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Example sentences for "ceiled"

Lexicographically close words:
cedula; cedulas; ceevil; ceiba; ceibas; ceiling; ceilinged; ceilings; ceinture; ceive
  1. One may imagine the dismay of poor Mrs. Clemm when she read this letter and looked around the humble home with its low-ceiled upstairs room, which had been Virginia's; the pine kitchen table and her dozen pieces of crockery.

  2. This is a noble Gothic apartment, some sixty feet long by thirty feet in width, ceiled with panelled oak.

  3. The exiles took to building their own ceiled houses, and let the House of God lie waste.

  4. They had built for themselves 'ceiled houses,' and were engrossed with their farms.

  5. And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.

  6. Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate?

  7. It was not only the most private, but also the most delightful room in the house--ceiled with blue and carpeted with green.

  8. The lady entered and found herself within a low ceiled room, where a knight was sleeping on a pallet.

  9. This proved to be her own bedroom--a bright, high-ceiled apartment decorated and furnished in old French fashion and possessing two large windows, looking upon Hyde Park.

  10. Henrietta wondered, as the woman conducted her along several low-ceiled passages, and up and down odd stairs, and past windows which disclosed the hill rising immediately at the back of the house, what the landlady wanted.

  11. He could be seen within the low-ceiled room, sitting stupidly on a bench, watching with dull, lack-luster eyes the passing of the troops whose retreat would give his ripe grain over to be the spoil of the enemy.

  12. Presently the fire took hold in the straw, and from the straw to the bed, and from the bed to the loft, which was planked and ceiled with fir, after the fashion of the foot of a lamp.

  13. He ceiled de house wid pine logs, made beds and tables out of pine poles, and dey lived in dis cave seven years.

  14. A part of the tall headboard had been removed so the bed could be used in a low-ceiled room.

  15. The walls of the low-ceiled room are hung with the inimitable caricatures by Leandre and with sketches by celebrated artists.

  16. Tranchard was now on his knees fanning a pile of fagots into a blaze, the acrid smoke drifting back into the low-ceiled room.

  17. The next moment you have crossed his threshold and entered a square, low-ceiled room that for over forty years has served Monsieur le Maire as living room, kitchen, and executive chamber.

  18. The young man's study was visible down the vista of a series of low-ceiled apartments, and Shelby saw that it was crammed with books.

  19. Hardly a score had gathered in the low-ceiled schoolhouse, fetid with reeking kerosene lamps and wilting humanity; and of this beggarly handful two-thirds were women.

  20. The walls were partially ceiled with thin strips of wood, nicely fitted and finished, partially plastered and the rest covered with a fine, woven cloth.

  21. The principal doorways appeared to be in the roofs, and it was through one of these that Bradley was inducted into the dark interior of a low-ceiled room.

  22. I found myself in a high-ceiled room, at one end of which was suspended a row of perhaps a dozen lamps.

  23. Then this word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet: Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your own ceiled houses, while this temple lies in ruins?

  24. Its roof was wholly of cedar wood, probably brought from the distant Lebanon, and its walls appear to have been ceiled or adorned with stucco, as were those of Solomon's temple.

  25. Ceiled inside of studs with two thicknesses of half-inch lumber with paper between.

  26. Descending, I passed a giant in moleskins who filled the low-ceiled tap-room.

  27. The little windows, fifteen feet up, were darkened with wasp-nests, and lizards hunted flies between the beams of the wood-ceiled roof.

  28. At the door of a great, high-ceiled room the butler paused, holding back the soft drapery with austere hand.

  29. We walked across the dark platform, which led to another low-ceiled room.

  30. In the center of a low-ceiled apartment sat an old man with a black-silk handkerchief tied about his head, the few gray hairs that escaped from its folds relieving his gamboge-colored face.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceiled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.