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 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

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 Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

A dreary place it showed as they entered, large, low ceiled, extending above the whole expanse of the square portion of the house.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles