ceiled

Example Sentences

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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

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

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.

Later the building was ceiled and galleries were built.

From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by Faris, John T. (John Thomson)

A moment later we were all standing in a long low ceiled chamber, into which we had been admitted by a hideous old beldame.

From First Person Paramount by Pratt, Ambrose