11.   Theater companies covet old banks because they often have no columns obstructing the floor space and have soaring ceilings.

12.   We ate under a soaring ceiling made of weathered wood.

13.   Yes, there are villas with private lap pools and personal butlers as well as magnificent suites with soaring ceilings.

14.   Bush and most of his immediate predecessors gathered under the soaring ceiling of the cathedral.

15.   She has constructed a nifty wooden setting of soaring ceilings, too, an all-purpose Renaissance environment that at least seems authentically old world.