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

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)

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

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

And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and chains.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall