ceiled

Example Sentences

• "1824, Richard Polwhele, "Proserpine at her Loom, from the Latin of Claudian" in Elegant Extracts from the most Eminent British Poets. Part XI. Translations. London: Charles S. Arnold, p. 186, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8R4NAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false On brazen beams the roofs supported rise, / While amber pillars of transparent dyes / Tinge, as they prop the ivory-ceiled halls, / With rich reflected light their lofty walls."
• "1885-9, John Ruskin, Praeterita, edited by Francis O'Gorman, Oxford University Press, 2012, Chapter VII, section 152, For Dr Andrews' was the Londonian chapel in its perfect type, definable as accurately as a Roman basilica,— an oblong, flat-ceiled barn, lighted by windows with semi-circular heads […]"
• "1898, Rudyard Kipling, "William the Conqueror" Part I, in The Day's Work, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm The little windows, fifteen feet up, were darkened with wasp-nests, and lizards hunted flies between the beams of the wood-ceiled roof."
• "Then the ferry-boat was delightful to the new traveller, with its long, white-ceiled passages, and its smell of wet timbers and tarred ropes."
• "The Khalifa found himself in a high-ceiled hall, ornamented with a perfection of taste, in the middle of which there was a square throne of ivory and gold upon gold feet."
• "I liked the kitchen. It was a low-ceiled cellar deep underground, very hot and drowsy with coke fumes, and lighted only by the fires, which cast black velvet shadows in the corners."