In the veiled woman each feared what was worse than mere death--scandal!
Garrettson, who was accompanied by a veiled woman.
The aid must be veiled and hidden, and appear to come from commerce so that we can always deny it.
It is true that his good qualities are often somewhat veiled by legerete d'esprit and defaut de tenue.
As soon as the diffidence that veiled his first introduction wore away, he called forth his peculiar powers of pleasing, and Edith was not insensible to their fascination.
By the unutterable anguish of that moment, I knew the delusion that had veiled my motives.
As their drapery floated in the wind, and their faces were veiled with the “Lisam,” it was frequently difficult to [p.
Party speeches were delivered, which clothed the question in cant, andveiled its simple meaning in a woven wind of words.
We consigned her to the oblivious tomb with reluctance; and when I turned from her grave, Janus veiled his retrospective face; that which gazed on future generations had long lost its faculty.
But though impenetrably veiled from him, his public office permitted her to become acquainted with all his actions, his daily course of life, even his conversation.
The eyes of Idris were closed: but Clara perceived a sudden change in the appearance of our eldest darling; his heavy lids veiled his eyes, an unnatural colour burnt in his cheeks, his breath became short.
Poverty was the cloud that veiled her excellencies, and all that was good in her seemed about to perish from want of the genial dew of affection.
Veiled for ever to the world's callous eye must be the transport of that moment.
In the feeling communicated to me by the sight of one struck by the plague, I forgot the events that had excited me so strongly in London; new and more painful prospects, by degrees were cleared of the mist which had hitherto veiled them.
Shall draw the robe of honor from your deeds, With which thy arch-hypocrisy has veiled The raging flames of lawless, secret lust.
Veiled from each holier eye repose The realms where midnight wraps the dead, And, while the Stygian river flows, No living footstep there may tread!
Oh, would it had Been veiled from me in everlasting darkness!
While thus they converse held, they chanced to stand Within the precincts of a lonely temple, Where a veiled statue of gigantic size The youth's attention caught.
The noisy chase is lulled asleep, day's clamor dies afar, And through the sweet and veiled air in beauty comes the star.
It was scarcely three o'clock, and everything was still veiled in dusky twilight.
Now fling aside the mantle of still night, Which hitherto hath veiled your silent march, And your dread presence to the foe proclaim.
He veiledhis own ambition beneath the interests of the crown, and made the breach between the nation and the king incurable, because it would render him indispensable to the latter.
Compare that death, almost furtive, half veiled by the murk of battle, with the august spectacle which the Convention is now about to offer to the world, before God and man!
His physiognomy, evil, insidious or beaming in turn, was above all remarkable for its caustic smile and its half-veiled glance, resembling that of a serpent.
At the moment the government was unable to do more, though recognizing the veiled hostility of Europe which thus manifested itself in a movement on what may be called the right flank of the republic.
Archie advanced toward the taller of the two women, who was veiledand carried her head very firmly.
While following her he was joined by Jack, and a little later Ike, who, as has been intimated, was observant, saw a man turn to follow the veiled lady.
We write girl, for the veiled lady was but a mere girl, as revealed when her veil was removed.
The boys started to walk up the street, when they met a veiled lady who was walking rapidly along.
There are plenty of veiled ladies knocking around every day.
Then Ike advanced toward the veiled girl and said: "Excuse us, miss, but he got just what he deserved.
As he was at a distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before him only an agitation of shadows.
It was from the sewer of Munster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge.
It remained, however, gentle and veiledin an ineffable half-light.
Her beauty astonished him; in this twilight of the theatre it glowed and burned like a veiled star.
He felt secure and sheltered--as though the wonder and the mystery veiled something that menaced joy in him, something that concealed a notion of attack.
He detected a touch even of barbaric vanity, and this singular touch of the barbaric veiled the tenderness.
Tom, knowing that her words veiled other meanings, pretended not to notice.
The difference in the two tones she used was too obvious to be missed by any man who heard them--the veiled exasperation and--the tenderness.
Amid the intensity of his human emotions, meanwhile, he lost sight of any subtler hints, if indeed they offered: he saw no veiled eastern visions any more, divined no psychic warnings.
When Johannes turned away and looked toward the mountains, now veiled in leaden mists, a marvelous double rainbow, with its brilliant colors, was spanning the ashen land.
There was a pause in which the voice of the beautiful speaker broke, while her eyes were veiled in the tears that she was making an effort to repress.
If Jesus had been charged with the delivery of an exclusive Creed, as the only instrument of Salvation, would he have veiled it from the eyes of those he came to save?
It is vain to tell us of an infinite God veiled behind this suffering and sweetness, the mind repels it, despite of all the efforts of theology.
This is plain Unitarianism, veiledbehind the thinnest disguise of speech.
Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him.
The humility of demeanor hardly veiled the offended dignity of her approach.
Baffled, the priest left the house; veiled censure was on his lips; open disobedience and contempt on the part of O'Iwa.
He stood still a moment with veiled admiration in his eyes, and this was not altogether surprising in one who had dwelt for the most part far remote from civilization in the lonely bush.
Then when the glitter of lights filled the building as the curtain went down she looked about her with veiled expectancy.
Now and then a veiledallusion reached her, and at last she glanced inquiringly at her hostess.
At last they all vanished, and I came to a splendid lighted hall, in the midst of which stood my heart's loved one, veiled in white, and immovable as a statue.
Nevers at first refuses to see any one; but on learning that it is a veiled lady he changes his mind and goes out, after laughingly announcing that he is thus constantly sought by handsome women.
Teeth flashed in a nervous smile and the man's eyes veiled themselves furtively.
As from some iceberg veiled in fog came to him the cold feel of malignity moving to some unguessed purpose.
He joked and laughed with theveiled serving-women, he played with the children when they began to drift out to the gutters, he even cast a gay remark or two into the air for the women who stood on the roofs gossiping.
With that she shot me a curiously veiled glance and turned away, holding up her hand as if to ask me to listen to the last strains of the music which her own vehement chatter had already spoiled for everybody who cared to listen to it.
Unlimited power was still clothed and half veiled in the old republican forms and expressions; and the recollection of Caesar's fate was too present to the mind of the cautious Augustus, for him ever to neglect those forms and usages.
Now there arose the soft breath and gentle whistling of a tender air: in this, Elias recognized the immediate presence of his God, and in awe and reverence heveiled his face.
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