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Vault

noun

A burial chamber (usually underground). Synonym: burial vault.

A strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables. Synonym: bank vault.

An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof.

The act of jumping over an obstacle. Synonym: hurdle.

verb

(past & past part. vaulted; pres. part. vaulting)

Jump across or leap over (an obstacle). Synonym: overleap.

Bound vigorously.

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"Vault" Quotes from Famous Books

... figure until it disappeared forever from his sight; and then he listened to his retreating footsteps until they grew faint and more faint, and all hope was lost! An hour of mortal agony went by; the sun sank slowly to rest, and a few stars brightened the sapphire vault above him. Suddenly a red glow brightened the heavens, and gilded the dark waters of the Rhine— that Rhine which he had so incarnadined with blood! Avenging God! It was the fire himself had kindled! It leaped up from every point of Speier—and now—now the cathedral ...

— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach

... church; he found it open; notice of the arrival of the funeral had been given, and the vault in which the body was to be laid had been opened. The sexton, on seeing a well-dressed gentleman, whose object was to attend the expected obsequies, pacing the aisle of the church, hospitably invited him to share with him ...

— J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... history, it is mentioned, that a vault being opened in Spain, they found there Moors' heads, and some writings that did express, when people resembling those heads should come into Spain, they would conquer that country; and it was so. See this story more at ...

— Miscellanies upon Various Subjects • John Aubrey

... is in the tree But they are silent;—still they roll along Immeasurably distant; & the vault Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds ...

— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

... debris when it was the throbbing metropolis of a world. The self-same moon that looks so peacefully down smiled on the midnight tryst in Nippur's scented groves or Babylon's hanging gardens; the same stars that now fret Heaven's black vault with astral fire winked and blinked 11,000 years ago while the sandaled feet of youth, on polished cedar floors, beat out the rhythmic passion of its blood. There too were the Heaven of requited love and the Hell of breaking hearts; there too were women beauteous as the dawn and ambitious ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

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