How To Use Vaulting In A Sentence
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It is characterized by heavy, load-bearing masonry, the round-headed arch and its derivatives, the groin, and barrel vaulting.
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Originally, the small church was equipped by elaborate vaulting and plasterwork, and the pavement was covered by tiles.
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Without vaulting or trusses, Yemeni traditional architecture had to rely on the usable length of palm, acacia or tamarisk trunks for spans.
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The man fled, vaulting a ticket barrier and sprinting for the platform.
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arches and vaulting
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Fourteen columns of colored marble sustain a domed ceiling of gilded cedar, with an exterior deambulatory under a tunnel-vaulting also roofed with cedar.
In Morocco
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Officers followed Weldrick's Alfa Romeo car to the middle of the Humber Bridge where it stopped and the driver was seen vaulting the safety railings before jumping off the bridge.
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In the States years ago and long before anyone ever heard of adjustable cables, a small version of the vaulting horse was called the buck.
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A bold and ingenious treatment of the vaulting shaft of the tower groining is used on these piers; on the western ones the shafts stop upon the ends of the hood moulding.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
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At the top of the spiral staircase is the “Homme au panier,” a statue 4 feet 6 inches in height, on a pedestal at the topmost step, representing a manciple or serving-man bearing a basket on his right shoulder, out of which spring, like so many stems of wheat, nearly a score of vaulting ribs for the roof that closes in the staircase.
The South of France—East Half
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A note in one of Leonardo's manuscripts speaks of twenty-four Roman subjects, probably small decorative groups in _camaieu_, painted on the vaulting of these rooms, and gives the exact cost of the blue, gold, and enamel employed, but all trace of these decorations has vanished.
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
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Then there are fantastically expensive acquisitions, the vaulting loans.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vaulting the stile, he headed diagonally across the paddock.
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After "Little Big Man" in 1971, Mr. Penn fell into something of a creative slough, his only output a short documentary on pole-vaulting at the 1972 Olympic Games.
Interest in Outsiders Drove Versatile Director of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
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Both have 'lierne' vaults [_i. e._, vaults in which short transverse ribs or 'liernes' are mixed with the ribs that branch from the vaulting capitals], and in both the triforium is obtained by prolonging the clerestory windows downward, and making panels of the lower lights, which panels have a plain opening cut through them, by which the triforium space communicates with the passage over the roof of the side-aisles.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
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Above the triforium is the clerestory, which contains one light to each sub-bay, and surmounting all is the vaulting, which springs from the piers and from grotesquely carved corbels between the triforium arches.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
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The altar in its entirety constituted the true tabernacle of the Most High, who assuredly could not dwell sub divo without a special roof of his own under the lofty vaulting of the naos. (p. 163)
An Irish Ciborium and the Ciborium Generally
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When more complex vaulting occurs - as in the Lady Chapel at Hertogenbosch or the Nassau Chapel at Breda - it is an emphatic sign of elevated status.
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If someone comes in in a wheelchair and you're hiring for a pole-vaulting position, then you can ask, 'Exactly how do you see this working for you?'
What To Reveal During Your Job Search
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The vaulting horse is a difficult piece of apparatus to master.
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The new building resembled a mediaeval cathedral with its pointed arches, ribbed vaulting and flying buttresses.
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Abidan, unarmed, seized a poniard from the soldier’s belt, stabbed him to the heart, and vaulting on the steed, galloped towards the river.
Chapter 7 - Part IX
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He had tried to rob the off-licence on Swinley Lane, Wigan, waving the sword at the woman assistant before vaulting the counter, only to find he couldn't open the till.
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In the high end of black industry catenary , these are giant " fryer " computer group the person that control built likewise giant dark vaulting horse is Caesarean.
