Madison's pen moved on: "Pay to the order of Miss Helena Vail the sum of ten thousand dollars.
Might it not even endanger Miss Vail and the Patriarch himself--subject them, indeed, to attack?
Night is negative; the silence and the vail of darkness shutting out external objects conduce to make the mind negative and susceptible.
The sun forever shines in the heavens, just above the thin vail of clouds, and if the sea does not reflect the starry night, it is because of its agitated surface.
The dearest and nearest may draw with well meaning hands an opaque vail between us and the sun.
Sometimes the paralysis of the muscles prevents vocal expression, but where this is the case, the eyes show the ecstasy which the lifting of the vail from a new world only can give.
He urged, and successfully, that as the insurgents were now harmless, they should not be punished, but that a vail of oblivion should be thrown over all their deeds.
He hurries away in the morning, and ere he returns at evening things have assumed a kind of company aspect; besides, habit throws a vail over many discrepancies a stranger can easily perceive.
When Vail said auf wiedersehen to the telephone business, it had passed from infancy to childhood.
When the doubt and confusion were at their worst, Vail wrote an open letter to his stock-holders, in his practical, farmer-like way.
Bell invented the telephone; Watson constructed it; Sanders financed it; Hubbard introduced it; and Vail put it on a business basis.
Vail and others had noticed that of all the varieties of wire that were for sale, not one was exactly suitable for a telephone system.
He was a member of the historic Vail family of Morristown, New Jersey, which had operated the Speedwell Iron Works for four or five generations.
In 1888 Theodore Vail set on foot a second series of experiments, to see if a cable could be made that was better suited as a highway for the delicate electric currents of the telephone.
Theodore Vail was given a banquet by his old-time friends in the Washington postal service, and toasted as "the Monte Cristo of the Telephone.
Vail arrived very much as Blucher did at the battle of Waterloo--a trifle late, but in time to prevent the telephone forces from being routed by the Old Guard of the Western Union.
Railroad companies offered Vail a salary that was higher and sure, if he would superintend their mail business.
He and Alfred Vail experimented side by side in the making of the telegraph, and Vail eventually received a fortune for his share of the Morse patent.
As Vail built up the young telephone business, they held it from being torn to shreds in an orgy of speculative competition.
Morse had lived for several years at the Vail homestead in Morristown; and it was here that he erected his first telegraph line, a three-mile circle around the Iron Works, in 1838.
Lockwood, who was chosen by Vail in 1879 to establish a Patent Department.
Miss Raynor says so, and Mrs. Vailadds her invitation.
Pleased at the flattering necessity for her presence, Mrs. Vail went from the room with the two girls.
Mrs. Vail insisted on being of the party, and ran briskly off to get her bonnet.
Mrs. Vailsnatched at a chance to talk uninterruptedly to the strange girl.
I only got it out of Mrs. Vail this minute, and then only by threatening her with all sorts of horrors if she didn't tell me.
Zizi leaned forward and gave Mrs. Vail a pleasant if indifferent smile, then sank back to her usual obscurity.
But I don't think it is, my dear," Mrs. Vail persisted.
Zizi, and then Pennington Wise arrived, and we all shamelessly ignored Mrs. Vail and her yarns to listen to his report.
Perhaps Miss Raynor and Mrs. Vailwould prefer to stay here with Miss MacCormack.
Otherwise, I will not vail my crest to Henley, or Robert Bridges, or even William Watson.
And behold the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept, arose.
Thompson's School, when Mrs. Vail brought her to Paris.
Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute forever in your generations.
There might be some theatrical effect given to the agitated scene upon the balcony, but a vail would have to be drawn around the chamber of the mourner, and the more than heroic friend who sits by her in the long watches of the night.
The appearance of the speaker seemed that of a pure intellect, wrought up to its mightiest energies, and brightly shining through the thin and transparent vail of flesh that invested it.
Vail made certain improvements as he worked on his model.
The present instrument is in its mechanical form far more the work of Vail than of Morse.
The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated.
Morse was the inventor, but his partner Alfred Vail had a great share in making the present telegraph.
That same day he wrote to Alfred Vail that the bill "was reached a few minutes before midnight and passed.
Hubbard had advertised Bell's telephone, Sanders had financed it, and now Vail pushed it on the market.
Those were hard times for Vail and the partners back of him.
Vail received the message in Baltimore, and the first demonstration was a complete success.
Vail himself knew little about the telephone, but his cousin, Alfred Vail, had been the friend and assistant of Morse when he was working on his first telegraph.
Then, all but the convention committee being excluded from the telegraph room in Baltimore, message after message was sent over the wire by Vail to Morse and Silas Wright in Washington.
Clapp, the Reverends Mr. Vail and Mr. Morgan, Mrs. A.
Proud dapper Jack, vail bonnet to the bench That represents the person of the king, Or, sirrah, I'll lay thy head before thy feet.
I was appointed to the steamboat squad, and I had not been there any time when detective Vail told me that he collected money from the ship companies and dock occupants or lessees, and that my predecessors always received half.
Letters of congratulation poured in on him from his friends, and, among others, the following from Alfred Vail must have aroused mingled feelings of pleasure and regret.
Morse and Vail and Cornell had worked day and night to get the line in readiness as far as the Junction so that the proceedings of the Whig Convention could be reported from that point.
Although Alfred Vail had severed his active connection with the telegraph, he and his brother George still owned stock in the various lines, and Morse did all in his power to safeguard and further their interests.
He refers to this also in a letter to his brother Sidney of February 23: "Poor Vail is gone.
Fremel, the Director of Light-Houses, who came with Mr. Vail and Captain Perry.
Vail in his private correspondence makes some mention of this.
Smith was in Portland, Maine, attending to his own affairs; Professor Gale was in the South filling a professorship; and Alfred Vail was in Philadelphia.
He gave his testimony with great reluctance, but it was tinged with the bitterness caused by the failure of Vail to do him justice and his apparent conviction that Morse was disingenuous.
On the 11th of May he again cautionsVail about his writing: "Everything worked well yesterday, but there is one defect in your writing.
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Also he said, Bring the vailthat thou hast upon thee, and hold it.
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
But even unto this day when Moses is read, thevail is upon their hearts.
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament: which vail is done away in Christ.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
But as thou didst divide the amorous air Just opposite the Astor, and didst lift That vailof languid lashes to look in At Leary's tempting window--lady!
Too well I know your hearts unwilling To hide beneath the vail a charm-- Too pleased a sparkling eye to roll, And with a neck to thrill the soul Of every swain with love's alarm.
IL vaiL I sue, I oLly wiL FroB her a scorLful frowL, But sooL as I By prayers begiL, She cries O Lo!
Clouds of amber, dreams of gladness, Dulcet joys and sports of youth, Soon must yield to haughty sadness, Mercy holds the vail to Truth.
The week that Ellen Vail Montgomery came to town was a busy one for Miss Larrabee.
From her we get the testimony of a witness who learned directly through her own senses what she stated; her testimony gives forth the ring of unflawed truth, and lifts a vail off from long-hidden mysteries.
Over her head was thrown a vail of delicate texture, and in one hand she carried a handkerchief that looked like a bit of a fleecy cloud.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
