Literary notes about Vaulted (AI summary)
The term "vaulted" is deployed to evoke a sense of height and grandeur, whether describing soaring architectural spaces or movements that suggest leaping beyond ordinary bounds. In many works, it vividly characterizes majestic ceilings, domes, and arches—instantly conjuring the sacred or the monumental ([1], [2], [3]). At other times, it functions dynamically to depict physical prowess or agile motion, as when characters vault over obstacles or barriers ([4], [5]). There is also a poetic quality to the term, with phrases like a "vaulted sky" or a "vaulted chamber" imbuing the scene with an almost otherworldly, expansive feel that deepens the narrative’s atmosphere ([6], [7], [8]).
- The king's kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at top, and about six hundred feet high.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift - It consists of vaulted terraces, raised one above another, and resting upon cube-shaped pillars.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) by Strabo - All the existing abbeys and cathedrals of this period had wooden ceilings or were, like Durham, Norwich, and Gloucester, vaulted at a later date.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - So saying, he hastened away, vaulted on his horse, and with a gesture as if he gave me his hand to kiss, bade me another laughing adieu.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Then, seeing his efforts were useless, he ran along the veranda, vaulted the end, and went to hammer at the side door.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. Wells - In characters like flame upon the vaulted sky, Far from oblivion's reach or an effacing shade.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo - and he laughed in his frenzy till the vaulted roof rang again.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott - Wake: the vaulted shadow shatters, Trampled to the floor it spanned,
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
