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
It was low ceiled, and the bending beams between the strips of whitewash were almost black.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
A moment later we were all standing in a long low ceiled chamber, into which we had been admitted by a hideous old beldame.
From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt
The house was ceiled instead of plastered, and was plainly but comfortably furnished.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
It is hard to die even in the curtained chambers of our ceiled houses, with sympathizing friends administering every possible alleviation.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
