vaulted gateway, flanked on either side by a tower, into an outer court-yard.

  22. We were pleased at our reception, and followed our host to the vaulted gate of the tower that overhung the fortress.

  23. The only opening to each was the door, over which was a latticed window reaching to the vaulted ceilings of the gallery and room.

  24. But it was plain that more time than I had realized had elapsed since I vaulted on Selinus.

  25. When he vaulted into the saddle, the brute did a little rearing, kicking and bucking, but soon quieted.

  26. Her cage was under the vaulted arcade beneath the second terrace.

  27. In the vaulted corridor we were met by Tanno, who embraced me and congratulated me, and Galen, who also embraced me and felicitated me.

  28. Hedulio reined up abruptly, leaped off, leaving me to catch his mare, and vaulted the gate.

  29. Where their floor-levels altered the two were joined by short flights of three, four or five stone steps, under a vaulted doorway, in the thick partition walls.

  30. The lad vaulted the fence handily when Selinus was not three yards from him and the brute pawed angrily at the palings and bit them viciously.

  31. The fellow vaulted into the paddock when Selinus was at its further corner.

  32. Without a word I vaulted the enclosure within two yards of Selinus.

  33. The whole, headed by the master, pass under the swords held in a vaulted manner.

  34. An Altar From the narrow deep old street you turn in under an arch to a vaulted passage that is always dark and cold.

  35. Nor was he concerned in the tidings brought forward by the youth in the golf cap, who raced the slippery decks and vaulted the prostrate forms as sure-footedly as a hurdler on a cinder track.

  36. He plunged down it, vaulted a stone wall, forced his way through a tangle of saplings, and held his breath to listen.

  37. Wax candles burn before them, from which the smoke rises up to the vaulted roof, floating about the banners in a greyish-blue mist.

  38. At length the vaulted dome over the Mahdi's grave beside the Nile bank rises above the southern horizon, and round about it are perceived the mud houses and walls of Omdurman.

  39. The walls in the frigidarium were decorated with paintings representing shady groves and dark forests; the vaulted roof was painted blue and strewn with stars, and through a small round opening the sunlight poured in.

  40. There was a cellar, probably the kind of vaulted crypt on which houses of the period were built, like Queen Mary's House in St. Andrews.

  41. For what it is worth the entry corroborates the entire destruction of the house, which would imply a mine, or powder in the vaulted cellars.

  42. The vaulted room in which the boy was kept was cold, spacious, bare and floored with stone.

  43. The Court was held in the open air, before the Dempster and the Keys of the island, assembled under the vaulted cope of heaven, and seated on the terrace of the Zonwald Hill, where of old Druid and Scald held their courts of judgment.

  44. It echoed back from the high vaulted roof with a great noise.

  45. There was a cry, wild, unrestrained--a cry of terror that seemed to swirl about the church, and from the black canopy above that hid the vaulted roof was hurled back in a thousand echoes.

  46. The hall was a long room whose length was disproportionate to its width, and whose vaulted roof was blackened by the smoke of the fire which burned in its centre.

  47. The river is here spanned by the latest of the College bridges, a single arch of stone high in air, carrying a pathway vaulted over with stone and lighted on either side by grated windows, after the fashion of the "Bridge of Sighs" at Venice.

  48. The existing monument is a vaulted canopy of the fourteenth century, and is held to be due to Alan of Walsingham.

  49. We will stop first at Prior Crauden's Chapel, a small upper room with a vaulted chamber beneath it.

  50. But underneath there was a vaulted dungeon still strong and intact.

  51. Tears follow'd, but of joy, And with loud cries the vaulted palace rang.

  52. Thus they, beneath the vaulted roof obscure Of Pluto's house, conferring mutual stood.

  53. High and cold above his head the silver crescent moon travelled dreamily across the vaulted heaven, and, as if to remind Eudaemon of her presence, cast her glittering likeness into the deep ocean's embrace, far below his feet.

  54. He mournfully placed the beautiful image in the vaulted halls of Thuisto, where he could for ever gaze on the fatal beauty that had brought such misfortune on its possessor.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vaulted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arched; bandy; concave; convex; gibbous; humpbacked; humped; hunched; vaulted