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?"
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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 Newton Marshall Hall
The school-room itself was low-walled and ceiled with oak, and filled with desks and benches that had been hacked and hewed by generations of boys.
From Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 by Henrietta Christian Wright
Its ceiled walls were painted brown and stained with many a winter's smoke.
From Louisiana by Frances Hodgson Burnett
As the machine was advanced, a trench was dug behind it, ceiled by timbers and covered with the excavated material.
From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher