Raftered

It was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves, large, lofty, and heavily raftered with huge balks of age-blackened oak. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The early morning sun slanting in showed a cool, square-built room with a flagged stone floor, a raftered ceiling hung with bunches of drying herbs, and a heavy wooden table, the surface scarred and worn smooth and dark with age. ❋ Anna Elliott (2010)

Then he glanced upward to the round, raftered roof. ❋ Maritta Wolff (2009)

To prevent a raftered dormer from seeming too rustic, disrupt it with some decorous touches: a crisp chevron-patterned rug and an Asian-inspired platform bed. ❋ Thom Filicia (2008)

Their “BBQ house” has the wood slats, high raftered ceilings and down home charm of a drying barn that reminded me of the bar set from Road House, after the Swayze induced cleanup. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At last, the doors slid open, and a steadily increasing stream of women and men flowed into the building through the entry chamber and on into the high-raftered hall where the council met. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His house was large and roomy, with spacious walls and high-raftered ceilings. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Our quarters consisted of a small barnlike room with raftered ceiling, a floor with holes big enough to slip your foot through into the courtyard, whitewashed walls, and a small latticed window about two feet square near the ceiling. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ranunculus stepped inside and led us behind the counter and up some narrow wooden stairs to a raftered room, where Salinator was waiting, along with another man, the sequester, whose name I never learned. ❋ Robert Harris (2006)

The light on that November afternoon was pale and bluish, dropping in shafts from the unglazed windows just beneath the raftered roof. ❋ Robert Harris (2006)

I dropped alarmingly toward the ground-hadn't had a running takeoff, which is always best-but surged upward again with the next stroke and rose toward the high raftered ceiling. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In those continuous courts and alleys, where the women worked, smoke from each little forge rose and dispersed into the wind with strange alacrity; amongst the women, too, there was that same eagerness, for the sunshine had crept in and was making pale all those dark-raftered, sooted ceilings which covered them in, together with their immortal comrades, the small open furnaces. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Person 1: C-ya [laterz] [Person 2]: Rafter [buddy]! ❋ Retsaw (2006)

Hi mate, you [feeling down]? Do you need [a rafter], there's [a 50/50] chance it'll help. ❋ Blindgoat (2017)

[Buy a] builders account or I'll [lock] [OT] again. ❋ RSimmons (2005)

"Another fucking rafter [came] in a [floating] [taxi], bro." ❋ N. L. Soap (2006)

Ay; onto that lad with the [huge head]....its [laffin] mate its just [Rafter]. ❋ LloydG90 (2007)

[Rafter] is so bad ass that Satan hails him dude you totally pulled [a Rafter] on that one Did you just impale an angel with a giant cross covered in sulfuric acid and then [poop in his mouth]...wow sounds like something [rafter] would do. ❋ Anarquista (2010)

[Person A]: let's watch [Packed to the Rafters]! ❋ Asparagus1000 (2009)

She's got tits like [funfair] balloons, a waist that can hide behind a [flagpole] and an ass that could turn [the washington monument] to sand - she's stacked to the rafters man. ❋ Idunnit (2004)

Person 1) Wow... I can't believe it, we managed to ditch [Barfield]. Now to spend some quality time with the amigos without jokes being undermined etc. Barfield) *sprints along [rafters] like a Shinobi, [darting] from the shadows with unprecedented stealth* Hey guys, what are you all doing in town? You told me you all had the plague... You weren't tryin to ditch me, were you? Person 2) Jesus, you're such a fuckin' rafters ninja ❋ Andy Hutchings (2008)

Michelle: k im really [bowing] out this time mateso...[hugs and kisses]. [Pat rafter] :D x Ash: What the hell?! Speak English you silly Irish pikey! ❋ The Real Johnny Doe (2010)