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

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

You must remember that this is not a fashionable double ceiled and plastered air-tight house.

From Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia by Leeds, Lewis W.

It is a long, tall edifice, of the same width throughout, lighted by high windows of even size, and ceiled by graceful groups of fan vaultings of the most exquisite type.

From Stained Glass Tours in England by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock