This river had not always run under the vaults of Hades.
Not far away are the great vaults known as Solomon's Quarries.
Yet I wanted to penetrate farther underneath, though a chill fell upon me as soon as I came under those cellular vaults.
The writer rambled for hours through these great underground vaults and saw the holes in the stone pillars where the horses were tied.
And this once populous and happy royal residence quickly became an uninhabited ruin, which no one dared approach, for fear of the basilisk lurking in its underground vaults.
"But Lenin has issued an order to dynamite the State Bank vaults, and there is a Decree just out, ordering the private banks to open to-morrow, or we will open them ourselves!"