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The room, which was small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled up in one corner.
Les Miserables 2008
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At that time his well-known establishment consisted of two dining-halls, at right angles to each other; long, narrow, low-ceiled rooms, looking respectively on the Rue Neuve-deRichelieu and the Place de la Sorbonne.
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His ordeal took place in a large, low-ceiled room illuminated by five very plain, thin, two-armed gas-jets suspended from the ceiling and adorned by posters of prizefights, raffles, games, and the “Simon Pinski Pleasure Association” plastered here and there freely against dirty, long-unwhitewashed walls.
The Titan 2004
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There was a large, low-ceiled room, with clacking, rattling machines at which men in white shirt sleeves and blue gingham aprons were working.
Sister Carrie 2004
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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 comers.
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There were already several groups of people occupying the long plank tables in the low-ceiled, smoky room when Riker and the others came downstairs.
TO STORM HEAVEN ESTHER FRIESNER 1990
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The living-room was a low-ceiled room with French windows leading to the verandah.
An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner
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Shoji next are opened, disclosing often the dull green mosquito net hung from corner to corner of the low-ceiled sleeping rooms.
The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa
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This hall had to be crossed before any of the other rooms could be reached; it was low-ceiled, paneled in oak, and lighted by rather small windows, with stained glass in the lower panes.
A True Friend A Novel Adeline Sergeant
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A part of the tall headboard had been removed so the bed could be used in a low-ceiled room.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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