voluted

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I am struck once more by the majestic air of that opening square of Frascati, expanding upwards into terraces, lawns, and ilexes, all flanked by pinnacled and voluted buildings, Villa Aldobrandini, or whatever it is.

From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon

It closed no lantern--it obstructed no view--and its light ribs, springing from voluted corbels, bore at each intersection, an emblazoned escutcheon, or painted heraldic device.

From A Love Story by A Bushman

The heavily voluted cumulus clouds lower gloomily and threateningly; they wear that implacable look which I have sometimes noticed at the outbreak of a great storm.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules

She took him into the parlour, where he was set down among strange voluted foreign shells with a pink flush within the wide mouth of every one of them.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Tomaso pointed a slender, brown finger at a circular heading, whereon a pink aeroplane did a "nose dive" toward the date line through voluted blue clouds.

From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto