ceiled
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From a wall, one group draped a biblical quotation: "Is it time for you, O Ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lie waste?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The cabin was low ceiled and as she had sat looking up at him he had towered above her until he seemed to fill it.
From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Cyrus Townsend Brady
Timidly she turned the knob, and entered a large room, spacious and high ceiled, with Turkish rugs on the inlaid floor, leather chairs, and mahogany desks.
From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill
The great halls of the Ducal Palace at Venice and the galleries of the Pitti Palace at Florence were ceiled in this way.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
There is as much misery riding and driving about in carriages as there is walking about on foot: there is as much unhappiness in ceiled houses as in humble cottages.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle
