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Sentences ending with veil

Then--need I assure you of it?--my blood boiled with righteous indignation; but instead of being ashamed of the outrage, he raised his hand to my head and pulled the veil. [10]
Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to cobweb films and gave brief glimpses of the imposing tower as through a veil. [5]
Why then the veil? [10]
Antoinette undid her veil. [9]
But how about the hat and veil? [9]
Then she went slowly up the stairs and put on her hat and coat and veil. [9]
To prevent this she must submit to part from her son or her daughter, and to take the veil. [10]
The veiled lady rose and dropped her veil. [10]
But Medallion turned, opened the door, went out, and let in a woman, who came forward and timidly raised her veil. [11]
From her eyes, on the contrary, this knowledge removed veil after veil. [10]

Short sentences using veil

Tarah----A veil for the head. [11]
She pulled down her veil. [9]
Hylda drew down her veil. [11]

Sentences containing veil two or more times

Then, passing through veil after veil of mystery, it told of a grand Seigneur whose boat was overturned in a whirlpool, and was saved by a little brown diver. [11]

More example sentences with the word veil in them

Indeed, an audacious young praetorian had put out his hand to pull away her veil, but an older officer stopped him. [10]
She could not yet obtain a clear insight into the result of the promise which she had given her son; it seemed as though a veil was drawn over her active mind. [10]
Sobbing bitterly, she wrapped her face in her veil, as though to protect herself from storm and chill. [10]
Still laughing hysterically, with her golden hair streaming about her head, folding her round like a veil which reached almost to her ankles, she came back to the chair at the dressing-table and sat down. [11]
The tall lady, whose noble face and majestic figure were shrouded in a thick veil, was Juliane's mother--and she had offered the sick ropedancer a home in her wealthy household. [10]
But the Ethiopian, who usually came to meet her with words of welcome, took her veil and wraps, and removed her shoes, was absent. [10]
Old grave-haunting Kusaja, who had been dragged away from the sepulchre of her kindred, was sitting in a cart with other infirm folk, waving her veil and joining in the hymn of praise Elkanah and Abiasaph, the sons of Korah, had begun. [10]
Hastily pushing the white hair back from her brow, she threw a veil over it, and hurried through the camp to the spot where the election was taking place. [10]
It was only when we had got into the carriage and started for the house and she turned to me her face from which the veil had been thrown back that I realized what a sublime meaning it all had for her. [9]
A little later, when the veil had lifted, it became a mirror for the hills and crags, the blue reaches of the sky. [9]
He felt that when the next test came the old man would either break completely, and sink down into another and everlasting forgetfulness, or tear away forever the veil between himself and his past, and emerge into a long-lost life. [11]
Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. [5]
Her thick, slightly waving hair framed the lovely oval of her face under the veil, and Alexander agreed with his sister when she expressed the wish that she might but once see this rarely beautiful creature. [10]
Brent sat silently watching her, for she had raised her veil in saying good-by to Mrs. Kame, and--as the chauffeur was proceeding slowly--had not lowered it. [9]
But idle lamenting was of as little use here as at any other time; so she resolutely drew her veil closer round her head and called to her brother, "Wait here till I return! [10]
And while she was gone to--remove her veil and hat, Peter looked around it. [9]
Could all the virgin population of ---- receive and retain these sentiments, he would continually have to veil his crest before them. [14]
Deftly dropping her veil, she picked up a riding whip that lay on the railing and descended the stairs to the courtyard. [9]
The hat and veil, said Madame, with a simper, were sixty dollars. [9]
She dropped her veil, and for a long space was silent while they rapidly threaded the traffic, and at length turned into upper Fifth Avenue, skirting the Park. [9]
My hair--oh, a veil will cover it! [10]
Baton, hat, and veil skimmed by and disappeared, and the crash of the rocks--which I had started--as they fell on to the glacier, told how narrow had been the escape from utter destruction. [5]
For when the veil no longer hid that face from my gaze, I felt as though the gods had revealed a mystery to me which till now only the immortals had been permitted to know. [10]
Melissa drew her veil closer and clung more tightly to her brother, for a sound of singing and wild cries, which she had heard behind her for some time, was now coming closer. [10]
Sometime shall the veil between The things that are and that might have been Be folded back for our eyes to see, And the meaning of all shall be clear to me. [11]
She lowered her veil and looked him in the eyes. [11]
At this point, under most circumstances, I would close the doors and draw the veil of privacy before the chamber where the birth which we call death, out of life into the unknown world, is working its mystery. [6]
It related only to what was to happen to him in Deception Pass; and he could no more lift the veil of that mystery than tell where the trails led to in that unexplored canyon. [13]
Your Ismene scorns to veil her face, and no doubt it is a very pretty one to look upon--you have trained her mind like that of a man, and so she seeks to go her own way. [10]
If Eva refused to take the veil, would not her kind friend be justified in charging her with unequalled ingratitude? [10]
If she wants to take the veil later, who can prevent it, but the abbess herself advises that she should have at least a glimpse of the world before leaving it. [10]
Your nephew is to marry her sister; let her be swallowed up--a shame behind the veil, the sweet litany of the cloister. [11]
But Mary, faithful to its lightest word, Kept in her heart the sayings she had heard, Till the dread morning rent the Temple's veil, And shuddering Earth confirmed the wondrous tale. [6]
She helped Orion to fold her veil twice over her face, and did not thrust him aside when he whispered in her ear: "Let us see if a kiss cannot be sweet even through all that wrapping!--Now, come. [10]
You would have to appear among clouds behind a transparent veil, and the people would hail you with acclamations or even raise their hands in adoration. [10]
For at such times it is the woman who scans the veil of the future. [9]
He had less time to read, less time to think, to scan the veil of his future. [9]
And while she thus spoke her great eyes had a marvellous clear and glorious light, and when I looked in her face wrapped in the veil of her mourning for her father, my spirit grew solemn, as though I were in church. [10]
She gazed on this circle, including all she loved best, with anxious, perplexed looks, and at last, recognizing them one by one, passed her hand across her pale fore head as if to remove a veil, smiled at each, and closed her eyes once more. [10]
Not snow-clad mountains, these, yet they climbed high enough toward the sky to meet the clouds and veil their foreheads in them. [5]
Closely enveloped in the veil which Euryale had placed on her head, Melissa passed from room to room, keeping near to the philosopher. [10]
Some time shall the veil between The things that are, and that might have been Be folded back for our eyes to see, And the meaning of all be clear to me. [11]
It is like the uniform to the soldier or the veil to the nun--a sign of separation and devotion. [4]
The veil between the two, which for one sacred moment had seemed about to lift, was fallen now, leaded and weighted at the bottom. [11]
Cleopatra had interrupted the torrent of his enthusiastic speech with many a question, meanwhile endeavouring to loose the veil wound about her head; but the little hands, unaccustomed to the task, failed. [10]
The veil and the spiked alpenstock are the signs of peril. [4]
When Charley entered, the room was only lighted by two candles, and Paulette's face was hidden by a veil, but Charley observed the tremulousness of the figure and the nervous decision of manner. [11]
The verdure of the Park was freshened to an incredible brilliancy by the dew, a thin white veil of mist was spread over the mirror of the waters, the trees flung long shadows across the turf. [9]
Involuntarily she removed the lower veil from her face and raised her hand in prayer. [10]
Yashmak----A veil for the lower part of the face. [11]
The veil of the future concealed what might be in store for the beloved couple; but he resolved to keep his eyes open on Dion's behalf and to request Archibius to do the same. [10]
The drops pelted the chocolate water into froth, and a blue veil hid the distant bluffs beyond the Illinois bottom-lands. [9]
In a flash the boat had rounded to, the mainsail fell, and a veil of spray hid the actors of her drama. [9]
No one wore that look who desired aught which must be hidden under the veil of darkness. [10]
She believed, now, that he had gone away from her for all time, that the veil of limitless space was set between, them. [9]
She seemed taller than ever, and very beautiful in her veil and white satin gown and the diamonds Ham had given her; very much mistress of herself, quite a contrast to Ham, who made no secret of his elation. [9]
Nor can I take up a philanthropic scheme, though I honour philanthropy; and voluntarily and sincerely veil my face before such a mighty subject as that handled in Mrs. Beecher Stowe's work, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin. [14]
They watched the sun spread out his banners, presently veil his head in them, and sink below the world. [11]
At the chancel steps she raised her veil, and a murmur of recognition and wonder ran through the church. [11]
With a swift step, and drying her eyes from time to time on her peplum as she went, she returned to her own room to fetch a veil, without which she dared not venture so late into the streets. [10]
It rises and spreads slowly, till the curtain of night becomes the veil of morning, white and kind. [11]
The electric arcs, splotches in the veil, revealed on the Common phantom trees; and in the distance, against the blurred lights from the Warren Street stores skirting the park could be seen phantom vehicles, phantom people moving to and fro. [9]
For a moment so, in silence, and then she rose to her feet, and pulled down over her face the veil she wore. [11]
Yonder, as if slumbering under a blue veil, lay the Calabrian coast, while nearer and more distant, but always noiselessly, ships and boats, with gently swelling sails, glided over the water. [10]
She was between sixty and seventy years old; her face, framed, as it were, into a picture by the lace veil, was exquisitely symmetrical in its form, intellectual, kind and benevolent in its expression. [10]
Selene shrugged her shoulders, and drawing her veil round her head, she exclaimed, with a glance of annoyance at her sister: "It is high time! [10]
Miss Vance"; and she threw back her veil, showing her face wan and agitated in the dark folds. [8]
