Dust everywhere, the dust that falls silently at night from the ancient wooden ceilings and painted beams of Roman palaces, the dust of centuries accumulated above and sifting for ever to the floors below.
There is something in these lofty open roofs that always seems to invite one's thoughts above them--so different from the flat ceilings of most dissenting meeting-houses, and some of our churches built a hundred years ago.
Plastered ceilings and a lavish use of glass made rooms lighter and cozy.
Suspicious stains on walls and ceilingswarned him of leaks, but he had to wait for a rain to locate them.
Nor was it quite dispelled when he lighted a pipe and they started to explore their Eden, wandering through chambers with, low ceilings in the old part of the house, and larger, higher apartments in the portion that was called new.
He seemed very majestic and out of place in the little house which Gabriel Post had built, and he carried into it some of the atmosphere of the walnut and high ceilings of his own mansion.
Turning in the doorway, he saw to his astonishment a great store, with high ceilings supported by columns.
He declaimed so loudly against the tyranny of quartering troops upon a peaceable state that our exhausted neighbours were driven to pounding their walls and ceilings for peace.
Within, solemnity reigned, and this effect was largely produced by the prodigiously high ceilings and the black walnut doors and woodwork.
Paper ceilings had been put in to prevent the dust falling through from the tiled roof above; but the sun would shine through this as well as the tiles quite brilliantly at times.
There was to be any amount of beaten gold for doors and pillars; and the ceilings were to be of milk-white opals, with a rosy light which comes and goes.
In connexion with the smaller amount of heat developed per unit of light when acetylene is the illuminant, the frequently exaggerated claim that acetylene does not blacken ceilings at all may be studied.
Additional power--public and private--is needed to raise the ceilings now imposed by power shortages on industrial and agricultural development.
Space and money are not spared, and to obtain coolness and comfort in so hot a climate, the ceilings of rooms are made very high, few of the houses having more than two stories.
The end-vestibules have curved roofs with highly ornamented ceilings of a succession of flat domes along the centres, with three rows of deep soffits on each side, gayly painted.
The ceilings are very low, the partitions are thin, the rooms are all next door to each other; the place is a good deal like an American "cottage" by the seaside.
The depots are vast palaces of cut marble, with stately colonnades of the same royal stone traversing them from end to end, and with ample walls and ceilings richly decorated with frescoes.
Even the floors and ceilings cost a princely fortune.
This method affords an easy and elegant method of giving a stony crust to the plastered walls and ceilings of apartments; as also to statues and busts cast in gypsum mixed with chalk.
The keeper of a common lodging-house shall, to the satisfaction of the local authority, limewash the walls and ceilings thereof in the first week of each of the months of April and October in every year.
As a first step it assigned eight Negroes to Recruitment Procurement School and subsequently to recruit duty in eight major cities with further such assignments planned when current manpower ceilings were lifted.
The reduced manpower ceilings imposed on the Navy, even during the Korean War, had caused a drastic curtailment in recruiting.
Our Figure 286 will give some idea of the variety of motives to be found upon the panels and ceilings of the tombs and other buildings at Thebes.
The ceilings of the temples at Thebes had generally a blue ground, upon which vultures with their great wings outspread, floated among golden stars (Figs.
The ceilings of the larger rooms were of indigenous or foreign wood; the smaller rooms were often vaulted.
The ceilings were covered with what we call arabesques and interlacing ornaments of all kinds, while the floors were strewn with mats woven of many-coloured reeds.
In order thoroughly to understand all these intermediary types we must return to the rock-cut tombs, in which the ceilings were upheld by piers left standing when the excavation was made.
These are chambers cut in the rock, in which the roofs are carved into imitations of timber ceilings of palm wood.
Oriental cabinetmakers to this day ornament ceilings and wainscots in the same fashion.
Here, the Bee is making use of a tube whose diameter is not suited to her work; she is constructing a complex and difficult edifice, which perhaps would not possess the necessary solidity if the ceilingswere too broad.
The Osmia therefore supports these ceilings with longitudinal partitions; and the unequal chambers resulting from the introduction of these partitions receive females at one time and males at another, according to their capacity.
With the upright position of the reeds, the stopper of the opening would receive the rain and would become diluted; the ceilings of the storeys would fall in and the family would perish by drowning.
Last January, however, the Congress passed a law forbidding ceilings on farm prices below 110 percent of parity on some commodities.
Since last May, ceilings have been set on nearly all commodities, rents services, except the exempted farm products.
Ceilings are being placed on the prices at which you can sell your goods or rent your property.
Wherever we find that price ceilings are being violated, the violators will be punished.
I have recommended that in addition to putting ceilingson all farm products now, we also place a definite floor under those prices for a period beginning now, continuing through the war, and for as long as necessary after the war.
It will be remembered that the room and cabinet were carpeted with a dark carpet, and that the ceilings were of wood.
The ceilings were decorated by being put on in panels.
The fireplaces and the ceilings are magnificent; they look like expensive "sets" at the grand opera.
If, when he looked at the ceilings of his mansion, he saw his boats upside down, this was only a suggestion of the shortest way of emptying them of their treasures.
How can we attribute taste to a woman who permits paper floors and iron ceilings in her house?
If you have a simple little house with simple furnishings, be content to have your ceilings tinted a warm cream, keep them always clean.
This is a most daring assumption, because there are so many feeble and threatening ceilings overhanging most of us that good ones seem rare.
When all these things are settled--floors and ceilings and woodwork--you may begin to plan your wall coverings.
It may be a beautiful expanse of creamy modeled plaster resting on a distinguished cornice, or it may be one of those ghastly skim-milk ceilings with distorted cupids and roses in relief.
We will assume that the ceilings are proper ceilings; that they will stay in their place, i.
This great artist did not merely provide cartoons for tapestry; he decorated the ceilings of the halls of the château with allegorical paintings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceilings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
