Vaults
[vɔ:lts]
Examples
- I saw her laid low in her kindred vaults, And her immortal part with angels lives. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There's doors under the church in the Square--black doors, leading into black vaults. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay, and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In the ivory storage vaults of one large company, there is held from $150,000 to $300,000 worth of ivory, ranging from the tusk up to the finished product. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He entered the churches, and foretold to the congregations their speedy removal to the vaults below. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I see, said he, thou dreamest already that our men-at-arms are in thy refectory and thy ale-vaults. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The delicate little skeletons were lying in broken vaults and had their household gods and kitchen utensils with them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Quentin