She knew what she had to say; and she was about to loosen a portion of her veil from her face that she might look Paula steadfastly in the eyes, when Orion came back to fetch her into the hall where the Court was sitting. [10]
As for Antoinette, she glanced neither right nor left through her veil, but rode unmindful of the way, heedless of heat and discomfort, erect, motionless save for the easy gait of her horse. [9]
The sun was setting above the ragged line of forest, and a blue veil was spreading over the tumbling waters. [9]
Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? [2]
Frau Rosalinde rarely saw the twin sons of her daughter Isabella, who took the veil after her husband's death to pray for his sorely imperilled soul. [10]
There was a sad seriousness about her mouth, and a slight cloud, which only he could see, seemed to veil the usually calm, clear and cheerful expression of her eyes. [10]
She wore a robe of violet-blue, embroidered with silver, and over her snow-white hair lay a long veil of delicate lace, woven in Egypt, the ends of which were wound round her neck and tied in a large bow beneath her chin. [10]
She did not reply to that, letting down her veil impatiently, with a deftness that characterized all her movements. [9]
He recognised her plainly, in spite of the veil which covered the back of her head and the lower portion of her face. [10]
The hour, the place, the anticipation of the lifting of the veil from an Oriental and ancient art, gave them a titillating feeling of adventure, of a moral hazard bravely incurred in the duty of knowing life, penetrating to its core. [4]
Over the plaintive pink and golden glow of sunset was slowly being drawn a pervasive silver veil of moonlight. [11]
A veil fell over the back of her head and she sat gazing into her lap as if she were absorbed in prayer; her hands were folded and held a cross. [10]
If, on the other hand, Barbara would decide to take the veil, an arrangement could easily be made for him to hear her often, and her singing might then marvellously beautify the old age, so full of suffering and destitute of pleasure, that awaited him. [10]
There was but one question: might there be still other enchantments, _unknown_ to Merlin, which could render Sir Sagramor's veil transparent to me, and make his enchanted mail vulnerable to my weapons? [5]
Presently the face of the sun shines through the veil, and men's bodies grow warm with active being, and the world stirs with busy life. [11]
The whole coast of the bay is in a sort of obscuration, thicker than an Indian summer haze; and the veil extends almost to the top of Vesuvius. [4]
A thick veil of gauze inwrought with gold hung from her little tiara, and interlaced with this was the blue and white band of the Achaemenidae. [10]
The passionate stirring of a soul, whether it be the result of joy or of sorrow, among us moderns covers its features with a veil, which it had no need of among the ancients. [10]
A misty veil obscured the clear, searching gaze she had kept steadfastly upon the purple slope and the dim lines of canyons. [13]
There is probably not one traveler in a hundred who gets among the ice and snow-fields where he needs a veil or green glasses: but it is well to have it on the hat; it looks adventurous. [4]
Deep silence, yet no peace reigned above them: the high wind now piled the dark clouds into shapeless masses, anon severed that grey veil and drove the torn fragments far asunder. [10]
Everything, far and near, is covered by a thick veil, yet one feels that there is bright sunshine behind it. [10]
You, who know my life from its beginning, tell me--must I veil my head in shame when the question is asked, what powers of intellect, what talents industry, and desire for good Cleopatra displayed? [10]
She was dressed much as usual, excepting that she wore a thick veil, turned aside, but ready to conceal her features. [6]
She had clung more closely to him than the woman to whom he owed his life, for his mother had deserted him to take the veil in the convent of the Sisters of St. Clare, but her maid-servant Ursel would not part from him. [10]
Beside his bed Margaret Vance was kneeling; her veil was thrown back, and her face was lifted; she held clasped between her hands the hand of the dying man; she moved her lips inaudibly. [8]
Grief for her loss, repentance for not having devoted herself faithfully enough to her, and the hope that in the convent her prayers might obtain a special place in the world beyond for the beloved sleeper, now revived her wish to take the veil. [10]
He was now looking east at an immense round boxed corner of canyon down which tumbled a thin, white veil of water, scarcely twenty yards wide. [13]
Then, raising her little clinched hand menacingly, she muttered through her set teeth: "Let him try even to touch my veil with his fingers! [10]
The day was like our New England Indian summerthough the trees were still heavy with leaves--and a gossamer-blue veil of haze stained the hills between which the shining river ran. [9]
It thundered, it lightened, the foundations of the temple shook--but she no longer looked for the final crash; she had ceased to believe in the majesty, the power and the purity of the divinity behind the veil. [10]
What shall we know of it, we who have lifted Up the dark veil, done sowing and reaping; What shall we care if our burdens be shifted, Waking or sleeping? [11]
The mere distant jets, sparkling up through an intervening gossamer veil of vapor, seemed miles away; and the further the curving ranks of fiery fountains receded, the more fairy-like and beautiful they appeared. [5]

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