She led the way into the house and they followed her through a big, low-raftered living-room and up a flight of slippery oak stairs.
Faint daylight was still filling the house, but everywhere the lamps had been lighted, and the mellow double illumination gave a curious softening effect to the old raftered ceilings and panelled walls.
The going was, for the first hour, over rough, raftered ice.
The ice commenced to rafter under us, but we got across safely with our loads, and started east again, for two miles; when we found ourselves on an island of ice completely surrounded by the heavyraftered ice.
We could not go on until either the lead had frozen or until it had raftered shut.
The foregoing was written while out on the ice of the Arctic Ocean, just after crossing the raftered hummocks of the ice of the Big Lead.
Soon after we were at supper in the kitchen, with its low, dark, raftered ceiling from which substantial hams and flitches of bacon were hanging.
The rain had ceased, and the old, low-raftered room was full of sunshine which danced on the shining dishes of the dresser, made mosaics on the floor, and flickered over the table whereon a delicious meal was spread.
There was silence in the little, low raftered room after that, a silence only broken by the buzzing of flies against the white globe of the lamp, and by the snores of the sleepers who sprawled across the tables.
And when the final whispered Amen ceased to echo in the low, raftered room, Pater Bonifácius laid his hand upon the child's head in a gesture of unspoken benediction.
She had lighted the oil lamp which hung from the centre of the low, raftered ceiling, the hour was getting late, customers were all leaving now one by one.
Her small raftered room was invaded by the last stormy light of the autumn evening.
Then, as she turned back to the white-walled raftered room with its bright fire, she was seized with the pleasantness of this place which was now her home.
Again Marvin, who was still pioneering the trail, gave us a fair march of fifteen miles or more, at first over heavy and much-raftered ice, then over floes of greater size and more level surface.
Finally we came upon Bartlett's camp in a maze of small pieces of very heavy old floes raftered in every direction.
At first there was a continuation of the broken and raftered ice, sharp and jagged, that at times seemed almost to cut through our sealskin kamiks and hareskin stockings, to pierce our feet.
Its tap-room with raftered ceiling and cage-like bar with swinging gate is a picturesque room, and is one of the few old tap-rooms left unaltered in New England.
The clumsy sounding-board was usually hung by a slight iron rod, which looked smaller still as it stretched up to the high, raftered roof, and always appeared to be entirely insufficient to sustain the great weight of the heavy machine.
Why, they were English eggs, served at dawn in an English inn--a stone-floored raftered room with a starling hanging in a little cage of withes outside the latticed window.
The linen and glassware and silver of the Caravanserai were almost as coarse as those of a temperance hotel, for all the raftered ceiling and the etchings in the dining-room.
It was six miles from the edge of the raftered ice to the first island of the Spotted Horses.
The schoolroom was small, with rough log walls and a raftered ceiling.
Nothing escaped Scotty's eyes, from the festoons of dried apples suspended from the dark raftered ceiling to the pile of axe-handles on the floor in the corner.
The boy sprang up, pitching himself upon him, and was promptly swung over the young man's shoulders, until his feet kicked the raftered ceiling.
The pretty, low timber-raftered house confronted him at the next bend in the road, and presented a charming aspect of tranquillity.
Paul and Edward were in their raftered room, which was better lighted by the fire of logs than by the feeble rush light glimmering on the table.
Penetrating into the interior, we enter a low-browed kitchen with open raftered ceiling and roomy settle beside the cavernous fireplace; its solid old timbers worn to a fine polish by generations of rustic shoulders.
And a most delicious little place it was, with its rafteredceiling and neatly plastered walls.
The ceiling wasraftered and studded with tiny electric light bulbs.
Let those who judge by its every-day rustic quiet visit it on the Saturdays and Sundays of summer and glance at the great oak-raftered dining-room, crowded with cyclists.
Within it is all timbered passages and raftered rooms, pleasantly irregular.
Every corner of the low, raftered room was filled to over-flowing with chairs and tables.
His somewhat wild laugh had not ceased to echo in the low-raftered room nor had Gilda time to recover her composure, before the door was thrown violently open and the Lord of Stoutenburg re-entered, followed by Jan and a group of men.
Once more there was silence in the low-raftered room.
The coffee-room indeed, lighted by two well-polished lamps, which hung from the raftered ceiling, looked cheerful and cosy in the extreme.
Mr. Jellyband did as he was bid--he turned out the quaint old lamp that hung from the raftered ceiling and blew out all the candles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raftered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
