It is the last night of an old year--la veille du jour de l'an.
She was found weeping one day on the veille because she was no longer able to get her shoulders out of the window to use the clothes-lines stretching to her neighbour's over the way.
It was nearly an hour later before réveille went in the British lines and the Lincolns made us think of our sins and forswear all sleep by playing their awakening air, "Old Man Barry.
It was in a perfect downpour of rain at four o'clock in the morning, that réveille had been sounded.
On the day following our arrival here, soldiers and citizens from the town were flocking into our camp in droves, from réveille till taps, eager to learn from us the particulars of our recent raid.
Now, in a room full of people, she was standing on a veille flourished with posies of broom and wildflowers, and Philip was there beside her, and he was holding her hand, and they were waiting and waiting for some one who never came.
By the time he reached the doorway, however, Jean had retreated to the veille by the chimney behind Maitresse Aimable, who sat in a great stave-chair mending a net.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veille" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
