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
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
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
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
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
