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She had inscribed the names of the authors in her voluted handwriting, but to me the only author of this collection was my aunt.

Engines and fittings became voluted organs; the walls were pink moist flesh, pulsing regularly.

Heavy moist air stroked the eagle's feathers as he dipped a wing, curving down in a giddy voluted dive.

Columns and piers of stone support the roof; these have carved capitals, some in voluted 'Ionic' designs (83).

Pairs of people stood in the cubicles that formed the con- voluted perimeter of the hall, and a throng milled in the center, making contacts.

Lifting the voluted bronze housing, he peered here and there among the scrolls, floral hatchings, grinning imp faces which almost mischievously camouflaged the engine.

This is termed a "standard" but is not a necessary element or sine qua non of the arabesque, which term is concerned with the flowing and voluted form alone.

These debris laden clouds usually have a dark, solid appearance, often compared with the globular voluted surface of a cauliflower, and rather like the black, towering cumulus clouds that threaten thunderstorms.

As well as a comparable curved stretch of wavecrest pattern, in one of its angles it also has a single petal motif which is almost identical to that possessing voluted tendrils at Cirencester.

In later Ionic architecture, there is greater diversity in the types and numbers of mouldings and decorations, particularly around doorways, where voluted brackets sometimes occur supporting an ornamental cornice over a door, such as that at the Erechtheum.

The heart-shaped core element is on occasion omitted, the arabesque taking the form of an "S" with voluted ends, generally seen in confronted pairs, as in the mosaics of the Treasury of the Great Mosque of Damascus, Byzantine work of the 7th century.

The voluted top of the Bernini baldachin was also copied by a number of French architects, often producing structures around an altar with no actual canopy or roof, just columns arrayed in an approximate curve (a "rotunda altar"), with only an architrave and volutes above.