A raftered ceiling. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
There seemed five exits from the lofty, raftered room. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
Knut the Great sat on his throne-seat in his raftered hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
The older gypsey glanced again about the low raftered loft. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
A mast came through the raftered ceiling, and beside it was a hatch. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
It was a dim, mouldy, melancholy old room, with a low, raftered ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
It was their working hour; they sat at opposite ends of the raftered granary. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
They sat in a waterfront tavern, wood-paneled, rough-raftered, dark and smoky. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
He straightened and stared around the great room, raftered with logs overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Hunt]
Looking closer about the room, the low-raftered ceilings of an older time brought another thought to his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
The room into which the elevator entered was large, low-raftered and lighted by a group of candles at the far end. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
It was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves, large, lofty, and heavily raftered with huge balks of age-blackened oak. From Wordnik.com. [The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars] Reference
Deep inside there was a hollow hall, raftered with dead branch and bramble, and roofed with the first leaves and shoots of spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Inside was a wainscoted rough-raftered taproom, fronds strewn on its clay floor, dimly lit by sconced candles and the flames on the hearth. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
His wife received the visitors hospitably, in a snug little room, with a raftered ceiling, and windows which looked like windows in a cabin on board ship. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
Max took his guest down the main staircase to the great entrance hall, with its high raftered roof, and stone floor half covered by valuable Oriental rugs. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Chest] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
In such a cottage, the living-room has a raftered ceiling, the sidewalls, woodwork, settles by the fireplaces, open bookcases and floor, are all stained dark walnut. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
The going was, for the first hour, over rough, raftered ice. From Wordnik.com. [A Negro Explorer at the North Pole] Reference
A kitchen-parlour, raftered and paved with stone, formed the ground - floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea] Reference
His house was large and roomy, with spacious walls and high-raftered ceilings. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II] Reference
It had a long low interior, with a heavily raftered roof, and an earthen floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Unaga] Reference
We could not go on until either the lead had frozen or until it had raftered shut. From Wordnik.com. [A Negro Explorer at the North Pole] Reference
It was six miles from the edge of the raftered ice to the first island of the Spotted Horses. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
Silence reigned in the low-raftered room on the ground floor of the house in the Rue Dauphine. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
The movement of the ice increased, and the rumbling and roaring, as it raftered, was deafening. From Wordnik.com. [A Negro Explorer at the North Pole] Reference
A large room with a raftered roof supported by a central wooden pillar, round which a table runs. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I] Reference
Just in front of it, from the tall, raftered ceiling above, there hangs a small brass lamp, with a green. From Wordnik.com. [I Will Repay] Reference
Her attention was all given to her surroundings -- to the old raftered room, with its glowing fire and deep-set windows. From Wordnik.com. [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I] Reference
He raised his great hands and brought them down in a burst of chords that shook the little room and the raftered ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I] Reference
Lights were produced, and we saw a deep raftered cavity between the floor of this room and the ceiling of the room beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
The wash-tubs and cooking-stove stood at one end of the long, low-raftered room, the cabinet organ and violins at the other. From Wordnik.com. [Vesty of the Basins] Reference
It was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves, large, lofty, and heavily raftered with huge baulks of age-blackened oak. From Wordnik.com. [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference
The pretty, low timber-raftered house confronted him at the next bend in the road, and presented a charming aspect of tranquillity. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Power] Reference
Light filtered dimly between the tiles, and many bales and sacks lay upon the raftered floor like huge monsters in a huge, dim cave. From Wordnik.com. [Privy Seal His Last Venture] Reference
Sitting with George in this low-raftered kitchen while his pretty wife bustled comfortably to and fro, we talked and grew acquainted. From Wordnik.com. [Peregrine's Progress] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Negro Explorer at the North Pole] Reference
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