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
The prisoners' room was ceiled with pine boards.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
The children stared at the ceiled arch overhead, and wondered if it would cave in while they had to wait for a train.
From The Little Washingtons' Travels by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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
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
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