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Example sentences for "veiling"

Lexicographically close words:
vehicular; vehy; vei; veil; veiled; veille; veillon; veils; vein; veine
  1. So I lived Long time in misery; to my sleepless eyes No healing slumbers coming; but at length, Zeus and the goddess pitying, I knew Soft rest once more veiling my dreadful gaze In peaceful slumbers.

  2. Her hair fell, loosened, upon her shoulders, veiling her.

  3. Elizabeth, veiling her eyes, as if to hide some hideous object from her view.

  4. Elizabeth, veiling her face with her hand.

  5. He sat as a man might sit at daybreak, brooding down upon a valley whence slowly the veiling mists dissolved.

  6. She looked at him archly, half veiling her dark eyes with their lustrous lashes, while her horse pawed fretfully at the bank.

  7. She looked steadily into his eyes, half veiling her own with their dark lashes.

  8. Mohammed instituted the veiling of women, with corresponding restrictions on domestic intercourse, as a check upon undue sexual licence--the curse of hot climates.

  9. From his veiling clouds Rushes the storm, Ruin and Fear and Death.

  10. Body that veiling brightness, beamest bright; Fair cloud which less we see, than by thee see the light.

  11. Gray willows veiling my beloved Bend above her, As though you would love her, Now clear water shadoweth her whiteness.

  12. In disenveloping the question and conclusion from every wavering consideration and veiling ambiguity, the Carolingian period was creative in this Paschal controversy.

  13. If one possesses the love of God, everything that he undertakes is useful, but if the undertaking is without the love of God, then it is hurtful and the cause fo veiling one’s self from the Lord of the Kingdom.

  14. I beg of God to entirely remove the veiling from thine insight, so that thou mayest become duly cognizant of the teachings of Baha’.

  15. She threw aside the veiling cloud of hair, and in the gleam of the last retreating spirals her face glared out like some old Greek mask of tragedy.

  16. The woman he held struggled from his arms and stared at him wildly in the veiling twilight.

  17. A fair young girl was lying in a deep sleep on a curtained bed, and hovering, crawling over her with a deadly, serpentine grace, was a white figure wrapped in a veiling garment that might have been a shroud.

  18. Towards evening the mist climbs, faintly veiling the tall groves of elms and the piled masses of the city itself.

  19. It is the most probable explanation of the cloistering and veiling of women that it was intended to protect them, especially if they were beautiful, from the evil eye.

  20. The most probable explanation of the customs of veiling and cloistering is that they are due to the superstition of the evil eye.

  21. By veiling the women are excluded from all social intercourse with men and from any share in intellectual interests.

  22. The veiling of women amongst the Arabs was probably due to it.

  23. Her black hair hung about her like a cloud, veiling her from her friend's eyes.

  24. She had been hiding her eyes for many days from all light, veiling them in the darkness of her grief, and the splendour of the man fairly dazzled her.

  25. And ten more spear-lengths would have sufficed," said she, veiling her vexation as best she might.

  26. Skilful in the science of such warfare, Rekamat burst into a storm of sobs, veiling her bright face with her delicate hands, to hide the tears, which were not perhaps forthcoming so freely as she could wish.

  27. A thousand wild impossible longings and fancies filled his brain, but shining calmly through them all, like the moon amidst clouds and storm-wrack veiling a troubled sea, rose the gentle image of the girl he really loved.

  28. There it sat behind the taper and the offerings and the veiling vapor of the incense.

  29. The picture on its wrapper shows a man in green tights, and whose hair is blue, veiling his eyes before a lady in a flame-coloured robe who stares from a distance in a tessellated solitude.

  30. Yet some of us who watched their behaviour saw the fantastic brightness in the streets on Armistice Day only as a momentary veiling of the spectres of a shadow land which now will never pass.

  31. A dense haze lay over the moor, gathering thickly in the hollows, and veiling both the town which we had left and the villages which we were approaching.

  32. The cloud of smoke veiling for an instant the line of galloping steeds and gallant riders drifted slowly aside to show a very different scene.

  33. O Thou who knowest what man's thought enwombs and who givest compensation on the Day of Doom, who can have brought me from amid hanging screens and curtains veiling the Harim rooms and set me down between four tombs?

  34. She looked and bent over the pretty things, her attitude and blush half veiling her admiration and satisfaction, but there was no veiling them when she looked up at Mr. Linden.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veiling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.