The merchant without uncrossing his legs, exhibits his silks and coarse cottons to the long draped and vailed figures that group picturesquely about his niche.
In the dusky gloom of that cold, cheerless winter morning the tall, dark form, all dressed in black and closely vailed had glided in like a spirit and taken her seat.
Her usual antidote of a long, rapid walk was followed in the city as well as in the country, and often did people pause and look in wonder after the tall, dark-robed figure that flitted so rapidly by them, whose vailed face no one ever saw.
There we seem to stand more immediately in the vailed presence of the Infinite Majesty, who "laid the foundations of the earth, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
Speak not harshly,--much of care Every human heart must bear; Enough of shadows rudely play Around the very sunniest way; Enough of sorrows darkly lie Vailed within the merriest eye.
They saw him on the cross, While darkness vailed the skies; And when he burst the gates of death, They saw the Conqueror rise.
Come, happy souls, adore the Lamb, Who loved our race ere time began, Who vailed his Godhead in our clay, And in an humble manger lay.
How calm and beautiful the morn That gilds the sacred tomb Where once the Crucified was borne, And vailed in midnight gloom!
When darkness long has vailed my mind, And smiling day once more appears; Then, my Creator!
Thou didst create the stars of night: Yet thou hast vailed in flesh thy light-- Hast deigned a mortal form to wear, A mortal's painful lot to bear.
Like the dark front of some Ethiopian queen, Vailedall ore with gems of red, blew, green, Whose ugly night seem'd masked with days skreen.
If still vailedfrom our sight, What is't but eternall night?
She is as neat as the strictest delicacy demands, and as fashionable as the strictest delicacy permits; and her nymph-like form does not appear to less advantage for being vailed with scrupulous modesty.
A complete despot at home, her arbitrariness is so vailed by correctness of manner, and studied good breeding, that she obtains the credit of great mildness and moderation.
Round them with reverent stops he paced, Nor vailed his eye, nor moved in haste.
He vailed the present good, and magnified the worth of things possessing no power to satisfy the heart.
They perceived some things in a new and clearer light that had been to them vailed in obscurity before.
She said this as of some one absent, and again sank into silence; but continued still to gaze on Violante, whose eyes, vailed by their long fringes, drooped beneath the gaze.
When one learns that issuers from the vailed realms of spirit-land are only earth's emancipated children revisiting their former homes, the cry that devils are coming lacks any startling power.
Vailed from external perceptions, that powerful operator shaped the speech, the actions, and the sufferings of all the impressible ones, whether accused or accusers, at his sole pleasure.
At this moment the Inaccessible Island, which till then had been vailed in thick clouds and mist, appeared frowning above the haze.
This is the Jungfrau, vailed in her dazzling shroud of eternal snow, and I am sure Ruskin was correct when he said: “The seen walls of lost Eden could not have been more beautiful, or more awful round Heaven the gates of sacred death.
You may be as zealous and diligent in good works while a postulant as you possibly could be as a white-vailed novice or a black-vailed nun.
His description corresponded with that given by young Ferguson of the vailed woman, and the bag he had seen given to her by the balcony at Castle Lone on the same night.
He testified to having sold a ticket just after midnight on the night of the murder to a vailed woman, who carried a small but very heavy leathern bag, which she guarded with jealous care.
An experienced detective officer was sent upon the track of the mysterious, vailed woman, with the heavy black bag, who on the night of the murder had taken the midnight train from Lone to London.
And so the mysterious vailed woman had been discovered, and she turns out to be Rose Cameron!
The mysterious vailed woman, supposed to be connected with the robbery and murder at Lone Castle, has been found and arrested.
I loved, too; but I vailed my eyes, and spoke not, as the coffin which contained all I cherished in the world was lowered into the grave.
Usually she was half-vailed by the smoke of her long pipe; but when its wreaths chanced to float aside or grow thin, her dark eyes were fixed upon us with an expression half indifferent and half averse.
The setting sun, half vailed in cloud, yet partially seen through the gray covering of the sky, looked pale and wan, and of evil augury.
But it was quite still, though somewhat busy, and she took her way on, paused for an instant to look up at the sky where the moonbeamsvailed the stars, and then entered the path beneath the overhanging boughs.
Ralph and Hortensia said little, but gazed on the scene before them, with the stars twinkling faintly above, and the wide expanse of Sedgemoor nearly vailed in mist, looking like a dim, uncertain sea.
An hour afterward, Mr. Blake left his office by the back-door, accompanied by the vailed lady.
And still the vailed figure at the window sat rigidly there, uttering no cry, shedding no tears.
And best of all she liked to see the Sisters of Charity glide noiselessly in through some side-door, with vailed faces and bowed heads, and to weave romances about them all the time high mass was going on.
As the door closed upon the tall vailed form, and the two women, united to the same man, were face to face, Father Lennard took his hat to go.
At about eleven he descended the stairs, and opened the back door, which fronted on a dull little street, through which a closely-vailed female figure was daintily picking her way.
The vailed lady was handed out by Mr. Blake; a proceeding which considerably excited the curiosity of some of Mr. Blake's friends, loafing around the platform.
She was not vailedthis time, although a long drab gossamer vail floated back from the pretty jockey-hat she wore, and Laura saw how pale and fagged and spiritless she looked.
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