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

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 Ryle, John Charles

And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and chains.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

The room in which she saw him was the Manor House parlour, a low ceiled apartment, with large casement windows opening out on the lawn.

From The Man Who Rose Again by Hocking, Joseph

Eighteen by twelve it was, with a ten-by-ten kitchen attached, all rough lined and ceiled.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.