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St. Paul's, London, the architect had shown that domical vaulting is possible even when the bays of nave or aisles are not square, but pronouncedly oblong.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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The lierne vaulting of the vestibule is very delicate (the ribs, it will be noted, are run differently in the four quarters of the roof), and the pendants form a cross.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
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The vaulting horse is a difficult piece of apparatus to master.
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After the explosion nothing of the walls or vaulting remained intact.
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The extreme sport involves vaulting between roofs and off lampposts.
Times, Sunday Times
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This included vaulting, which was more durable than the more primitive, earlier building methods.
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I picked up speed, making for the trees, vaulting a fence, catching my foot and falling flat on my face with a jolt that knocked the wind out of me.
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Programs will be offered in dressage, eventing, showing, jumping, mounted games, tetrathlons, quizzes, vaulting, fox hunting, and polocrosse.
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DJNoNo – 12 Vaulting Hippos (Pendulum vs Gayle Peevey) ebn ozn – rockin robin
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That gymnastics vaulting horse brought back painful memories of school.
The Sun
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But now let us talk of scammony, 'he added, vaulting on the counter, and seating himself by the side of Darkush;' one might get more by arranging this visit to your mountains than by enjoying an appalto of all its gums, friend Darkush; but if it cannot be, it cannot be. '
Tancred Or, The New Crusade
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The Camden Society were brought in after part of the ambulatory vaulting had collapsed.
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The bridge took them into the Ilongo district, which was made up of small box-like buildings, two or three storeys high with vaulting lierne roofs, and walls which often leaned away from perpendicular.
The Dreaming Void
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In his silent films, Keaton did all his own stuntwork, with only one exception: For a pole-vaulting shot in “College,” he hired Olympic pole vaulter Lee Barnes to do the stunt.
Buster Keaton: Is this the greatest stuntman of all time? | EW.com
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Such vaulting success would be the dream of any young British actress.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a huge filmed image grafted onto a pole-vaulting athlete or a pirouetting Anna Pavlova.
The Sweet Smell of Success
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We are all quite accustomed to seeing the Duomo of Milan or the Basilica of St. Ambrose, but here is another Milanese church which I photographed last year, which is noteworthy for its architecture both exteriorly and interiorly -- in the case of the latter, most particularly for its painted vaulting.
Architecture of Catholic Milan
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A dozen of them ran in, vaulting the ticket barriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Workplaces are full of people who incubate pointless envy, who nurse rivalries, who are unembarrassed to exhibit ludicrously vaulting ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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The substructure was a fine building, 148 feet by 78 feet; the vaulting was, as described by Professor Willis, "of the earliest kind; constructed of light tufa, having no transverse ribs, and retaining the impressions of the rough, boarded centring upon which they had been formed.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
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That gymnastics vaulting horse brought back painful memories of school.
The Sun
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French pole vaulting champion has run naked with his pole through the streets of Paris and posted the video on the Internet, hoping to draw attention to his quest for a new sponsorship deal.
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I looked under their vaulting horse.
Times, Sunday Times
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The photos depict women participating in every sport from ping-pong to pole-vaulting, from hunting to hardball.
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Get him a vaulting pole and mat, he won't clear this.
The Sun
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For vaulting, they will learn hurdling and landing skills on matting blocks.
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* Previously: Prison offers inmates pole-vaulting lessons.
Prison Break cake (link roundup)
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Parler's hallmarks lay in decoration: vaulting and sculpture poured from his workshops.
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On the continent, Bonaparte's vaulting ambition imposed such a degree of overexertion that every success he gained served only to make his eventual collapse more certain.
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After the explosion nothing of the walls or vaulting remained intact.
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Above the clifftop soared the seabirds, pearly, dreamlike, their wings carving scimitar arcs into the vaulting sky.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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The vaulting horse is a difficult piece of apparatus to master.
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It is all the more interesting that Eichstatt Cathedral houses one of the earliest examples of branch work in German vaulting.
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After a few successful clearances I finally knocked the bar down and asked her how she was enjoying pole vaulting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Normans used three styles of vaulting: barrel, rib and cross.
