The Banquet Hall, whose 70-foot-high barrel-vaulted ceiling evokes medieval grandeur, is among the most astonishing spaces.
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The top floor houses the master bedroom, closets, a bathroom and a home office, and has a 15-foot-high ceiling with exposed wood beams.
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Despite the flood, and ceiling-high mold, her pink bungalow on Pauger Street in Gentilly was standing after the storm.
The suspended ceiling was high-risk and needed immediate attention before the fatal fire as it breached safety designs around compartmentation, Mr Walker told the inquest.
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On the white-painted ceiling high above I could see the brown stains where water had found its way in past winters through cracks in the nineteenth-century lead roof and had dripped into buckets and bowls hastily placed on the floor.
Floor-to-ceiling (a very high ceiling, too) windows frame the Strip, receding into the distance like a neon-lit comic book .
Their service works like this: You start with your closing statement and check off whether you have such items as a high-end stove, kitchen cabinets, ceiling fans.
He drew an egg-shaped car with a ceiling high enough to handle his tall frame.
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Up to 12 colors of bright merino wool yarn are pulled from cones dangling from the ceiling into the teal-colored machines' high-speed knitting needles.
Research by Joan Meyers-Levy in 2006, for example, showed that high ceiling height helps us think more broadly and draw more connections between unrelated subjects.
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The home is built on a grand scale, with 40-foot-high ceilings and a foyer that includes busts of famous composers inserted in the ceiling.
The run-up occurred even though a new debt-ceiling agreement was reached in Washington, with market participants still worried about the high deficit and whether the U.S. credit rating will be downgraded yet.
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High vaulted ceilings, huge walls for art, a 2-story entry with skylight and floor to ceiling iron glass doors are part of the details of the design.
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This high-teens number is likely to plummet if negotiations on the fiscal cliff start to resemble the debt ceiling fiasco from August 2011 and tax hikes look more likely than not.
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