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

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 Fletcher, Samuel H.

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

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

The great halls of the Ducal Palace at Venice and the galleries of the Pitti Palace at Florence were ceiled in this way.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various