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The fiery Frenchman hit the headlines when he was filmed vaulting a barrier and delivering a kung fu-style kick to a Crystal Palace supporter who was taking delight in his sending-off for a foul.
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The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery.
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Two PoWs in a German camp try to escape by using a vaulting horse to cover up the tunnel they are digging.
The Sun
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The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery.
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Nevertheless many craftsmen, and Michelagnolo in particular, have been of the opinion that the Ritonda was built by three architects, of whom the first carried it as far as the cornice that is above the columns, and the second from the cornice upwards, the part, namely, that contains those windows of more graceful workmanship, for in truth this second part is very different in manner from the part below, since the vaulting was carried out without any relation between the coffering and the straight lines of what is below.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
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The demonstration that included silambam (stick play), rope malkhamp, trampoline and vaulting horse was just a specimen of their dauntless activities.
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All the elements of the theatrical cycle of tragedy are there: over-vaulting ambition, blindness to reality, a hard, harsh landing.
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There were piles of the stuff - crumbly sand with a demerara-sugar like texture and just enough moisture to hold together curving walls and vaulting floors.
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The room was empty, now, allowing her footsteps to echo overhead from the intricate lierne vaulting with the wavelike, sweeping ribs.
Stone of Tears
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The Gothic style of cross vaulting was an unusual choice, set against the Italianate style of the station building.
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Vaulting into mats stacked in the pit, the French gymnasts attempted several difficult vaults.
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The Academy loves big, bold movies with vast emotional scope and vaulting cinematic ambitions.
Times, Sunday Times
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China were now second, and with the vaulting horse before them, they took wing.
Times, Sunday Times
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A fractured bone in her foot restricted Pam to tumbling and vaulting only once a week leading up to the competition.
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As they reached his ears through the heavy stone roof they were more harmonious, all harshness was softened; the _sordino_ of the vaulting produced the effect of a muffled peal.
The Nebuly Coat
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Perpendicular work with a splendid roof of lierne vaulting.
Beautiful Britain: Canterbury
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The man seen vaulting the ticket barrier was probably a policeman.
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The altar in its entirety constituted the true tabernacle of the Most High, who assuredly could not dwell sub divo without a special roof of his own under the lofty vaulting of the naos. (p. 163)
An Irish Ciborium and the Ciborium Generally
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The brick vaulting of the wine shop and restaurant dates from the 18th Century when the famous Gallwey family owned the building and operated it as a bonded warehouse.
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It will be noticed how the cable moulding above the arches passes round some of the western vaulting shafts, and is cut away for those at the eastmost end of the nave.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
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If you had not become successful at pole vaulting, what would you be doing now?
Times, Sunday Times
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Davis showed surprising athletic ability, vaulting a courtside advertising board while pursuing a rebound.
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Pole vaulting is very technical and stuff like where the wind comes from is crucial.
The Sun
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This spacious apartment owes the form of its curious floor to the vaulting of the lantern-space in the time of Sir Guy de Brien, whose arms are found in the lierne-vaulting which supports the floor.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
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That gymnastics vaulting horse brought back painful memories of school.
The Sun
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The central boss, tying together the ribs of the vaulting, is carved with a double Green Man, the two faces looking in opposite directions.
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Two other _Side Chapels_ deserve to be mentioned, viz. the two eastmost on the north side, which were the first roofed with lierne vaulting.
A Short Account of King's College Chapel
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With the Senators seemingly moments away from a victory in their final game, hordes of fans began vaulting over the retaining walls and proceeded to swarm the playing field.
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vaulting ambition
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They were told that an accident in the tower, where two men had been working, had resulted in the partial collapse of some of the vaulting above the knave, just after Evensong had finished at 6.15 pm on Monday.
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This was costly to construct, flamboyant, and characterized by ogee arches, flowing and inventive window tracery, and lighter vaulting.
