When dawn arrived, Roran woke and lay staring at the whitewashed ceiling while he listened to the slow rasp of his own breathing.

Centered on the magazine was a remote control that I suspected operated the overhead television projector suspended like a spaceship from the whitewashed ceiling.

The stone staircase was narrow and its whitewashed ceiling low.

With his head bowed to avoid the low whitewashed ceiling, Lieutenant-Colonel Thanet stepped through the cellar door and down the wooden staircase.

Only a single dim light burned in the whitewashed ceiling.

The library looked cozy and inviting with its polished wood floor, paneled walls, and whitewashed ceiling.

The floor was blacktop, the whitewashed ceiling lit by fluorescent bulbs and no more than seven feet high.

The huge garage had been built with whitewashed cinder block walls, and a low whitewashed ceiling.

Beneath a vaulted whitewashed ceiling and surrounded by strange blocks and squares which artists said were 'pictures,' the playwright, Vaclav Havel, met the world's press.

Then her head jerked slightly and she looked up at the flaking whitewashed ceiling with a start of surprise.