The pillars that support these arches are well proportioned: the sculptures on their capitals are scarcely less grotesque than those at St. Georges; but, barbarous as they are, the corners of almost every capital are finished with imitations, more or less obvious, of the classical Ionic volute.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
The upper part of her cut-water was fashioned into a scroll, like the volute of an Ionic pillar, forming what is called, by naval architects, a "billet head;" and which, for its neatness and beauty, is very generally adopted, both in national vessels and merchantmen.
"An Old Sailor's Yarns"
Nathaniel Ames
It is a volute to which the brain conceives no limits.
"The Life of the Spider"
J. Henri Fabre