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Infilling the extrados of the vaulting using stabilized cement mortar should also be carried out in such a way as to ensure a correct balance of the post-compression which will finally stabilize the vaulting.
Chapter 7
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Born in Thirsk in 192, he excelled early in a variety of sports, and became a champion in boxing, high diving, and pole vaulting.
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In the latter case, Gothic evolved from Romanesque vaulting (modelled on Roman precedent) following brilliant experiments in the eleventh century.
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The Dean of Lismore gave a guided tour of the medieval cathedral with its splendid Tudor monument, Gothic vaulting and some elegant memorials.
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He also took gymnastics for a few years and can do a back flip on skates, partly as a result of his pole-vaulting experience.
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He sacrificed his marriage to his vaulting political ambition.
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In 1943, he came up with the idea of using a vaulting horse placed near the camp wire to conceal the construction of a short tunnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new building resembled a mediaeval cathedral with its pointed arches, ribbed vaulting and flying buttresses.
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The central boss, tying together the ribs of the vaulting, is carved with a double Green Man, the two faces looking in opposite directions.
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The vaulting, windows, and doorways had the form of the round arch, that is, a semicircle, as in the ancient Roman monuments.
Early European History
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Running down the path, vaulting the little gate leading into the shrubberies, and dashing down a back way almost dark with the thick laurel-bushes overhead, he soon reached what was known as the postern door.
Chatterbox, 1906
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But the man fled, vaulting a ticket barrier and sprinting for the platform.
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She'd landed on her bottom, legs akimbo, and her long red ringlets of hair had flopped forward, vaulting the crown of her head to hide her eyes.
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Aaron Yerk, a junior from Belvidere, Ill., who came to Ashford on a pole-vaulting scholarship, was similarly astounded to find out that there was an online school roughly 100 times the size of his student body.
Buying Legitimacy: How A Group Of California Executives Built An Online College Empire
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The extreme sport involves vaulting between roofs and off lampposts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though Dmitry Kasperovich is suffering from an injured leg, he continued vaulting until he successfully completed a handspring double front-half and Tsukahara double back.
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Even the layman can coo over the magnificent ribbed vaulting, an 11 th-century innovation that had European architects squirming with envy.
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Two other _Side Chapels_ deserve to be mentioned, viz. the two eastmost on the north side, which were the first roofed with lierne vaulting.
A Short Account of King's College Chapel
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Other facets of Mr Bush's personality mixed with his vaulting ambition to undermine his presidency.
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Flax fiber went out of vogue in the United States when the cotton gin was introduced, vaulting cotton ahead of one of the first crops domesticated by man.
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Electronic vaulting electronically transmits data either to direct access storage, an optical disc or another storage medium. This is a method used by banks.
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According to the pole-vaulting textbook, a pole parallel to the ground is used which is then planted into a box sunk below ground level.
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If you want to get noticed tell people you are off to try pole vaulting.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was staring up at the panels of the vaulting, relishing the beauty of the color scheme, the gold rosettes brilliant against the deep blue of the soffits, set off by the red of the coffering.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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China's Cheng Fei won a bronze medal in the women's vaulting horse of the Beijing Olympics.
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It is precisely the bill's vaulting ambition that makes many critics jittery.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sacrificed his marriage to his vaulting political ambition.
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The vaulting is lierne vaulting, with short ribs, which connect the main ribs together.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
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Thus, for example, while ‘brick houses’ or ‘timber - framed houses’ may indeed be found, ‘moats,’ ‘donjons,’ ‘cruck vaulting,’ or ‘keeps’ - all of which are discussed at several points in the text - cannot.
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But rarely has a venue of such modest proportions been required to contain a performance of such vaulting populist ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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The development of fan-vaulting had led to the adoption of a new form of arch, the four-centred or _Tudor arch_ (Fig. 133), to fit under the depressed apex of the vault.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
