Vaulted Sentence Examples

Darian ran to the wall of the orchard and vaulted over.

Alex vaulted the porch rail and hit the ground on the run.

Not far off are ruins probably of ancient baths, and the concrete core of a large tomb with a vaulted chamber within.

She vaulted over a low stone wall, landing with a crunch in the dead grass on the other side.

The chapel, the only remnant of the palace, is a beautiful Decorated structure with a vaulted crypt, itself above groundlevel.

The latest type of tomb is a flatly vaulted chamber approached by a horizontal or slightly inclined way, whose sides converge above.

The vaulted roof is supported by twenty Doric columns, 180 ft.

The use of the old cisterns within the walls has been almost entirely abandoned, and the water is led to basins in vaulted chambers (Taxim), from which it is distributed by underground conduits to the fountains situated in the different quarters of the city.

The cathedral, a fine basilica, of the 12th (?) century, with columns and fantastic capitals of the period, originally flat-roofed and later vaulted, with 16th-century restorations, contains the tomb of Pope John XXI., and has a Gothic campanile in black and white stone.

A few years later Ibn IJaulal (978) estimates the number of churches in the city at more than 300, and al-Mokaddasi (985) describes its cathedral, with vaulted ceiling covered with mosaics, as one of the four wonders of the world.

In all cases, therefore, where it is desired to do the work out of contact with the solid fuel, the operation of burning or heat-producing must be performed in a special fire-place or combustion chamber, the body of flame and heated gas being afterwards made to act upon the surface of the material exposed in a broad thin layer in the working bed or laboratory of the furnace by reverberation from the low vaulted roof covering the bed.

A recent photograph shows the broad, expanded maxillary alveolus and acutely vaulted hard palate.

The hand-turned wooden banisters lead the eye up the stairs to the vaulted ceiling and chandeliers at the top of the building.

Descending to the basement level, a row of massive vaulted chambers is reached, Frankish 14th century work, probably barrack accommodation.

The first floor bedroom has a vaulted ceiling and en-suite bathroom with sunken bath, turquoise resin wall tiles and contemporary glass wash basin.

The long vaulted casemates that today face the parade were known as Eighteen Gun Battery.

There are stunning sea views from the character lounge with its vaulted ceiling.

The remains are now no more than a triangular building platform, with a sand stone arch leading into a vaulted cellar.

All is vaulted in stone and the nave is tall enough to have had a clerestory, but there is blank wall here instead.

Under the chapel is a vaulted crypt, probably built for a charnel, the position being a usual one.

The garden room has Georgian style French doors offering views and leading to terrace, original polished wooden flooring and vaulted roofline.

Thus the central loggias have been cleared and now provide vaulted lobbies, while sanitary accommodation has been rationalized into specific areas.

The large vaulted kitchen, once the stables, retains its rustic charm, with the original manger now used for storage.

The original entrances, however, are the vaulted paradoses at both ends of the stage building.

In addition to the drawbridge there was a long, vaulted gate passage, 50ft long that was protected by two portcullises.

It retains a vaulted stone roof on transverse ribs that spring out of the side walls, part of the original 17thC structure.

Alex sighed, left a hasty sigil on one of the posts for Else and vaulted after him.

Rosslyn's vaulted soffit features hundreds of small stone cubes, intricately carved with mysterious symbols.

Of particular note is the striking vaulted living room with open tread spiral staircase.

The guide will show you a vaulted room full of medieval tombstones, many having the coats of arms of crusader knights.

Underneath the chapel is a 13 th century vaulted undercroft.

This brick built undercroft with its fan vaulted ceiling and mighty pillars along the whole length makes for loft-style living.

Amongst the most marked features of the change that has taken place since 1875 are the growth of religious and philanthropic establishments; the settlement of Jewish colonies from Bokhara, Yemen and Europe; the migration of Europeans, old Moslem families, and Jews from the city to the suburbs; the increased vegetation, due to the numerous gardens and improved methods of cultivation; the substitution of timber and red tiles for the vaulted stone roofs which were so characteristic of the old city; the striking want of beauty, grandeur, and harmony with their environment exhibited by most of the new buildings; and the introduction of wheeled transport, which, cutting into the soft limestone, has produced mud and dust to an extent previously unknown.

Outside this again lies a projecting semicircular bastion, which commands the entrance from the exterior of the city on the E., a winding trench approached by a pair of double gateways, which are not vaulted but covered by the gradual projection of the upper courses.

This includes two cloisters, the great cloister surrounded by the buildings essentially connected with the daily life of the monks, - the church to the south, the refectory or frater-house here as always on the side opposite to the church, and farthest removed from it, that no sound or smell of eating might penetrate its sacred precincts, to the east the dormitory, raised on a vaulted undercroft, and the chapter-house adjacent, and the lodgings of the cellarer to the west.

