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

The house was ceiled instead of plastered, and was plainly but comfortably furnished.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.

The room in which she saw him was the Manor House parlour, a low ceiled apartment, with large casement windows opening out on the lawn.

From The Man Who Rose Again by Hocking, Joseph

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