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
She had lots ob log cabin quarters, whut had de cracks daubed wid mud, an' den ceiled wid boards.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
They lived in a big, log house, but you wouldn't know it was a log house unless you went up in the attic where it wasn't ceiled.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration
The room was about twelve feet high, and was ceiled by a circular arched roof, which still remains.
From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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