The archaeological museum is housed here on the ground floor; besides Roman and pre-Roman objects it contains fragments of the 9th century basilica of Santa Maria in Aurona, one of the first examples of vaulted Lombard architecture; the bas-reliefs of the ancient Porta Romana of Milan, representing the return of the Milanese in 1171 after the defeat of Barbarossa; the remains of the church of Santa Maria in Brera, the work of Balduccio da Pisa; the grandiose sepulchral monument of Bernabo Visconti formerly in the church of San Giovanni in Conca; the tomb of Regina della Scala, the wife of Bernabo; the funeral monument of the Rusca family; the great portal of the palace of Pigello Portinari, seat of the Banco Mediceo at Milan, a work of Michelozzo; a series of Renaissance sculptures, including works by Amadeo Mantegazza, Agostino Busti (surnamed Bambaia), including fragments of the tomb of Gaston de Foix.

I just managed to keep him in sight as he deftly vaulted the rickety wooden fence at the back of the house.

Rosslyn 's vaulted soffit features hundreds of small stone cubes, intricately carved with mysterious symbols.

Soane 's design includes high vaulted ceilings with his signature starfish pattern.

The lounge has a vaulted ceiling with stripped beams.

The first floor consists of a large open plan office area with an open vaulted timber roof.

The look is characterized by architectural details, such as rough-hewn beams, stone fireplaces, wide-plank floors and vaulted ceilings.

Vaulted ceilings commonly found in log cabin great rooms provide ample space for a majestic elk or deer antler chandelier.

Lyndhurst is modest by "Gilded Age" standards, although the rooms all feature vaulted ceilings, decorative moldings and other Gothic details.

Highlights of the house include the wood-paneled dining room, the second floor art gallery, and the Duchess' (Gould's daughter) bedroom with its robin's egg blue vaulted ceiling.

In some contemporary spaces, track lights are hung with rods or cables from particularly high places like vaulted or cathedral ceilings.

Dog houses featuring vaulted roofs and attractive but unnecessary architectural features such as turrets usually contain a lot of wasted space above the dog's head.

Chandeliers look terrific over dining room and pool tables and in larger areas, such as a foyer with a vaulted ceiling.

The sleek, floating appearance of fixtures makes them a perfect choice because they are easily configured to meet lighting challenges such as high cathedral or vaulted ceilings and can work around added obstructions like beams and soffits.

Upon entering the cathedral, one is struck by the massive stone nave and the huge vaulted ceiling.

The guest suites all have their own private entrance and feature such amenities as Jacuzzi tubs for two, vaulted ceilings, and entertainment centers.

The success of the show has now vaulted the series far beyond expectations.

See Sean Russell's Beneath the Vaulted Hills.

Jule vaulted to his feet and spun before a knife could catch him.

She vaulted to her feet, adrenaline flying through her.

A door opened, and Toby vaulted in without waiting for her.

Josh vaulted the fence and raced up the hill, only to stop in surprise as Alex emerged from the trees riding a horse colored enough like Ed to be his twin.

A ladder lowered, and Brady vaulted onto it, followed by Dan.

Surprise was replaced by anger and concern as he vaulted to his feet, intent on ensuring his men were safe.

They reached a small group of horses, and the boy vaulted atop one, offering his hand.

Vara nodded and vaulted atop his horse, wheeling it to face him.

All these villas can be identified with more or less certainty, the best preserved being those on the east extremity, consisting of a large number of vaulted substructures and the foundations perhaps of a Pharos (lighthouse).

The circular vaulted keep erected by Earl William Marshal (c. 1200), remains almost intact.

Three large vaulted apartments, one above the other, occupy its interior.

It consists of a nave in six bays, aisles, transepts, each with two eastern chapels, and an apse, all vaulted with simple quadripartite brick groining.

It contains four Roman Catholic churches, among which is that of St Peter and St Paul, with a vaulted roof loo ft.

The principal street runs from the south or Kandahar gate to the market in front of the citadel, and is covered in with a vaulted roof through its entire length, the shops and buildings of this bazaar being much superior to those of the other streets, and the merchants' caravanserais, several of which are spacious and well built, all opening out on this great thoroughfare.

The well-preserved amphitheatre, the subterranean parts of which below the arena are intact, with a main passage down the centre, a curved passage all round with holes for trap doors in its roof, and numerous small chambers, also with trap doors in their vaulted roofs for admitting the wild beasts, whose cages were on the other side of the curved passage, to the arena, are especially interesting.

In the centre of the tomb are two vaulted chambers, reached by a spiral passage or gallery 62 ft.

On the eastern side we find the remains of the dormitory, raised on a vaulted substructure and communicating with the south transept.

The nave (G) had double vaulted aisles on either side.

The place usually assigned to it is occupied by the vaulted substructure of the dormitory (Z).

