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  • It was a fine house in which to live, cool in the summer and warm in the winter, the ceiling-high windows outfitted with ventilated storm shutters, our new veranda a grand place to sit in wood rockers among our potted plants and house pets.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • It was a fine house in which to live, cool in the summer and warm in the winter, the ceiling-high windows outfitted with ventilated storm shutters, our new veranda a grand place to sit in wood rockers among our potted plants and house pets.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • My nostrils fill with the hot piney smell of an Australian Christmas tree, and I am back in my childhood, seeing my father reaching up to the very top of the ceiling-high tree, sighing with satisfaction as he carefully fixes the star.

    Writer Unboxed » 2008 » December 2008

  • The writing by Jacqueline Hoyt and direction by Matt Earl Beesley convey a legitimate sense of concern and skepticism by Pete when he meets the grandfather, sees the "barn" stockpiled nearly ceiling-high with guns, and discusses who the "they" is that the grandfather and his friends think they need to defend against.

    Paul Helmke: The Defenders Takes on the Second Amendment Paul Helmke 2010

  • The writing by Jacqueline Hoyt and direction by Matt Earl Beesley convey a legitimate sense of concern and skepticism by Pete when he meets the grandfather, sees the "barn" stockpiled nearly ceiling-high with guns, and discusses who the "they" is that the grandfather and his friends think they need to defend against.

    Paul Helmke: The Defenders Takes on the Second Amendment Paul Helmke 2010

  • My nostrils fill with the hot piney smell of an Australian Christmas tree, and I am back in my childhood, seeing my father reaching up to the very top of the ceiling-high tree, sighing with satisfaction as he carefully fixes the star.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Ghosts of Christmas Past 2008

  • The system was probably quicker than wandering through the ceiling-high shelves, but what other books might she have found, doing it herself?

    Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • In a newly renovated Carrefour hyper market outside Lyon, shelves stocked ceiling-high and narrow aisles have given way to eye-level yogurt displays, gleaming cosmetics counters and color-coded shopping areas.

    Carrefour Tries a Booster for Tiring Hypermarkets 2010

  • I could see him as a gentleman on a plantation in Georgia in his hunter green library dwarfed by ceiling-high shelves filled with leather-bound books.

    Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010

  • The writing by Jacqueline Hoyt and direction by Matt Earl Beesley convey a legitimate sense of concern and skepticism by Pete when he meets the grandfather, sees the "barn" stockpiled nearly ceiling-high with guns, and discusses who the "they" is that the grandfather and his friends think they need to defend against.

    Paul Helmke: The Defenders Takes on the Second Amendment Paul Helmke 2010

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