ceiled
Example Sentences
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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
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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 Fletcher, Samuel H.
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 Wright, Henrietta Christian
He stepped into the large, low ceiled, dark, cool parlor and was delighted to see a piano and some music piled on a rack.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
It was a large dining hall, oak panelled and oak ceiled.
From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James