Farther to the west, projecting beyond the line of the west front of the church, were vast vaulted apartments (SS), serving as cellars and storehouses, above which was the dormitory of the conversi.

Returning to the cloister, a vaulted passage admitted to the small cloister (I), opening from the north side of which were eight small cells, assigned to the scribes employed in copying works for the library, which was placed in the upper story, accessible by a turret staircase.

The western side of the cloister is, as usual, occupied by vaulted cellars, supporting on the upper story the dormitory of the lay brothers (8).

Parallel with the western walk is an immense vaulted substructure (U), incorrectly styled the cloisters, serving as cellars and store-rooms, and supporting the dormitory of the conversi above.

On one side of the inner court, to which a finely ornamental doorway gives access, is a large hall with a vaulted ceiling of stone, 20 ft.

It contains bathing-stairs, tanks and wells, and a great number of handsome temples, of which the finest is that of Govind Deva, a cruciform vaulted building of red sandstone, dating from 1590.

The church was originally founded in 836 by Louis the Pious, but the present Romanesque building was completed in 1208, the Gothic vaulted roof dating from 1498.

Portions of the town walls still exist, and there are also vaulted cellars constructed in the 16th and 17th centuries as hiding-places against Border freebooters.

The palace and the Upper Alhambra also contain baths, ranges of bedrooms and summerrooms, a whispering gallery and labyrinth, and vaulted sepulchres.

A columnar cave exists towards the northern side of the island, and on the eastern are the remains of a tower, with several vaulted rooms. Two springs occur and some scanty grass affords subsistence to rabbits, and, on the higher levels, to goats.

The Rathaus (town hall) of red and black glazed brick, dating from various epochs during the middle ages, is famous for its staircase, the vaulted wine cellar of the city council beneath and magnificent wood carving.

The interior is vaulted and has eight pillars, supporting double round arches.

Of these, the Tour de Constance, built by Louis IX., is the most interesting; it commands the northwestern angle of the ramparts, and contains two circular, vaulted chambers, used as prisons for Protestants after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

The remains existing within them are entirely Roman-a row of vaulted substructions, a water reservoir and a mosaic with representations of fishes.

The " megalithic " monuments of Agia Phaneromeni 1 and Hala Sultan Teke near Larnaca may perhaps be early, like the Palestinian cromlechs; but the vaulted chamber of Agia Katrina near Enkomi seems to be Mycenaean or later; and the perforated monoliths at Ktima seem to belong to oil presses of uncertain but probably not prehistoric date.

The general plan is that of a basilica with a nave and two (Gothic vaulted) aisles separated by pilasters.

The first is of the time of Henry III., a fine octagonal building, its vaulted roof supported by a slender clustered column of marble.

It was originally Norman of the 12th century, and the chancel arch and low vaulted chancel, in this style, are very fine.

The Groote Kerk of St James (15th and 16th centuries) hasafine vaulted interior, and contains some old stained glass, a carved wooden pulpit (1550), a large organ and interesting sepulchral monuments, and some escutcheons of the knights of the Golden Fleece, placed here after the chapter of 1456.

The restaurant's space is defined by hardwood and stone floors, vaulted tile ceilings and an open kitchen.

Several of the bazaars are vaulted over with brickwork, but the greater number are merely covered with flat beams which support roofs of dried leaves or branches of trees and grass.

In the Trimerellidae, for example, some of the muscles are attached to a massive or vaulted platform situated in the medio-longitudinal region of the posterior half or umbonal portion of both valves.

They are structures of solid masonry, containing vaulted rooms for the garrison, and providing a platform at the top for two or three guns, which fire over a low masonry parapet.

The portcullis gate and a tower are all that remain of it; of the abbey which was at one time the finest in Wales, there still exist the external walls, with parts of the chapel, vaulted chapter-house, refectory and abbot's house.

Within the town are two subterranean vaulted buildings in good masonry, of uncertain nature, some other remains under modern buildings, and a concrete ruin known as the "Bagni di Bacco."

Here the streets are very narrow and tortuous, some being vaulted and many covered in with planking.

Its great length (460 ft.) and the height and steepness of its vaulted cedar-wood roof (1538) are very impressive.

Its form was that of a vaulted tunnel, 100 Olympian feet in length.

In a vaulted chamber under the waves, he fights with Grendel's mother, and kills her.

As she vaulted over the fence, the cause of Brutus's excitement became obvious.

The streets of the town are narrow and vaulted and have been likened to the bewildering galleries of a coalpit.

In 1904 Dr Carton and the abbe Leynaud discovered huge Christian catacombs with several miles of subterranean galleries to which access is obtained by a small vaulted chamber.

Grabbing the saddle horn, she vaulted into the saddle and kicked the horse into a run.

In one lithe movement he vaulted the gate and bolted toward the door.

Its vaulted roof is a fine specimen of Saracenic brickwork.