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vaulting 1 Noun the arrangement of ceiling vaults in a building vaulting 2 Adjective excessively confident: a vaulting ambition for the highest political office
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He looked out through the side door in time to see a pair of long legs vaulting over the picket fence. But when the time came he felt suddenly that he could accept the humiliation joyfully; and as he limped up the chancel, very small and insignificant beneath the lofty vaulting of the Cathedral, he offered consciously his deformity as a sacrifice to the God who loved him. And yet Colette's was not a hell; it could not come, without vaulting hyperbole, under the rubric of a gilded saloon; and, if it was a sin to go there, the sin was merely local and municipal. |
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