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

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 Harper, Various (magazine)

The atmosphere of the room, high ceiled, close packed, was Senegambian.

From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar

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